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Robert Scoble posted a message

“I invested a lot of time this year in FriendFeed and Twitter instead of my blog. Was that the right decision?”

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I think so. - Robert Scoble

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Half of it was right. - Chris White

Time will tell, but I think it was correct decision. - imran

It's made you one of my favorite bloggers, if that makes you feel any better about it. If you weren't heavy on the social exploration I probably wouldn't read. - Daniel J. Pritchett

what outcome were you going for? - zach

From my perspective, yes. It's a much more interactive and broader experience for all. - Kevin C. Tofel

The right decision from which perspective, Robert? Did you increase "eyeballs?" Revenue? Both? Other? - Mark VandenBerg

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Crosstown Traffic: Adobe and Microsoft trading spaces

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Adobe is working on an Office Suite. Adobe has the developers, but wants the Enterprise. Microsoft has the Enterprise but wants Adobe's developers and wants to take the oxygen away from Acrobat and Adobe's Office dreams. - Robert Scoble

Listening to the initial part of the Adobe briefing. I like what the CTO is saying about different screen sizes -- about widgets running several to a page on a large screen; one at a time on a phone. I think we're moving toward decks of cards rather than pages. You can fan them out or leave them in a stack. - Amyloo

Guy in the comments on TCIT mentions Adobe pushing php. They've always allowed for it. But makes you wonder if they are still pretending Cold Fusion is going anywhere but away. - Amyloo

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His legs are dangling! - Mona N.

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Robert Scoble posted a message

“Just landed in San Francisco and Twitter is down. Blame Scoble.”

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it's funnier when other people say it :) - Christopher Galtenberg

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Hey Robert broke twitter ... no wait, it's just twitter's way of saying, "Welcome Home"~!! - Susan Beebe

What's Alex done to Twitter? Alex? Robert is saying you broke twitter..... - WorldofHiglet

I really don't think it's your fault..... this time. :) - JCLeftie

http://friendfeed.com/e/4df2dc... - Tanju Yıldız (mavisland)

Awesome blog title -> "Twitter went down as soon as Robert Scoble landed in SF" - AJ Batac

Yeah. Nice work Scoble ;) I bet you brought some Chinese twitter virus back home - Dennis Bjørn Petersen via twhirl

And, being that you're Scoble, you're still able to Tweet about it. - DocileWalnut

Another Blame Scoble meme? - Roberto Bonini

It went down right as I ran my auto-follow script for SocialToo - it's probably my fault ;-) - Jesse Stay

Googel reader having problems as well... you must not have read all your feeds and now they have an out of memory error - Ian D. Nock via twhirl

See I cannot even type properly.. must be Scoble - Ian D. Nock via twhirl

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Dave Winer posted a message on Twitter

“New blog post: Is the panic over Detroit real? http://bit.ly/KsPX”

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Dave, this post hops over a lot of the parroting of pundits that usually fills the blogs. It has stunned me that the same folks who felt the world would end if Wall Street companies that pay hundreds of hustlers millions of dollars would fail, however, an industry that pays millions of workers hundreds of dollars can go down without serious consequences. - Phil Boiarski

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Not to mention that GM's brands are very popular in China, so by killing GM we'd be removing one of the few things that gets money to come back here from China (there aren't very many left). - Robert Scoble

GM has made many, many mistakes. Why should we let them stay in business? - Tyler Hurst via twhirl

Tyler: they have made many, many right decisions, too. My Saturn Aura is a great car (it is made by GM). When I was in Shanghai I saw GM cars all over the place. They employ something like seven million people around the world. So you are ready to put seven million people on the street? Why don't we put you and your business on the street? I'm sure you make mistakes every day too. - Robert Scoble

Chapter 11 doesn' have to put people on the street, as long as the govt provides a guarantee on DIP financing. See today's NYT Sorkin piece for details:-) - Francine Hardaway via IM

Yes, but my business isn't going bankrupt. Hey, I drive a GM car, I don't want them to go under, but why should my tax dollars save them? - Tyler Hurst via twhirl

Tyler: because if you put those people out of work they'll cost you tax dollars and you won't get anything in return then. - Robert Scoble

The bailout money would be better spent on assitance to those who are impacted... re-training, relocation assistance, etc. Now (NOT, I meant NOT) wishing for GM go go away - but they have big issues that NEED to be addressed... not patched over (again). - Brian Roy

But what would I be getting for a bailout? If it's anything like the banks, it seems like more of the same! Will GM diversify, streamline and stop making gaudy SUVs? If they are to be bailed out, someone better should be running the company. Where's the hybrid cars? Why aren't they making more of them? - Tyler Hurst via twhirl

Tyler: I agree with you, mostly. It's just that if you dump tons of people on the street to teach a corporation a lesson it increases the problems greatly. You also aren't going to find jobs for many of these workers, even after retraining. They simply aren't there. So, short term, I'm all for keeping the jobs going. - Robert Scoble

Tyler, that would be the point behind any kind of bailout. GM is told build hybrids and more fuel efficient cars in order to get the money. Use the bailout money as an incentive to restructure the industry. - Paul

Everyone keeps assuming all these people will get "dumped on the street", but I'm not sure I believe that. Will they shut down entirely? No. So how are 7mill losing their jobs? - ♫ Rahsheen™

"GM has made many, many mistakes." The mistakes were made in design and product decisions, not on the assembly line. Those who made decisions to manufacture Suburbans and ignore hybrid technology should suffer, not the guy bolting it together. And we'll either pay in "bailout" (which we might get back) or in unemployment benefits and other safety net spending (which we won't). - John Craft

A bailout is just a bandage. If it's not fixing the real problems, then why do it? Won't we go through this again? Instead of a bailout, why doesn't the gov't buy the damn company, fire all the upper management and subsidize sustainable/hybrid techology? - Tyler Hurst via twhirl

Hopefully there are enough STRONG rules attached to the bailout to force both the execs and the unions to change direction and start making good cars for the long term. a straight bailout will just prolong the business-fail-as-usual mentality that exudes from Detroit. - Glenn Batuyong

Rasheen, at some point another manufacturer (e.g. Honda) might buy some GM assets (factory). But the delay, and uncertainty, will further erode confidence. No one wants to prop up "business as usual" - the goal is to ease (and demand) the transition. - John Craft

Tyler: if you put all those workers on the street you'll have far more pain for far longer. Yes, we should get something in return, but I don't live in an ideal world and I don't always get what I want. - Robert Scoble

"why doesn't the gov't buy the damn company, fire all the upper management and subsidize sustainable/hybrid techology?" - Isn't that essentially what's happening? Have you read the bills introduced in the House and Senate? - John Craft

Rahsheen, any layoffs by GM, Ford or Chrysler is going to have ripple effect. It will cause layoff in their suppliers also. So the layoffs are going to be a lot larger then just GM..... - Paul

John- yes, but this isn't a takeover, it's a bailout. Just as Glenn said earlier, there must be STRONG rules to make sure this isn't just a handout. - Tyler Hurst via twhirl

Let them burn. The airlines had to restructure so will the auto makers. Enough with the fear mongering already. Fucking lemmings. - Leather Donut

CNNMoney weighs on on what the :real" problems are - http://money.cnn.com/galleries... - Bill Pennington via twhirl

Leather: where do you work? Can we say the same thing about your business? I'm sure your management hasn't made every best decision either. Plus, next year lots of businesses will lay people off. Should we cheer if you are one of those? - Robert Scoble

"there must be STRONG rules to make sure this isn't just a handout." Agreed. The House plan is pretty strong. http://www.freep.com/article/2... - John Craft

I think we can all agree that American automakers relied too heavily on SUVs. But what's the solution? - Tyler Hurst via twhirl

Tyler: that's because of our emphasis on quarterly results. I sure wish our markets would reward long-term thinking rather than worrying about this quarter and next. Capitalism itself brought us these problems. - Robert Scoble

Tyler: the solution is to take 10% of oil industry profits and put those into developing newer cars that'll get us off of oil. But that never will fly past the lobbyists. - Robert Scoble

+100 Robert - the short term thinking of today's day trader/hedge fund market create many of our current problems. - Brian Roy

True. Side note, has everyone here read Hot, Flat and Crowded? Fascinating. Great look toward what we SHOULD be doing. - Tyler Hurst via twhirl

Tyler: I watched Thomas Friedman give a speech while in Shenzhen, China. I saw everything he was talking about right outside of my window. This is the #1 problem for the next 20 years. By far. Friedman's work is very important, he just travels a lot so sees the problems in a way that the rest of us can't. - Robert Scoble

Robert, if short term thinking is what caused these problems, then why does Apple create awesome products? What really concerns me is when all this bailout stuff is going to stop. We are going to have this same conversation over and over for each bailout, until we cause US Treasuries to lose their AAA rating, and China, Russia, and the Middle East will start using another currency to trade with. That's what we are risking with these bailouts. - Chris White

Here's a thought: why not eliminate all tax breaks for and/or apply all windfall profit taxes on the fossil fuel industry toward the auto industry bailout? Jack CAFE standard up dramatically and, as others have proposed, commit the Federal Government to a complete overhaul of its vehicle fleet within 5 years, with the prerequisites that replacements must be built in the US and use alternative fuels or new technology. ... - Kevin Pedraja

That would ensure that 1) energy prices don't fall so fast that alt fuel programs wither 2) car makers are both required and incented to invest in new technology. - Kevin Pedraja

I would rather use my taxes to pay unemployment for all of US auto assembly line workers than use my taxes to bail out their braindead asleep-at-the-wheel management. I want my taxes to support American workers, not American executives. - Bjorn Stromberg

I was just thinkng today, how many times have we heard "The consequences of failure would bring chaos" during the past year? It's been the year of the Shepherd Boy. - Ted Gilchrist

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“Just read an e-mail I got from old man @russu while Twitter was down. I haven't seen that kind of panic since Tickle Me Elmo sold out.”

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LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

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"Search millions of historic photos Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google." - Mona N.

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"Available" in the sense that you can look at them and order framed prints -- otherwise not so much - Brian Sullivan

What are you talking about? Did you even look through it? - Mona N.

@Brian Just click on the albums, full standard google image interface. - Neal "thePuck" Jansons

Yes -- what about my statement are you disputing? I don't see any other opportunity for use -- is there something I am missing? - Brian Sullivan

If you have to ask, you are not missing anything... But I am very much appreciating the history, photographs, and art. - Mona N. via IM

OK, I guess I didn't understand what you meant by "use". I mean "I can look at them and save them to my box and enjoy them". - Neal "thePuck" Jansons

I think someone had some bad oatmeal... - Mona N. via IM

I had granola this morning and it was very good. ;-) - Brian Sullivan

I don't eat breakfast, unless coffee and smokes counts. - Neal "thePuck" Jansons

Twitter: Amani posted a message

“What is the best way (and website) to set up a search on twitter and get the results to come back to you via RSS into my Google Reader? Specially, I want to search the words "Social Media Jobs", "Jobs in Social Media" etc, etc ... and get a list daily. Make sense? Any ideas?”

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search.twitter.com. Enter a search term. On the results page, there's a feed available. Use that in GReader. - abacab

I tried that but nothing popped up overnight. Was there nothing said on ALL of twitter about jobs yesterday? - Amani via IM

GIven how broken Twitter is at any given time, I'd not be surprised to hear the search feeds are also screwed up. - abacab

good point about it being broken. I will keep checking and hope it gets fixed soon. - Amani via IM

Mike Sansone posted a message on Twitter

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Apps: LouCypher posted a link

Fashion Your Firefox

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Mozilla today released Fashion Your Firefox®, a new Web application that enables Firefox users to customize their browser based on their interests and online activities. With Fashion Your Firefox, add-ons that fit people’s online lifestyles are organized in easy to discover ways and are available for installation in just a few easy clicks. [via http://www.mozilla.com/press/m...] - LouCypher

Something else to slow it down! - orionstarr

Firefox Barbie! - abacab

Okay I installed some.. what can you tell me about last fm? - orionstarr

RWW: The Future of Tech: Alex Cristache posted a link

Kontain - Flash-based Blogging Platform

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"Yesterday, Fi (Fantasy Interactive) sent out alpha invitations to their new product, Kontain. This is one product I’ve signed up and (not very) patiently waited for its launch, as it should be pretty revolutionary in terms of user-friendliness. Basically, it’s the first Flash-based blogging platform open to world wide free public access." - Alex Cristache

Who needs a Flash-based blogging platform? It's inaccessible. Each page weighs at least 400Kbytes. Maybe someone would use Flash-based blogging tools, but the reader also needs Flash to view even your text and image content. I don't get it. Isn't this why we have standards like JavaScript? - Benjamin Doherty

Benjamin, the Flash Player is installed on the majority of computers these days. That's not the real problem. Also, no matter how much we complain about it, the dial-up era is gone. 400Kb per page? We should analyze standard blogging platforms and see much their pages weight, with tons of widgets & slow loading gadgets using external APIs. This is a great product for those that find "drag and drop" type of actions easier. It would be a whole lot easier to explain Kontain to my father rather than WP. - Alex Cristache

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O M G. Looks at the bacon. LOOK!! - Mona N.

whoa! - Susan Beebe

That's so wrong - what I'm waiting for is bacon bit toppings or a fudge sauce that tastes like bacon! - Wayne Schulz

You Americans have some funny traditions --- "So I candied my bacon the old-fashioned way." :P - Dave Pook

Maybe you could use bacon drippings as the topping on the ice cream. With the salty melty-ness oozing deep into the ice cream...or maybe not - Morgan Haley

Barf! - Sarah Perez

Interesting. - Thankful Molly

Mmmmmm:) - Patrik Johansson

i dunno...bacon ice cream? i'll try it but i ain't buying a quart to go without first getting a taste - Morgan Haley

Puke! - Éric Senterre

Go away you haters. It's a big pile of candy coated WIN. - Mona N.

bleh! - Carmen

Hmm, on one hand, this sounds disgusting. But on the other...intriguing. I would try it. Indeed, I would try it in a heartbeat. - Jamelle

Chris Brogan posted an entry on chrisbrogan.com

Should Every Outward Facing Employee Have a Web Presence

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Simple answer: yes. Same question: should every outward facing employee have a face? - Lars Trieloff

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Absolutely - Aram Zucker-Scharff

I almost said no, because janitors and other people don't really deal with customers, do they? But then I remembered the lady who cleaned my hotel room. She said hi and asked if she could make my stay better. Made my feelings about Sheraton go up. So, everyone affects the brand and everyone is customer facing and everyone can affect our understanding of what the company does, or help us have a better experience with it. - Robert Scoble

Yes. It makes them easier to contact and simpler to manage. - Tyler Hurst via twhirl

Robert: I'd argue that janitors and cleaning staff aren't outward-facing employees. - Kevin Fox

Kevin: I'd argue that they are. Everyone comes into contact with other human beings and they all represent the company in some way every day. If you hire great people all the way through your organization, you won't have to worry. If you hire idiots, then I'd worry about this stuff. - Robert Scoble

No. Most outward-facing employees are already outward-facing and present in the ways they need to be by default. Plastering them on a billboard for people unrelated to see, or opening them up personally for disgruntled customers to stalk... seems to be going a bit far. - abacab

I would say it depends. If you have a sales team with 100 people why not a blog for the team and then each individual member can blog. 100 blogs is maybe taking it a bit far? - Sofia

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Invites: Occasional Headbanger posted a message

“I have boxee invites. The site seems to be flipping out right now and it doesn't give me a number for how many I can give, but if you would like one please respond with your email address. I'll do as many as I can.”

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Hi. I'd like one. sappho at gmail. Thanks - Priscila Zanuzzo

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that would be fantastic pixelrunner at gmail thankyou! - Terry M. Powell

Hope there still some left: ronaldzwart at gmail Thanks! - Ronald

Sent! - LouCypher

Well I still haven't given any of mine. So if you still want one let me know. - Occasional Headbanger

occasional headbanger if you still have it: sofarsoshawn@shaw.ca thank you! - sofarsoshawn

sent - Occasional Headbanger

Thanks LouCypher! - Priscila Zanuzzo

I'd like one too! cheeaun at gmail - Lim Chee Aun

Could I get a boxee invite as well? Thanks! timhoeck@gmail.com - Tim Hoeck