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Half of it was right. - Chris White

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

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

Welcome home Robert. I hope the China trip was enlightening. - Rob Diana

So, hamburger, burrito, sub or something else? What's the food you missed the most? - Andrew Leyden

did you loose any wieght while in china? when i was there i dropped 10 lbs due to the change in diet - Jonathan Jesse

Welcome back. Thanks for all your China updates. Really good stuff. - Dave Martin

The media has been alerted :-) - todd

See you next week when I get there:-) Let's have a China discussion. - Francine Hardaway

Jonathan: I gained weight. I love Chinese food. Mexican is what I missed most. And Maryam's Iranian cooking. - Robert Scoble

This is the first time I checked out Dopplr. I don't really travel enough to justify its use, but it looks like an interesting service. - Ontario Emperor

Wow, many, if not most, popular Web 2.0 apps are cloned by the Chinese. And they're bringing them online fast. - imabonehead

ima: yeah, and most have been cloned multiple times. Now, though, the services are innovating on their own and adding some really unique things. Micropayments, for instance, are way ahead here in China vs. the US. - Fast Company

Interesting and yet kinda scary. US tech companies definitely need to be aware, if they're not already. As for me, I probably should move to China, the land of my ancestors, to start a Web 2.0 startup. :P - imabonehead

interesting, though its surprising something like it would be around in China with the Chinese government's censorship, namely seeing as how ours has labeled twitter as a potential terrorist tool, it'd seem they would be hesitate - BCK

BCK: Interesting to me is that neither China nor Iran have blocked FriendFeed. Both block my blog. I bet both services will get blocked eventually. FriendFeed is VERY fast in China, though, while Facebook is dreadfully slow. - Robert Scoble

it's a pure surprise to see Robert Scoble in Guangzhou(Canton). What a pleasure to talk to Robert about the Chinese Twitter: www.zuosa.com - Alex Mou

I guess the chinese government doesn't have any early adopters on the staff :P - BCK

If you read some of the local newspapers you would think HK is sinking into a hole though. Busy street != good economy :p - Clarence Chiang

Robert I always wondered 'bout Chine but, after your whole feed about there...Now i have an urgent feeling to visit there! China gov. has to pay you for your presentation :) - Olcayto

Olcatyo: it's an interesting place to visit and a LOT cheaper than Paris. You should have seen the club we hung out in last night. As good as any Vegas club. - Robert Scoble

Robert: My wife is also a FF user, so i have to reply as "Good for you" for your comment :) When you gonna share more photos? I mean China. Not the club :) - Olcayto

Olcayto: I gotta run, so no photos right now. Maybe later after we go out and party, but might be a couple of days. - Robert Scoble

Have a great time, I've been to HK many times, it's a beautiful place. The food and shopping is amazing, so inexpensive compared to US and Canada! If you have time, take a subway to go around the city and do some shopping and eating. - Alvin

The first portable gaming device I ever bought was in Hong Kong. We used to stop by there often on our way back to the US from Indonesia when I lived there growing up. - Jesse Stay

@alvin "The food and shopping is amazing, so inexpensive compared to US and Canada!" - not quite, it depends how you choose to spend your money there. It can be *very* expensive as well. - Kevin Chan

trying it out now. I had to delete it and then reinstall it to get it to work. - Brian Bufalo

I just installed and gave it a try, http://friendfeed.com/e/8fbc0d... I think there are still some kinks to be worked out. - Kevin D. White

when I first installed it, phone was crashing but after restoring the phone it works great. - Kim Landwehr

The difference is that Google keeps their products around, Yahoo axes them shortly after releasing them in most cases. I don't even know why they bother anymore. - Javier Altman

I can't remember the last time I used a Yahoo service really. - Bhavishya Kanjhan

Google has kept its focus on developing the coolest cutting-edge Internet software possible. Yahoo got distracted by some Old Media people, and, in some respects, tried to become a traditional mainstream media company. Brin and Page exercised better judgment than Yang and Filo. Perhaps they are simply smarter. - Sean McBride

@Bhavishya Kanjhan - Flickr?? - thomasrdotorg

Yahoo! brings cool stuff too, eg: searchmonkey, pipes, open strategy. But somehow it's not as viral as when it comes from Google. I love Yahoo!. Hopefully they won't disappear anytime soon. Come on Yahoo! Let's grow in Asia. - Akhmad Fathonih

They havent done anything useful with Flickr & delicious! Meanwhile google has innovated with picasa with facial recognition & integration with contacts. Yahoo has all the components, its about tying them together and coming out with useful services. Unfortunately either they dont know how to do it or dont have the back bone to execute on it. Yahoo shows flashes of brilliance but thats where it ends.. Case in point fire eagle. Might as well acquire Brightkite! Yahoo get back innovating! - Arjun Ram

I love that in the announcement, he said that they're the world leader technology and product... have they heard of Google? - Simon T Small

The only Yahoo service I use? Flickr. And that's a old product. - Leon Ho

an oldy but a goody - Simon T Small

there is delicious of course...flickr like leon said...pipes is pretty damn cool. They're huge in China i believe...i reckon they'll come back. - Zee from WeDoCreative

Google brings cool products - Yes. Yahoo for me as bought in some cool products like Flickr and Delicious which I love. - Tejas Patel

Brin and Page have a grand vision of how to best organize all the information in the world. They see how all the pieces fit together. I'm not sure Yang and Filo ever quite reached that level of consciousness. Google has unlimited potential if they stay on track -- they've barely scratched the surface of what is possible. - Sean McBride

Well said, Sean. - Steve Isaacs

I give Yahoo money for Flickr and fantasy sports. I have yet to give Google a cent but use all their services. I know it's different for businesses. - Andrew Smith

yea, they have a very clear vision, to digitize and make available all the information in the world... and credit to them, they've stayed on track! Yahoo!? just trying to sell advertising. - Simon T Small

Although I have an affection for how Flickr has aged, ie. fairly well, I'm also getting tired of the many lil' pesky UI gaffes and the chug. Gotta treat a lady right, Yahoo. - Marko Bon

Yahoo voice chat was the awesomest thing I had ever used in the world as far as social interaction at one point in time. Yahoo chat period was awesome. Sure, there was IRC, but this was different. Now, it's like Yahoo has let all those services, even the newer video stuff, get overrun by....crazies - ♫ Rahsheen™

I don't know, they may end up naming a cool new CEO shortly :-) - Duncan Riley

Google does nothing but KILL cool things. Their search engine is great. Earth and Maps are good, everything else? Meh. I wish Yahoo would have kept Live! going. It was a really nice and robust personal broadcast service. Their MyYahoo page is pretty nice too and so many people still use Yahoo! Groups. And lets not forget they own Flickr and Delicious. - Adam Turetzky

Adam - you didn't mention Google Reader, Gmail, Google Docs, Google News, Google Blog Search, Google Book Search and Google Voice Local Search, all of which I use heavily. I practically live out of Google Reader. - Sean McBride

Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo News, Yahoo Pipes, YUI, MyBlogLog, Flickr, Yahoo Finance.... yeah, if Yahoo were to disappear tomorrow, I'd definitely notice. BrowserPlus was just released and it was covered. Yahoo is much bigger than the drama we make about them. - Bwana

I have to say, though, I am hoping Yahoo can pull through this current slump. I am a big believer in what they are doing with Y!OS. - John McCrea

Agreed, its just relative to Google. - Simon T Small

YUI is really the only innovative thing I've seen in quite some time. - Hal via twhirl

My favorite source for good product info used to be a Yahoo Labs search engine (Mindset). They axed it about a year ago though, sadly. - Dan Byler

I think Yahoo Pipes is pretty innovative, not sure how many use it though. I can't even scratch the surface of all the features - Rick Bucich via twhirl

Yahoo Buzz is nicely done - Michael McGimpsey via twhirl

Yahoo seems to be good at wringing out their CEOs. - Cathleen Rittereiser

I use Yahoo Fantasy Sports. That's about it though. I suspect it's the same for many others. - Nathan Johns

Jerry's done inovating. I think that portion of our brain fossilizes at a certain point. He'll probably be better off, and weathier in the end - but would have done much better to have realized it 8 months ago. - Hal via twhirl

no way! yahoo location database api, yahoo query language, search monkey, semantic indexing, have you seen the stuff mybloglog is still coming up with? wordpress recommendation widget, blogjuice reader demographics. i think yahoo comes out with more cool stuff than google by a long shot - Marshall Kirkpatrick

Yahoo was my default e-mail and messenger client... untill Gmail and Gtalk happened... Love Google, - Devakishor

Yeah not sure how Google can pump up innovation so quickly! - Alvin

We had something unusual go out today; oh, wait, that was the CEO.... - Glen Campbell

Did Google learn from Yahoo's mistakes? Or did the just got so big and so diversified that a (potential) fall from grace will be even worse? - Sofia

"Yahoo! brings cool stuff too, eg: searchmonkey, pipes, open strategy. But somehow it's not as viral as when it comes from Google." Akhmad, not sure about that -- do more people know about the Google Mashup Editor than about Yahoo Pipes? - Philipp Lenssen

"The difference is that Google keeps their products around, Yahoo axes them shortly after releasing them in most cases." What do you make of Yahoo Answers vs Google Answers then? Google Answers was deserted by Google and then stopped, whereas Yahoo Answers had promotions with people like Oprah Winfrey or Stephen Hawking asking questions. - Philipp Lenssen

hey guys, why don't you try yahoo services ? http://developer.yahoo.com/eve... - TiTi