His passion engergizes the base, he attracts independents by cutting his own path, and he makes most other social early adopters/power users seem pokey and out of touch by comparison (...waiting for check in the mail :) - Micah Wittman
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microsoft publishes standards (their own, of course) and invites anyone to work with them. apple, otoh, has consistently been much more "closed", relying on trendiness and an underdog following.
os x is a nice unix implementation, and apple's user interface innovations are legendary and plentiful - but their corporate fascism makes it hard for me to trust them with much. - marty nickel
this stands out, to me, from all the conservative noise being made about obama (and michelle). the gender or race of our next president makes little difference to me. their principles and positions are what's important! - marty nickel
I have to pry Lindsay off of FF every single night. "C'mon sweetie! It's 11:30 and you have to get up at 6!!" "Just a couple more minutes!!" :D - Tad, TV's Patrick Duffy
Maybe a little, though not FriendFeed specifically (Twitter & Google Reader being other time sinks that all get lumped together). I've considered telling her about it but am 99% sure of her reaction already. - Andy Tinkham
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My wife left me in December. I have more time now for FF. - Russellreno
Spouse calls laptop my square-headed girlfriend... - Madsimian
My other half just recently joined Friendfeed account. She is now hooked, not as bad as me though. - Mike Fruchter
Reminds me of that line in Snatch when someone went missing,"Not like it's a set of car keys or pack of cigarettes. What do you mean it's missing?" - Mark Forman
Where in the world is the Twitter database? Is there a reward for it's return? - Michael McGimpsey
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@MM yeah the reward is good karma at Plurk :D - Mark Forman
I think I saw it floating down the street here in Minnesota. Oh Wait that was my server I'm being told. Hey wait come back here I didn't say you could float away server. - David Newberger
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and what is worse the amount of goods that could be made here and we still import. america needs to wake up WE ARE THE THIRD WORLD http://dvnttech.com/blog - Charles Rice
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we are hardly the third world, but our world IS changing and we need to be aware of how and why! - marty nickel
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“Fuel price rise is a conspiracy by the Middle east Oil Cartel. FOOK Then” - Arjun
What kind if idiotic statement is that? We have clothes on our backs, food to eat everyday, and don't have to worry about leaving our homes (yeah we have HOMES) out for fear of someone kidnapping us or killing us. You want to know what third world is? Go to the ghettos of Jamaica or Haiti or South Africa, India, Somalia. Ridiculous - Shey
@marty when a presidential canadate can spend 20 million on an deligate hunt and watch our economy go down hill, when we are cutting or the home less we may be in a better position than other countrys but we are the third world we just have better toys - Charles Rice
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Companies s/ just invest in virtual meeting A/V app's. This will cut out the need to travel at all. Telecommuting is the way to go.. a face2face meeting is really required and most of the time the decisions are still made at the backend..never upfront. - Peter Dawson
@shey I respect what you have to say but how much has your cost of living gone up with out a better job, I myself am disabled and it is harder for me to work and find a job but because of the position of our country im screwd, thier are things we could do to bring our country back up but as i see it where i live suffers more for the way our countrys econnomy has fallen - Charles Rice
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What do you expect when we send all our dollars to China. What do you think they're buying with the money? 1. Cars. 2. Highways. 3. Gasoline. 4. Inflation (for us). - Dave Winer
just b'coz a countries economy has fallen does not mean that its become 3rd world !! I will agree with @Shey,- having worked in slums /leper colonies in India, I have seen what is meant by being an "outcast" .no food, clothing or family . Trust me the Americans and most of the 1st world have barely scratched the surrface of the poverty line, let alone understand the morbid intricacies of humans treating other humans like animals. - Peter Dawson
@Dave you're absolutely right (OMG I'm agreeing with Dave Winer *marks it down in calendar*). China owns the US right now, literally, I hear they are even buying up real estate. Don't forget how much y'all owe them too. If they were to call back all that debt all at once the entire economy would collapse and Canada's with eventually. - Shey
@dave , what did you expect when all the americans wanted was more and more stuff-- 1 xmas present is not enough for the kid, they need 5/6 items.. there greed of the Americans is its downfall.. don't blame the Chinese.. you demanded , they supplied .. yeah and don't 4get, US is spending $2B a week in Iraq- get over that spending first..and feed your ecomomy with food first - not oil - Peter Dawson
@Charles My condolences, I dont' think many anyone can appreciate the struggles you have to go through on a daily basis. Especially because most people have it a lot easier, which makes your statement about the country being Third World kinda ludicrous. Yes, your situation must be extremely difficult, but North America is doing pretty darn well compared to the rest of the world. - Shey
Peter, I totally agree, I don't blame the Chinese. We're fat and dumb here, we're going to have to start getting smart soon, and I don't think people are going to like it. If Americans saw the kind of cars people drive in Europe they'd freak out. If Americans understood who we're competing with (in China and India) they'd freak out. Ultimately our economies are going to, at best, look like theirs. That means our standard of living will go down and theirs will go up. This will happen in Europe too. - Dave Winer
@shay I have respect for you and your view, I speak by what my eyes have seen I am white and have lived in an american ghetto no it was not as bad as other countrys but thier is more to what I classify as a third world than just economy. - Charles Rice
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Dave, your very much correct "That means our standard of living will go down and theirs will go up" - we are getting to "the world is flat" state. I don't think that their std of living will go up. Last week, I spoke to a team from India who flew into FL for a gig I asked them hows the clubbing, - it sux's, clubs are better in India. - Peter Dawson
If we want to be competitive again, we have to stop being afraid of immigrants. This country was founded on the idea that poor people from other countries would be willing to move here and do backbreaking labor at cheap costs because it gave them a better life than they had at home. The American Dream was that their CHILDREN would have a better life. Now, Americans are afraid of competition. And, we're fat and lazy. - Robert Peterson
@ Peter Dawson..the food's better in India too :) - Iain Baker
@shey, What a shitty, ignorant and stupid statement to make.That India is a ghetto. Have u ever been to harlem or say seen the people staying in the under ground tunnel in the so called "first world" country US.I have respect for US.But its has its own problems like our. And @peter what kind of slums/leper colonies are u talking abt.It not 1942.How long back have u been to India? Have u ever been to the ghettos like china town in New York or say Harlem? Leprosy is a tropical disease so its prevalent here. - Arjun
Also population is very high here.So even if we earn and GDP is high, u sudo so called 1st world country(btw who gave that term to u) calculates the per capita GDP as low. And finally its in DOLLARS.Take just the conversion rate and we "poor" Indians are fucked.Do u know with the purchasing parity, we can kick anyones ass any day.And why do "wester" 1st world people come to india for doing there "social work" thing here in India.Why not say dafur or somalia or even bangladesh? - Arjun
@Robert great point that us is trying to block out mexico and our statue of liberty says "Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.I lift my lamp beside the golden door." and yet we are now blocking them out - Charles Rice
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Because India is percived as 3rd world but :) actually is not. You get all the luxury and still play the saviour to the poors.Yes there are poor here in India.So are they in US.Help them first.After sub-prime issue lot will not have a HOME>Help them first - Arjun
@Robert great point that us is trying to block out mexico and our statue of liberty says "Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.I lift my lamp beside the golden door." and yet we are now blocking them outhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... - Charles Rice
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The US will still be the number 1 economy 10 years from now, but the scary numbers are the fact that in the next 10 years China and India are going to drive 90% of the global GDP growth. The US will stay a world power for a while but we're now witnessing the 'rise of the rest' as Fareed Zakaria says in The Post American World. It's an interesting read check it out http://tinyurl.com/6aokgo - Marc Ryan
@Arjun EVERY country is has their filthy rich no matter how poor it or the people may be. And I NEVER said ALL of India was a ghetto -- take the time to READ my statement before trying to chew me out. - Shey
@Arjun, "Help them first -So are they in US.Help them first.After sub-prime issue lot will not have a HOME>Help them first -" - NO- you can go ahead and help them. The American greed for money created the sub-prime mess, the american's now have to reap the consquenses. we in canada, have 'nuff of our own problems to tend too :)- As for the question"How long back have u been to India? " - there in Jan 2007. - Peter Dawson
@Charles Rice Third world? Come to Cape Verde if you wanna see the third world, mate! - ※Fu※
I'm not typically a conspiracy theorist, but I do believe the run-up in oil futures smacks of the kind of manipulation that Enron used in driving up electricity prices in California. Personally, I think there are many positive long-term benefits to high gas prices as it is finally forcing consumers to make long-term positive decisions that have been put off because of cheap oil. However, I wouldn't be surprised to see a bust in market. I just hope such a bust does not make Hummers look attractive again. - Rex Hammock
Did you see that GM may be phasing our new Hummers? - Larry Kless
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@peter @yuvi, well the point taken. :) got a bt emotional. But the thing is sometimes I feel I know or atleast make a effort to know other countries. But most from other countries(mostly wester hemisphere) don't! And that pains me. No I am not a psyco fanatic patriot.Just like to have the fact staraight.And going back to the original q: I really beleive the whole thing is due to OPEC not wanting to increase output and the iraq war preventing disruption frm a big supplier. - Arjun
Most Oil firms are wester/US based companies.ANd if they can just increase the output, which in turn will put less pressure on the world market.Then this criss can be averted.In fact as of yesterday, Indian govt increased the petrol prices by 5 bucks and diesel by 3 bucks. And that still will not cover the loss by Indian oil importers.And that has already raised such a hue & cry that govt is in danger.So I beleive that the Oil Cartel should be reined in and let them just not think of selfish profit. - Arjun
After listening to the last one about FriendFeed I'll pass. There is no structure to the discussion, the sound quality is poor and I'm not sure why some of the other big names even participate. The last one with the FriendFeed folks could basically be summed up like this: if FriendFeed doesn't do exactly what Steve Gillmor wants (a twitter clone) then they'll fail and he won't use them. - Delete Me
Tried listening to this once -- found it a colossal waste of time. I am pretty sure I can get much more useful information browsing FF for 5 minutes than listening to this ad hoc group of self centered egobags for a whole day - Brian Sullivan
I'm going to keep my comments to myself. - Aaron Myers
I'm convinced his puts his posts through a bizarro filter to drive traffic. Not just with mac fans, but with a lot of other articles he writes. - Bwana
yeah, I'm not going to add everyone on this one either. I've already told the Internet who my friends are. If it can't figure that out from now on, then a pox on it. - Robert Scoble
Screw that. I won't talk about Plurk until they give me my user name back. - Robert Scoble
Isn't that what Leo Laporte said about Twitter Robert? ;-) - Jesse Stay
heehee - I secured "tad" - always have to get in early to snag 3 letter names. So far I have no interest in plurk. - Tad, TV's Patrick Duffy
Anyone else find plurk's threading system silly? You have to click on this small number and wait for the thread to load, no way to see an overview of incoming messages - Mark Trapp
Yep that's a little weird but I think there is something to be done with the timeline. - fbrunel
"The server has either erred or is incapable of performing the requested operation." It doesn't take long for a new service to run into scalability problems. Hasn't anyone learnt that they should design stuff to be scalable from the very beginning? Looks to me like the focus for these guys was an ultra-cool UI.. - Wil
USABILITY! It's not usable! I can't stand such vainly colorful stuff - directeur
looks silly to me. I'm sure someone could whip up a twitter timeline that would look just as good. Plus, it would have the added bonus of big, blank holes in the timeline showing when twitter was down... - Trent Olson
I think my biggest problem is that there are two many things that require active feedback. Want to see new responses? Have to click "view new responses" then click a small number next to each thread. Want to update the timeline? You have to click "update." Want to see alerts? Have to click on a really small number there, as well. Why can't it update on its own? - Mark Trapp
looked a lot like a twitabee I will sign up later just in case and to do a review posers - Charles Rice
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Follpwing your lead I just secured /jdl which is easier to write than curiousyellow - Jonathan Leavitt
omg. louis crashed qik watching scoble's 97 hrs of videos all at once in a single browser window with a gazillion tabs open. no wonder why qik is down :) - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Louis, be careful, they may well accuse you of all their technical problems :) - Svetlana Gladkova
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so was it worth it? how about a top 10 list the rest of us should watch :) - Delete Me
It is tempting. Seriously. As easy as it is to pick on Robert sometimes, this is a new world of primary source journalism. There are some good videos in there of things I'm interested in... Twitter, FriendFeed, Disqus just for starters. I recommend everybody step in and check them out. The more I look at it, the more I wonder what other stories I might like. And the temp was fine. :-) - Louis Gray
I too have perused thru LOTS of Scoble's QIK vids and they are awesome! ok so you're feeling well I see :-) cool! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
No doubt! Scoble's Qik video's rock. So did congressman John Culberson who brought us live updates of the Mars Phoenix landing. Goes to show how cool of a backchannel Qik can be for covering events and such. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
My partner is visiting her mother tonight so I will give it a go, need to sort out my car as well though so probably will be late in the evening! - Joe Dawson (beta)
I guess Qik is back up! Heheh. I see a new map thing on the home page. Will have to play with that in the morning after i get some sleep. The videos? I've had an amazing string of good luck in getting my cell phone in front of some damn interesting people. I wonder if you'll find the Bono video, or the Annie Liebovitz vids? - Robert Scoble
that's why Twitter may just succeed - I doubt many services are ready to compete with Twitter on an architectural level. By the time they are, so will Twitter. - Jesse Stay
if you want to be the next twitter, just wait for SXSW next year, but still probly wont happen for you lol, the fail whale is hungry - Anthony
Yeah, I fill cheated. Where's the picture of headless birds lifting a whale torso out of the water? :-) In all seriousness, twisted images aside, I don't see what unique offerings Plurk brings to the table. - Joanmarie
I'm sure the plunk engineers were thrilled when leo sent out a mass invite and 9:30 am on sunday morning. They were probably doubly thrilled when scoble showed up. I bet their job sucked today. - Doug Brooks
I tried it just now and deleted my account soon afterward due to the name restrictions (had to be at least two words, it appeared). But it wasn't down. - Voyagerfan5761
jesse, easier said than done.. just saying I'm glad that wasn't my sunday :) imagine waking up to that ehhe. I find the whole thing quite hilarious. - Doug Brooks
it won't stay up long enough for me to add you robert - marty nickel
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yep...it's borked up and that fish is blowing so hard it's head's gonna pop off like that bone-head dog! LOL ...lameO - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
if you want to be the next twitter all you have to do is stay up. that's pretty much it. someone famous once said 90% of anything is showing up - well maybe 90% of web app success is staying up. - Morgan
Doug, oh yeah, I understand, and I feel for them. I remember waking up to hear our site was on the front page of MSN at one startup I was at several years ago. Those days were horrible days! And I was the only guy that could fix it! - Jesse Stay
You and Leo Laporte should sell your service as a "scalability audit" :) - Katherine Druckman
Plurk is written in Python, is it time to pick on Python not scaling? - Bob Ngu
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How do Python and the other technologies today scale? I've heard many Ruby on Rails complaints. How about others? - Mitchell Tsai
Shame! Python not scaling? You sure are kidding Bob? :) - directeur
directeur, I am being facetious LOL. I know that Google is largely written in Python, so yeah it scales but even that is a silly thing to say because a language is but one small piece of the overall architecture. Likewise, people need to stop blaming Ruby on Rails for Twitter's downtime, even Twitter has came out and said as much recently. - Bob Ngu
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