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The one search company most likely to get purchased by Microsoft to crush Google that I saw in Cambridge UK? PrismaStar.
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Reasons for saying that?
- Ahmed
Why?
- Jim Connolly
why ?
- Kashif Khan
http://www.prismastar.com/about-u...
- ashish
"crush google", wow sounds interesting.
- Rich Lazzara
I hope this is the same PrimaStar Robert is talking about
- ashish
Rich: Google crush sounds more interesting - like the name of a drink.
- Jim Connolly
Why? You'll have to see our Building43 video to see why. :-) But let's just say they did the search technology for several camera stores and the conversion rate went WAY up. Why is that? Because they offer a new way of searching things that really rocks. I can't explain it in text. Gotta show it to you.
- Robert Scoble
looking fwd to it
- Rich Lazzara
Demo http://www.prismastar.com/our-sol...
- Jauder Ho
Primestar's AnswerOil UIX is a good fit for #Bing's decision support platform, combined with shopping cart & checkout optimization products from www.allurent.com would yield further eCommerce results.
- Alexander Ainslie
I'm interested.Do they support dynamic search/ads via keywords/tags? I sent them a message, and like what I saw. Very feature driven search.
- Mark Essel
Robert: direct link to the building43 video?
- James Kuypers
Several people asked which product categories we support -- here's a site that uses over 1000: http://translate.google.com/transla...
- Joshua Z. Tabin
(on the right-hand side of that translated page are some samples...)
- Joshua Z. Tabin
Also, Mark Essel: YES, we do support dynamic search/ads via keywords/tags. :)
- Joshua Z. Tabin
Thanks Joshua, great talking to you.
- Mark Essel
Most likely to get purchased by Microsoft with the intent to crush Google, perhaps. But Microsoft intends a lot of things. Maybe they'll buy PrismaStar, then rebrand MSN, er, Live Search, er Bing, and the market will be less confused.
- Andy Bakun
But Jessops the camera retailer is losing money: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money...
- Jelly Roll Morton
Jessops has been losing money as long as anyone can remember, which is hardly Prismastar's fault. The point is though that Jessops has a very good search tool with Prismastar's AnswerOil and has seen a substantial increase in its conversion rates since adopting Prismastar's technology. It could be Answeroil which has kept them going this long (nobody would have expected them to still be around in late 2009 eighteen months ago)
- John S Cameron
John, did Jessops really see a substantial increase in conversion rates? I respectfully suggest that this is not a fact. Can anyone actually verify this claim? It is on record that Jessops are still around because HSBC Bank saved them, rather than because of their business performance.
- Jelly Roll Morton
Posting from another feed: here is the prior art that someone was looking for on Interconnected Sliders : they existed back in 2004 in the public domain - download this FLA file for free and build your own interconnected sliders: http://www.senocular.com/flash...
- Jelly Roll Morton
If you had ONE startup to tell @aplusk 's 3 million followers about, what would it be? My answer here:
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Other than FriendFeed? Aloqa. I think that is going to be big.Aloqa is a mobile platform and is how lots of businesses will get on iPhone and Android.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I would tell @aplusk about @Wantsa. I haven't told you about it yet, but i know it's going to be big. Like, big big.
- Colleen
Obviously, GOGII (my employer). Our app textPlus is on fire and the stuff we're building on top of boring SMS is freaking amazing. Our founders did JAMDAT (sold to EA), so we're loaded with mobile wizards. Plus, I'm hiring a Teen Ambassador to mentor to properly serve our entire community. /rant done.
- drew olanoff
Collen: what does that do?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Nice this is blow-mind following techniq.
- Compuworki
Hi Robert! Check out http://www.linkedstore.com ...we build social stores for everyone..a good idea to open business easily, helps ppl out..Argentinean startup THANKS!!!
- Agustin DL
Why, @offbeatguides of course! They're normal people who travel, and they want something to help them enjoy their travels more! ;-)
- Ask Offbeat Guides
aahh and it's free
- Agustin DL
I would never ever want to talk to any of his followers, dear lord, omg, where's the Tylenol.
- James Watters
@Robert - wantsa (www.wantsa.com) is a recommendation engine... operates much like a search engine does, only it lives within social networks like Facebook, Ning and others. People recommend businesses, services and people, and businesses have the opportunity to post offers (deals, discounts etc) that come up when a user searches for a product. Not only does the business get to...
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- Colleen
Aloqa has a fatal error in their sigup for other phones :-(
- Amit Morson
I would have to say @Pelotonics since it's what I've been working on everyday all day for the past year. We have a online project management solution (very crowded space, I know), though we have an eye towards integrating the tools you use for your personal productivity into the group setting. Like Evernote, Google Docs (we're going to be the first company to be able to truly push GDocs into the corporation), etc...
- Daniel Marashlian
The GetVocal (http://getvocal.com) Surf-By-Tel voice browser allows you to surf the web with only your telephone and your voice! Their voice portal technology dynamically converts any website's HTML code to speech on-the-fly making our solution perfect for mobile professionals and/or visually impaired customers.
- Chris Matthieu
Texas Tribune http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2009...
- Jay Rosen
Amit it is Android only so far. iPhone coming in next month.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I'd tell them about http://gangplankhq.com. One of the best kept secrets outside Phoenix.
- Tyler Hurst
Posterous
- Noel Gomez
TwitSnaps, Robert...In another one month's time we are going to do something remarkable with http://twitsnaps.com.
- K N Ajit Narayan
i will probably get a ton of backlash against this one....but im mega bullish on @foursquare
- Tristan Walker
Yea, I'm loving @Foursquare
- Daniel Marashlian
Colleen, how are services/companies joining the Wantsa network? Are they user entered or do they get entered from Wantsa?
- Daniel Marashlian
Tristan: Foursquare has a lot of potential but I don't know that it delivers.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Actually, I will have to wait for a Windows Mobile version, if they are planning one.
- Amit Morson
Robert, agreed...still early. But if done right, it can change the way we think about LBS. Execution heavy, but im a believer. Smart guys steering the ship
- Tristan Walker
Jay: that is interesting, I will be in Texas in a week and we should go and see them.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
what do u think is missing from it?
- Tristan Walker
Next time you're in the Marina del Rey area, come see the GOGII/textPlus team, I should be out there for my regular week at a time sessions on off chemo weeks soon.
- drew olanoff
Tristan: more locations.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
@Daniel It can happen either way. There;s a suite of managed services and businesses can do it themselves as well. Visibility is based on the amount of money they are willing to pay wantsa for the lead/survey etc (the biz tells wantsa what it is worth to them to get that lead) and a portion of that amount is donated to the charity of the user's choice, without a penny coming from the user's own pocket.
- Colleen
@Daniel @Robert, Wantsa is currently an App in Facebook (but the UI needs updating), has launched on the 4real.com social network and is currently in talks with Ning's biz dev director to place us as a Family app with core integration coming down the pipe in the next 6 months (estimated)
- Colleen
But Robert, you can input locations into the system as well. A pain, certainly but theyll figure it out soon enough.
- Tristan Walker
I tweeted this - my favorite would be Better World Books (@bwbooks) an online bookstore (http://betterworldbooks.com) which raises money for literacy worldwide via used book sales, esp of books donated to local libraries - highly successful business model, does good many times over, mission driven (oh and funded by Good Capital here in SF)
- Shannon Clark
5G Cell Phones which everyone will have soon http://www.5gcellphone.info
- Jeff Grant
FourSquare is aiming to be the unofficial AddressBook in the cloud. Notice that when you friend someone they get all of your contact info and vice versa? Perty smart.
- drew olanoff
drew i agree....the service at scale will be REALLY powerful for small businesses as well. This is the kind of LBS theyve been looking for
- Tristan Walker
Jeff: Wow, that is the way forward! Are those currently available?
- Daniel Marashlian
@foursquare - it just feels right and it feels like it has plenty of potential to grow organically and become a great resource for so many different avenues
- Kathleen Forden
Aloqa needs some pricing info. If I have to make a call on that, I usually figure it's too expensive.
- Kathy Fitch
The register for later announcements about other phones froze for me, as well. (Of course, their system is probably getting bombarded, right about now, so . . .)
- Kathy Fitch
The others sound great, but @aplusk 's followers need to be aware of TribeHQ http://www.tribehq.com - a micro-blogging platform (not twitter) that has evolved the micro-blogging concept. In essence, different professional groups (tribes) - eg nurses, engineers, florists, teachers, embalmers connect with others in their occupation, with the tribal buzz, and enter into direct...
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- Paul Jacobs
DM me on Twitter for contact info for Texas Tribune if you need it, Robert
- Jay Rosen
Robert, I'm surprised you didn't mention any of the recent partnership/acquisitions by Rackspace. What do you like there (that you can talk about).
- Michael Fidler
I would let him know about @GoldMail. GoldMail is software that allows business people to quickly and easily create personal and powerful voiceover visual messages by making slides from virtually any content (including PowerPoint slides, PDFs, Text documents, and photos) and recording their voice over them. They then send a link to their message using any email service or post it online.
- Kathryn Leuenberger
@aplusk is all about the democratization of media, so http://TweetReel.com - (Sharing video on Twitter with the 3GS) Plus, it's my start-up ;)!
- Colin
Michael: I am a fan of JungleDisk. Great backup to the cloud.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Kathryn: funny I have a video of Goldmail's founder I am working on.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Scoble, I signed up for a Rackspace Cloud Site Friday, mainly because of you, and their service is anything by fanatical. It's terrible. And I'm not complaining just to complain. I owned a Furniture store for years, so I have a lot of respect for people who own and run businesses
- Stephen Pickering
Robert, WideTag Inc http://www.widetag.com , we're building the next Internet, the Internet of Things. Any devices, from you Smartphone, toward your laundry or your car, will be interconnected, a Machine2Machine new comunication era. Our WideSpime infrastructure can deliver 16k/sec transaction per single core, something in near-realtime.
- Luca Perugini
from iPhone
FriendFeed, by far
- LANjackal
Www.openyet.com the answer for finding business hours
- Greg Birch
from iPhone
Is FriendFeed a startup? It's been starting up for a looong time now. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
reprap.org
- Francesco Balducci
I love tokbox !
- johnpiercy
I forgot to leave my suggestion before. I see a lot of new startups here, but if I was going to suggest one, it would be posterous.
- Michael Fidler
I'm not sold on these location based services. Maybe in SF it's ok. I suppose this is a bit like Augmented Reality.
- thinkQuick
It's November 2009, there's no spam on friendfeed and @aplusk is making a magazine on Http://GreenerMags.com and sharing it with is 10 million friends.
- GreenerMags
from iPhone
Well, if @aplusk is all about the democratization of media, then maybe an open source app for making media - www.celtx.com ?
- Mark Kennedy
How about http://www.kickstarter.com?
- Arvind
rhetorically: do @aplusk's followers really care about tech or cutting-edge sites, or are they more or less celebrity gawkers? btw, aloqa looks very interesting. it's time to start making the Web better on mobile devices
- .LAG liked that
Annoys me on my iphone when I go to sites and it takes me to a gimped baby mobile version of their site
- Mark
Liking this for the acknowledgment that Twitter followers has an aspect of traditional media reach. Which it does.
- Hutch Carpenter
why is he called Aplusk?
- Mark
A+K
- Mike Doeff
from iPhone
Tell them about Etherpad.
- Vezquex: God of FF
Why not tell them about something that is both a startup as well as something good for this planet? My vote is for @Jolkona (http://www.jolkona.org) (Note: I have no affiliation with them)
- Trevin
Thanks to everyone who posted here. I'm having great fun exploring all of these sites and services.
- Kathy Fitch
@realDVORAK says my recommendation is a crock. Say it here bub and give us YOUR suggestion!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Let the clash of the titans commence..... popcorn anyone :)
- Jim Connolly
Does Dvorak even use FriendFeed? Thought he was a Twitter guy these days?
- Jim Connolly
Robert, you know that @realDVORAK is not actually John C. Dvorak right? John is @therealDVORAK
- Steven (optionshiftk)
Good spot Steven.
- Jim Connolly
Oopppsss, didn't know that. Thanks!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Robert: Are there any fake Scobles?
- Jim Connolly
Yeah, I just barely caught it.. it was convincing though, especially with the poser using the term "crock" which is a typical Dvorak phrase.
- Steven (optionshiftk)
Robert - what about Blackberry users - we can't switch to Friendfeed 100%....Any suggestions? And can't give up bberry. OOPS - meant to post this to previous thread...But seroiusly, help for bberry friendfeed users...?
- Liza
Jim: there are a few inactive ones.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Robert: I thought there had to be a few out there somewhere.
- Jim Connolly
@scobleizer - Blown away by such substantive engagement! Challenge your base with an opportunity to show off in front of an audience that they can relate to! Here's the rub - googling for a list of startups is both naive and futile, and would hardly expose sentiment. This seemingly simple question energized the base and satisfied the questioner's true intent - to query a group of early...
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- tony felice
Check out the Macintosh specs and marketing from 1992:
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Computers back then came with 40megabyte (not terabyte) harddrives. RAM? Most Macs had a couple of megs. Try to run OSX on THAT!
- Robert Scoble
from email
and now 4096MB ram is not considered too outlandish
- Mark
The good old days when a Meg of RAM was a few hundred bucks!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I am currently using an ibook G4 with 512 MB and it actually fits my needs :) (using ratpoison on debian lenny)
- directeur
Any mathematicians in the room? If we went from 4MB of RAM to 4GB as standard in 16 years, how much RAM will be standard in 16 years from now?
- Mark
4*1024 GB? Mark? :)
- directeur
are you sure thats right?
- Mark
ack, the numbers blow my mind, but there is probably a math forumla which gives the "correct" answer
- Mark
Mark: It depends on how fast 64-bit adoption happens. It was a long jump between 32bit and 64bit compared to the jump between 16bit and 32bit. How soon do you think the jump between 64bit and 128bit will be?
- Luke Kilpatrick
lol
- Zachary TG
Well it depends on the function. That's just a guess, and I actually don't need even a 1GB
- directeur
why would we need to go 128bit? cant 64bit handle millions of GB ?
- Mark
Yes Mark, they can. We need to convert to 64bit before 128bit
- Zachary TG
The real question IMHO what blaoted software will need that much RAM? I for one support and love well made apps that don't need or require a lot of ram
- directeur
Crysis 4 will require 16GB of Ram! :p
- Mark
I think games continue to push the RAM limits, so I wouldn't be suprised if we have 16GB of RAM as standard in five years
- Mark
Well yeah, but I actually don't even use a desktop environment :)
- directeur
God, this is reminds me of an old re-run of Friends I saw recently, Chandler with a small lorry on his lap with 4 MB of RAM and a 8 inch screen. Wow!
- Brett McGuire
64bit can support 16.8 million TB of memory in theory though x86-64 can only support 4096TB so either way I'd say we are at least 30 years off needing desktop 128 bit machines if not 50 years.
- Richard Cunningham
from iPod
I still have my original 1984 Mac (with no hard drive), manual, mouse, etc. Afraid to check eBay to see what it's (not) worth.
- Todd
Let's create a list of 100 new startups that should be created right now!
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Location based aggregated travel info, down to the street level. I want to be able to instantly know historical facts, reviews, tips, etc. about the building I'm looking at right now.
- Jason Goldberg
A user-curated/voted guide to the best expert advice on anything.
- Jason Goldberg
dont these all exsit or are possible today, bringing together lots of sites... whats stopping us doing these now. is it just the user interface?
- Nigel Walsh
that said, I like your idea.... we should have a news network that starts with positive news!
- Nigel Walsh
@Nigel --> it's all doable with stuff that's out there. That's the best part of where the net is right now. It's all online, now we get to build cool services to make sense of it.
- Jason Goldberg
Jason, this is an interesting idea. Regarding the "expert advice" thing, I would love to get a good version of product recommendations, but in a "wizard" format. Look at HDTVs, I should be asked questions about size, price, picture quality and maybe one or two other things and it should give me the best fit.
- Rob Diana
Other ideas?
- Jason Goldberg
Jason: the first two could probably done pretty easily as Mahalo apps.
- Christian Anderson
Seems to me mashup apps are going to get huge. The companies that have the most open APIs with deep access to information will win the next round.
- Christian Anderson
Further speculation: of the 100, 49 will be localized- or verticalized-search related. Another 49 will be mashups that tie econmerce to existing search tools such that the commerce gets more targeted and powered by one's social graph.
- Christian Anderson
I think the people driven social space needs a metric. Something portable that identifies users contributions and influence. Something peer mediated.
- Richard Zeidel
Christian, I hope you are right about mashups being huge, that would help me a lot :) However, I am not sold on social ecommerce. Product reviews are good, but the "power of the network" or social graph may not extend well with commerce. The social graph tends to use the idea that several people in your network are experts in something. Commerce does not work quite in the same way.
- Rob Diana
Richard, I do not know if peers want to "mediate" as much as knowing how they rank. It is the selfish part of social that drives that. Once you start listing or ranking people, you get the whole a-list and a-list backlash problems. Just look at what is happening with Scoble's list today, http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Rob Diana
Point your smartphone or iPhone at a house or building, and get all the background information. (This is potentially scary -- one could get all the background information on the residents or inhabitants of the house or building. This is doable now -- the technology and data are there.)
- Sean McBride
One startup idea I wish we had was a unified communication platform. Basically, email, IM, twitter, friendfeed or whatever hook into one big "thing". This could probably start as a web app, and branch into mobile and and thick client apps as well.
- Rob Diana
Rob: I'm more hopeful on the ecommerce side. For example, I have several photo geeks in my social graph. I'm thinking about buying a DSLR. They know me and suggested a D90. It's not so hard to imagine someone suggesting where to buy one or even selling me theirs over ff or whatever.
- Christian Anderson
I agree with Rob. "a unified communication platform" could make life way easier for me. Streamy comes close but I am struggling with the interface. another startup that could be helpful is one that does location based social networking no matter where you travel...couchsurfing, socialect and localwoot do similar stuff. i wish the three could be combined :-)
- Freddie Benjamin
Rob: Here's the disconnect for me. The Social Space is about the individual and the individual's positioning is based on their own packaging, contributions etc. Influence is a key factor - Twitter started with followers, Facebook has friends, LinkedIn has connections. But qualitative data begs the SFW - so fukin what!?! We need a measure to understand people and their place - and i...
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- Richard Zeidel
Point your smartphone or iPhone at *anything* and get all the background information. Think about that. Products at stores. Places. People. Documents. Vehicles. Any physical entity.
- Sean McBride
Sean: See Ted Video Pattie Maes Sixth Sense...http://bit.ly/LdXlr
- Richard Zeidel
@christian -- *could* be done via something like mahalo but i think they are more pure play apps. the first is more of a killer iphone app. I have been traveling so much lately that i want something like this. A service that literally can tell you everything interesting you need to know about the exact place you are at right this minute. The info is already out there online, it just...
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- Jason Goldberg
Nigel: In keeping with your positive news network idea, I'd love to do a series in manner of The Soup... a possibly humorous weekly recap of web culture news (from trending topics and blog top stories to start-up coverage and web series highlights).
- Sarah Crisman
@shawn, i love it.
- Jason Goldberg
Book Recycling. I'd like to see a method developed that would remove the printing from old books and reprint new text..
- Bill Bittner
Jason -- this idea of yours has occurred to me many times, so naturally I think it's brilliant. :) One of the tricks would be to prioritize the mountains of information associated with any given place.
- Sean McBride
Richard -- got it: fantastic link to the work of Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry at the MIT Media Lab.
- Sean McBride
Death Alarm: Follow my online activity via RSS feeds (blog, twitter, facebook etc..) to determine if I am dead!, and if so, activate my afterlife macros. Macros include: sending my letters (e-mails) to family, updating statuses("farewell everyone"), posting blog. Death will be triggered by configurable idle time counter (no status updates for 30 days for instance), followed by e-mail...
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- denizoktar
@sean I would love to know the history of my house - I have a picutre from 1926 when it was just a field, yet a year later it was built... who by, who lived here -
- Nigel Walsh
how about a feature request so that when you comment @nigel or otherwise it alerts you on Friend Feed!
- Nigel Walsh
you know I was thinking earlier - Monday, better Detox, would love to use twitter for global support and tweet what I eat - and everything I tweet, automatically get counted for me and emailed to me every day against a plan.. I rushed back to the PC and someone had done it - almost identical to my thoughts... either Im getting slow or someone has read my mind!
- Nigel Walsh
@Rob - Isn't this Digsby or something similar - the only thing that misses is Skype. Im also doing a lot of work with people like Cisco right now and they have some very cool UC stuff out or coming out - linking Presence and various other API's. Im doing this as part of an Enterprise Mashup - but this could easily be consumer based.
- Nigel Walsh
Twitting credit card. Choose which kind of activities with your credit card to be twittered in your account.For instance: Visa, please twit everything I eat.(Inspired by Nigel) Whenever I buy a food, it will be twittered. (I am assuming credit cards keep track of each item bought. Do they? Here they don't)
- denizoktar
One important start up - web 2.0 for education - there are people in the field but it is not "easy yet". Education is inherently conservative and slow to change - something stupidly simple that would allow/teach/train educators how to use and be successful in web 2.0 would be a great startup. Heck i'd even invest in that one.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Another important start up - portable health care - in that people can have an electronic version of their health care records, everything that they can carry with them. Personally it should be implanted, on a special card, and be very secure, up datable. The fun part would be dealing with people's MRI's, and other imagery/telemetry systems.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
A critical piece of the social web is status/rank. All the successful plays have some method of measuring one popularity/authority.
- Christian Anderson
A just for fun startup - a true and reliable way to rank internet success, while we have ffholic, twitterholic, compete, quantcast, and other systems, where is the one that ties all this together, is reliable, is accurate, and can not be gamed?
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Jason: yep, a location-aware iPhone app from mahalo could do what you want.
- Christian Anderson
Dan: isn't that internal conversion tracking tools? Or were you wanting to measure other sites?
- Christian Anderson
this probably exsits (someone let me know if it does) but when I comment on blogs I want it to update FF automatically - eg Disquss...
- Nigel Walsh
Ok. try this one on for size. I'm gonna create a website where every feature, including the first thing we build, is decided by a weekly vote of our users.
- Jason Goldberg
I'd like to see a location based social network built around graveyards. You'd create a profile and reserve a physical plot of land and be buried there when you die. Your tombstone would display random status updates you posted to the web throughout your life. And you could look up your dead friends graves on google earth. I've thought about this!
- Jon Gosier
give me a chip no bigger than a credit card which recharges my blackberry in 10 minutes
- Jason Goldberg
an online incubator that turned an idea(s) into a working site in days not weeks or months..
- Nigel Walsh
Days? Let's throw something together, halfassed, let it go down all the time while we get it working over many years. Days would be great, but if you want something good, you can't throw it together in days.
- Dean Clark
Company that makes an iPhone app for SocialMedian
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
from BuddyFeed
I'd like to see a mashup that would work for open networks like twitter, digg, friendfeed etc. that would allow community walls. a block would trigger a whole community to block the same person till a person within the community unblocked. open networks are dying because people don't want to comment on threads with people that they know they don't like. it could be voluntary. we would call these "Unions" and you would have to agree to be a part of one and you could always leave.
- Noah David Simon
Some great ideas here. Really like the unified communications idea.
- Gavin
How about a startup that encourages hobbies for school aged children
- Anthony Farrior
or a startup/networks for artists and animation. Perhaps something that has online tools and copyright ownership. For an extra fee provide help with networking and distribution.
- Anthony Farrior
or a start up like peek that provide gps and text communication between parents and kids
- Anthony Farrior
or a start up for upcoming clothing designers(not tee shirt stuff) where,again, for an extra fee, networking and real store distribution is provided.
- Anthony Farrior
last one, someone PLEASE make me a mobile video phone...As in "Hi yes, i can hear you and see you."
- Anthony Farrior
A free 'app' that helps re-educate those displaced by the Internet / automation / tech revolution.
- Charlie Anzman
Jason, this would be a great idea for a room here. You could create an identical one on socialmedian and import the RSS feed from it over here. If I have one criticism about friendfeed, it’s that so much of what is shared here, winds up in the rear view mirror, and is quickly forgotten.
- Michael Fidler
I can see why you would like a location based service like the one you described. There’s something like it on the iPhone, but I tried to find the name of it on Google with no luck. Additionally a lot of information just became public which would help with such an app. I would like something along the lines of what Rob mentioned, "A unified communication platform". I have a few more ideas but I need to find some info. first.
- Michael Fidler
Jason, there’s a site like the one you mentioned about user decided features also. Loic used it to decide what features to add to Twhirl. It’s called Uservoice http://bit.ly/ykT5
- Michael Fidler
We've already started a series of hyperlocal "best of Twitter" city sites like http://BreakingLANews.com. It's a grass roots initiative that provides these city templates free to community hubs and groups in each city, down to towns like Chico, CA http://ChicoBreakingNews.com. It's a unique way to propagate a new hyperlocal marketing model that, unlike sites like Topix, directly involves members of the community.
- Pat Kitano
Expanding on the UC idea, I was thinking someone could write a connector for twitter that in essence links twitter to all other chat clients, ie if you tweet msn:ndwalsh then you chat with me.. Same for skype:nigelwals, icq: etc etc... The ultimate comms platform
- Nigel Walsh
click sharing company
- Thomas Power
An easy way to discover new websites, not content, but great websites. Check out http://www.lynki.com
- Aloke Fernandes
@michaelfidler: yes, we use uservoice at XING. It's a great tool! What I'm talking about is using a tool like uservoice in a whole new way, to decide everything from the first line of code onwards.
- Jason Goldberg
Hmm I work on a location based iPhone app and unfortunately the GPS is too often not accurate enough to pinpoint the building you're in but can usually narrow you down to a 100 meter area. Also we need a magnetometer on the iPhone to do any accurate pointing (but it's coming in june they say...)
- Raj Advani
Raj, the other option would be to provide users a 3D map of nearby buildings so that they could use their human intelligence to find their correct location. But that might be hard to implement in an iPhone app. ;-)
- Bruce Lewis
Nigel Walsh, Backtype will import all your comments on blogs to FF. FF is even smart about not duplicating your Disqus items here.
- Bruce Lewis
Rob Diana: your TV-Example is exactly what http://hunch.com is all about.
- Richard Metzler
Haha Bruce I was going to say wait a minute...
- Raj Advani
I like Thomas Hawk's idea of starting a company to comb through old game shows and then selling the DVDs at outrageous markups to the original contestants or their family. http://thomashawk.com/2005...
- Davis Freeberg
"Location based aggregated travel info" => Nokia Maps & Lonely Planet: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Thomas Amberg
One of my weird ideas: Create a User Profile Management Site that allows users to create / update a common "User profile" (could have multiple "personality" profiles - work, personal, family, etc). The profile site updates would push out to a gazillion other sites and update user profile settings with each update. API adoption by a number of other apps is a must, obviously. The idea...
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- Susan Beebe
Distributed Indexing (Search Engine, Classifieds, Auctions, Real Estate) Like MLS for web directories / search engines.
- Matt Robson
@Susan I've been thinking of something like that for a while.
- Gavin
@Susan, @Gavin something like chi.mp maybe?
- Dragos Ilinca
Do we really need another 100 startups? I'd rather see one or two excellent startups come through and form their place on the web then seeing 100 coming through and all burning. Some of the ideas listed are pretty interesting and it would be cool if some of them were implemented although I'd like to see a few of the ideas merged together to see a more feature rich and useful service for users.
- Nicholas James
I'd really appreciate some feed back on the idea I stated above. I think it addresses a very serious issue in making "open" networks acceptable to the mainstream. I'd really like to hear from some tech people if it is feasible: making open networks acceptable for more people http://ff.im/3i7y9
- Noah David Simon
Coin-based economy for kids to help them skirt the issue entirely of having to ask parents for their credit card to play online games. Coins are kid money (and their parents nuisance money). Let's get coin value translated to online money and watch the revenue pour in.
- scott epstein
I want an app that will accurately predict the closing price of the Dow for any given day in the future. I know it’s not realistic, just call me a dreamer.
- Michael Fidler
Jason, I was thinking about your idea today, and that would be an interesting experiment. You could call it Tabula rasa. It’s definitely worth trying.
- Michael Fidler
I had this startup-idea: http://prezi.com/20331/view/ but I droped it. Now I have another one: 1. Start a communities for science & business topics, 2. provide Conference-Life-Streams with Twitter-Comments as usp like this: http://www.ustream.tv/channel..., 3. Provide further information like news, topic-monitoring (twitter), publications-research, 4. Track the use...
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- www.louis-e.de
oh, it's a bit similar to social median, I see ;-) Didn't know that before, sorry. But I can't find info-portals with meme-tracking-technique there. And no conference-streaming. So will built your competitor, haha...
- www.louis-e.de
Just in case people really liked the "unified communications platform" idea, I believe it is now called Wave, from Google (http://wave.google.com/).
- Rob Diana
Nother idea for startup: when riding public transport, service sends notification when friends are on the same train/bus etc.
- André Gallinat
You were right on the money, Rob. Nice Job!
- Michael Fidler
A Google Wave app that integrates with Google Health to provide real-time healthcare between Payers and Providers
- Jesse Stay
What service is growing faster than Twitter but that most Americans have never heard of? Answer here:
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I met the CEO this week and he was being praised by many at the Charles River Ventures Summit.
- Robert Scoble
Friendfeed
- Varun Mahajan
And, no, I am not talking about friendfeed.
- Robert Scoble
"My favorite underhyped company is GupShup, which stands for "chit chat" in India. They got to 20 million users in two years. Twitter took more time to reach that many users" ?
- Edwin Khodabakchian
redhat - ;)
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Zimbio?
- Paul Holmes
leatherdonut.com? =D
- ld
zoho?
- Varun Mahajan
Twoater.com?
- Paul Holmes
flutter
- Deanna McNeil
zimbo has huge growth, we "study" them a lot :)
- sean percival
Edwin: bing!
- Robert Scoble
orkut :P
- Dave Mora
Installation of Purell dispensers in all public spaces.
- Gregg Scott
On the Edwin note, what's that relative percentage wise penetration in the India market vs. Twitter in the USA?
- Chris
Geocities? :-P
- Amit Morson
GupShup has revenues too. 20 million people in India are getting a cell phone every month which shows why they are able to grow so fast.
- Robert Scoble
Was GupShup the service you were talking about?
- Frankie Warren
Zousa.com has something like 34 Million Users.
- Brandon Wirtz
You could probably start a Spanish twitter tomorrow and from a growth rate destroy the competition.
- Brandon Wirtz
Is there revenue a cut of the SMS or do they sell virtual goods?
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Any Second Language clone will reach market saturation faster than the original.
- Brandon Wirtz
Gandu.com?
- ld
It's either GupShup, or that one for kids that is so huge...?
- Elizabeth Good
Robert: What is their revenue model?
- Joe Lima
(The realtime aspect of friendfeed is really interesting)
- Edwin Khodabakchian
FriendFeed looks alot nicer than the last time I was here.
- Paul Holmes
GupShup Spams SMS users with ads as a revenue model
- Brandon Wirtz
Most US Users would quit if Twitter used that model
- Brandon Wirtz
I bet boardgamegeek.com is growing fast from a relative perspective. It is the definitive source of information for the boardgame hobby community.
- Peter Kelley
Trust me, even Indians havent heared of it much, including me. Came to know it from Robert's post only.
- Roshan Ramachandran
BoardgameGeek.com hasn't grown in 6 months, it gets 80% of its traffic from Ad clicks, and only does about 10k uniques a day
- Brandon Wirtz
Okay Robert, we want to know...it's bedtime here in CA (you should know!) ;-)
- Elizabeth Good
he answered the question already Elizabeth. Look up.
- geoff hines
Hmm.....? sorry....
- Elizabeth Good
Ok, I'm out. Indian Clone of Twitter that uses phone spam as a revenue model is far from exciting.
- Brandon Wirtz
Oh, I see, it was "bing" lol. Missed that! G'night all.
- Elizabeth Good
What service are you talking about?
- Pedro Remedios
Pedro: GupShup in India. Got to 20 million users in two years. Took Twitter about three years to get to that level.
- Robert Scoble
Brandon: you care to tell us how you know this information?
- Peter Kelley
Brandon knows the Internet intimately. He understands where traffic comes frommore than anyone I have met.
- Robert Scoble
You ask me that same thing again after a year or two and my answer would be http://www.blogpandit.com ..... my blog ;)
- Amey Palyekar
Fitness Centers!
- Chris Poulson
Interesting to know the info then. I haven't heard Derk Solko or Scott Alden disclose any of it before
- Peter Kelley
Laconi.ca methinks
- Dermot G
Facebook. No other service is growing faster.
- Garin Kilpatrick
Interesting that only 2 of the comments appear to be from women Amey and Elizabeth). Guess we actually just talk to one another in person and don't need artificial tools to connect?
- sherry reynolds
Garin~ I think people have heard of Facebook...if not where have they been the past year or two..
- James Armfield
love the mix of spam, txt spk & cricket updates on the featured list http://www.smsgupshup.com/
- Ian Crocombe
WashroomSeXXX
- Billy Warhol
Garin: I don't think Facebook got to 20 million users in less than two years. In fact, I'm pretty sure that they didn't.
- Robert Scoble
have heard good things about gupshup's scaling and relative lack of fail-whales
- Mike Chelen
SmsGupShup.com could hit 20 million users with SMS because there are 400 million cell phone subscribers in India, versus only 38 million people there with access to a computer (not to be confused with computer owners). These statistics are from a statement Vickrum Crishna made in an interview on Dawn TV last week. However, because GupShup use depends on email access, I’m skeptical of their figure of 20 million users now. Burners = dupes. Unrelated: what are Ning's numbers globally?
- A Mitchell
A dollar bill taped to the floor of friendfeed's offices: - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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This is a dollar bill taped to the floor of FriendFeed's headquarters. It's a bit of social engineering. They figured out it kept people from tripping on the cord cover because people noticed the money on the floor.
- Robert Scoble
Hahaha, now that is brilliant stuff. Awesome.
- James Mowery
from twhirl
This is a fantastic idea.
- Jeremy Botter
Wouldn't last long in my office.
- Ralph Whitbeck
Amazing.. think I could use this idea in a few places.
- Roberto Bonini
Clever! i love it.
- Kurai (ff)
from twhirl
Simple, clever, great idea. That FriendFeed crew is a bunch of smart fellers!
- Brandon Wood
My employer is too frugal to do that.
- Jonathon
Inexpensive risk management.
- Dave Pelland
Ha! Very clever.
- Brent Newhall
brilliant
- mjc
Wow! I'm speechless.
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
nice
- Mike Collett
The dollar bill trick doesn’t work with strippers though ;)
- Moved to Facebook
@Earl: Consider it a stripper-filter, then. You know someone's a stripper if they trip over it.
- April Buchheit
for some reason i expect a "stripper filter" to be something coded using regular expressions. sad, i know.
- Karim
The message here is that Web 2.0 companies are so ignorant of money and revenue that they even step over a dollar on the floor
- Jason Carreira
from twhirl
Genius!!!
- Joe Dawson
Interesting. The photo has been viewed more than 500 times, but has only earned 62 likes and 19 comments. So, for every 1 thing we can see here there's another 9 people hanging out lurking in the shadows.
- Robert Scoble
@Scoble the old 90-9-1 rule :) (well almost)
- Naor Mark
You could always just superglue some road kill to those things. Nothing gets people's attention more than a dead opossum.
- Andrew Leyden
wow, that's funny smart!
- Susan Beebe
I stubbed my toe on that dollar.
- Michael Muller
Heath And Safety in the UK would not approve....but I do!
- Toby Graham
"but has only earned 62 likes". This currently stands as the most-liked Flickr photo of all time.
- Vezquex: God of FF
I forgot about that photo. It does work, though. Everytime I visit friendfeed's offices I see the dollar and I'm careful not to trip over it. :-)
- Robert Scoble
That's dumb. Why couldn't they afford to run the cord somewhere where it wouldn't be in the way in the first place?
- Robert Peña
As an IE I can state that's definitely not something to publicize. Definitely not OSHA Kosher.
- Adi
Great idea will have to remember this.
- Laura Gonzalez
Reminds me of the deli counter in grocery store in Scotts Valley across the street from NorCal offices of MetaCreations (the Fractal Design arm of it). Local companies'd go there for lunch daily. PROBLEM: Deli counter pencils (for marking your sandwich menu) disappeared at frightful rate. SOLUTION: Deli affixed pencils with price label. Price: $100.00. Pencils stayed at store. :)
- Susan A. Kitchens
Haha I like that trick for keeping Pens from going missing Susan!
- Garin Kilpatrick
Gallery: From Mind-Blowing to Mockery -- The iPhone 2 Mocked Up - http://www.wired.com/gadgets...
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"From Mind-Blowing to Mockery — The iPhone 2 Mocked Up"
- Shellee
some very cool next gen concept iphones
- Fred Neil
Wicked
- Garin Kilpatrick
Tour of SmugMug's offices and monster big photos - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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wow - great stuff Robert! Wish I were there - looks like not only some beautiful images but the user group seems very impressive. Thanks for the peek inside!
- planetMitch
Great video.
- Loren Heiny
Really impressive! Thanks for sharing! LM
- lygea
The group effort to innovate to achieve the end result photographs of buildings - fantastic!
- Micah Wittman
It was a great meeting last night!! Even got on-site help with an issue I was having.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Cemaphore syncs Outlook with Gmail - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
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That would solve the Outlook side of switching to Google Apps. Still need the full Active Sync support for the iPhone or Windows Mobile.
- Andrew
was pretty sure Outlook and Gmail already supported IMAP ;-)
- Karim
The big difference with Cemaphore seems to be that it also syncs calendar and contact data. It does this by using MAPI which allows them to do true 2-way sync. I think this is a potential step forward in breaking the outlook/exchange strangle hold on calendaring and contacts and hope they do well.
- Martin Leonard
well looking at the pricing on Cemaphore and comparing it to the pricing on Exchange doesn't bode well for broken strangleholds. likewise losing push email on the iPhone & other devices doesn't seem like a winning proposition...
- Karim
Nikki Cox proves plastic surgery can sometimes be bad - http://www.inquisitr.com/20506...
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I wish people would stop with this plastic surgery. Folks are messing up their bodies.
- Damond Nollan
Well, at least she was hot *once*... I guess that's something. LOL.
- Herb Hernandez
yuk
- johnpiercy
Herb, that's a positive spin :-)
- Duncan Riley
She's looking like a hot mess.
- Derrick
30????
- Anika
harsh...
- JA Castillo
why on earth would somebody wear that top with ... well. you get the idea (very sad - looks near 50!)
- Susan Beebe
Don't mind me ya'll, I'll just be off in the corner updating my list of celebrities I'm allowed to sleep with.
- Joe Pierce
LOL @Joe.
- Anika
gravity sucks
- johnpiercy
never mind the teets ... look at the fake upper lip ... sheesh louise
- johnpiercy
shes got more plastic in her ,, than a bag of legos
- johnpiercy
Wait...maybe it isn't plastic surgery. Is it possible that Jay Mohr is some kind of life sucking demon? I mean look at that smug look on his face. He knows something...
- Joe Pierce
Eww.
- Zach Flauaus
It reminds me that I don't wonder at the poor girls who can barely walk out their door because something is amiss; a hair out of place, something physically not perfect according to the latest Madison avenue magazine definitions. Did they create that culture or did we? Are they just responding to our demands for the impossible? We say no, but why do articles like this gain our attention if that is so? Do we need to really say no? Would this industry finally disappear if we made that plain?
- Melanie Reed
And Jay Mohr is looking like the dad from The Incredibles.
- Anika
Or are we just basically saying to women like Niki: "We want you to let us look at you when you are young and then when we have gotten you used to all that attention for just looking the way you do, we want you to have the "decency" to get off the stage when you can't look that way anymore." Why do you suppose this is so or not so? And if not, what should women like Niki Cox do?
- Melanie Reed
No, Melanie..that's not it at all.
- Anika
Anika, she just looks like a person to me. I expect people to change. Whether that is drastic or not it gets to the point for me anymore that I don't want to notice that as the first thing. I want to know you. I want to know who you are....not what you look like. :)
- Melanie Reed
If she was aging gracefully, this would be one thing. I have no idea who this person is beyond what I read on via the link. But she's only 30. What we are seeing is the ravages of too much plastic surgery. It's not a natural change.
- Anika
Anika, That's my point. Look at our comments and now pretend to be Nikki. How would you take them as Nikki? I'm sorry to say it, but our culture just has not allowed women to "age gracefully" and still treat them the same. We don't see beauty in them as they age. It doesn't matter what they do or don't do. The comments about how they look follow. They're everywhere you go. I think society bears at least some responsibility.
- Melanie Reed
Comments about plastic surgery aside, the photographer who took this shot took other photos where the couple still looks fabulous (http://tinyurl.com/dnkhl8). Everyone can take a bad photo...and unfortunately, it seems that once women AND men are of a certain age, the bad ones sell better than the good.
- Jess
? That's her mom. right?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Oh, well see I think that's a load of crap. Women can and do age gracefully all the time and men (and women) still drool over them. And when these people (men or women) get all this frivolous plastic surgery done, it's clearly not for us because most people are immediately turned off by it.
- Anika
I should add, that I'm thinking of Faye Dunaway. She lived down the street from me & whenever people saw her, they'd comment on how lovely she looked. Then she had all that work done a few years ago. It was hideous & she didn't need it, but it's done. She didn't do that for us. She did that for herself.
- Anika
damn I had a huge celeb crush on her in high school
- Adam Ostrow
The Facebook iPhone app has been reworked and open-sourced - http://venturebeat.com/2009...
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Twenty-Two Years Of Job Creation Wiped Out In One Day - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
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Wow..that really puts a perspective on things
- Bwana ☠
from Friend Deck
That's a pretty dramatic title. If there is a downturn, it is probably because it was needed. More opportunities will come out of this.
- Fatmanur Erdogan
that's a bit skewed though - I'm pretty sure some jobs were created yesterday too, people hired etc. Companies are still hiring, especially in the SMB sector. He says 200 companies created that many jobs in 20 years - but how what we need to compare the loss with is with how many jobs were created across the country in those 22 years?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Clinton managed 2.9 million jobs per year.; Bush , less than 300,000. We will be cleaning up his mess for a generation.
- Phil Boiarski
I dont think you can blame it on them that directly
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
@Joelle You may not think so, but the media and history will see this as happening on a certain president's watch. Like they won't try to blame Obama if he fails.
- Phil Boiarski
This is a very skewed article. There are too many factors that are being ignored.
- Spencer
Holy Crap, that is the most egregious abuse of mathematics I've seen in a long time. Comparing a small sample to a large sample without even scaling? If I would have submitted any paper like that in my scientist days, I would have been taken out and flogged with rolled up Nature magazines.
- Robert Hafer
In the hotel lobby at Davos and Loic and Mike walks in - http://www.seesmic.com/video...
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Nice to see you guys bonding in the snow...
- Mathieu Ayel
On the bus here we were talking about all the people who aren't coming to Davos this year. Definitely feels "poorer" but due to Madoff.
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Crowdsourcing FriendFeed Lists - http://itafroma.tumblr.com/post...
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One of the time consuming aspects of FriendFeed involves categorizing people into lists: if you get past a few basic lists (like, perhaps, a list for people you don’t want to have on your home feed), you can easily spend a good portion of time just moving people around. But I want to be able to use topical lists: if I want to view all my subscriptions that share science fiction stuff, I can just look at the list. To do this on my own would take a lot of time, so I’m asking you guys what you’d categorize yourself as, given a specific set of topics. Click through to see the list, and leave a comment here with your topical interests!
- Mark Trapp
from Bookmarklet
I've cultivated a general sense of lazyness. :) All my FF subs in are in my home feed. If someone's not worth following there, I unsub. I want to spend the minimum amount of time managing the infrastructure, and most of my time in the content.
- mikepk
like me mikapk, I do that myself at the mo.... :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
uh lets not be silly...what you look for is tags,...lets wait till FF gets them
- Chris Hofmann
I think mine would be "useless knowledge" or "interesting pictures". At least, I hope they are interesting.
- Yolanda
I'm mainly interested in finding out what people I'm subscribed to would categorize themselves, given the list of topics. Foregoing the use of lists isn't what I'm looking to do.
- Mark Trapp
Well I'd put myself in Entrepreneurs, Science, Development or Tech Beat (just cause I share a lot of tech stuff)... It's a question of what I share vs what I am.
- mikepk
Fair enough Mark, ergo I'll delete my previous comment.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Mike: in the land of FriendFeed, you're defined by what you share. Thanks for answering, though. :)
- Mark Trapp
Well your descriptions make me think a bit too "Writes regularly on tech news" I don't write on the news, generally, but I do share tech news. Entrepreneurs, I'm a startup founder, but do I qualify for "Runs a social media company or other notable company". We're working on the notable part. Probably thinking too hard on it. :)
- mikepk
Ahem. I would like to pretend that "Tech Beat" would be the list for me!
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Mike, other people may use what people answer here for their own purposes, but at least for my own personal programme, the baseline is me: notability, for me, would be "have I heard of your company?" On FriendFeed, you don't seem to talk about your company in the way that say, Loic LeMeur does about Seesmic, or Paul Buchheit does about FriendFeed, so I wouldn't have put you on the list. But now that you've mentioned it: what is your company?
- Mark Trapp
And regarding the tech shares, it's a personal distinction, but I distinguish people who write for say, Mashable or VentureBeat, and people who share a lot of tech stuff. The former would be "tech beat," the latter would probably be "cabal." But really, it doesn't matter too much: since the only person implementing the lists would be me, if I disagree with how someone categorizes...
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- Mark Trapp
You can't typecast someone's stream at one point it'll be about coding at another a LOLcat ff allows for personality that way. If you're looking for strict subject matter you'll have to RSS official sources, however in regards to me ~ I'd be listed under genius
- sofarsoShawn
Categorizing people doesn't make nearly as much as sense as tagging posts. Individual people have multiple interests, especially on Friendfeed. I wish I could tag each of my posts, and create lists of tags rather than people. The way I currently use lists is: Home Feed (everything), and Favs. That's it.
- Jason Wehmhoener
sofaroshawn, Jason, and Chris: I wish FriendFeed had keyword filtering and tagging, I really do. I've been harping about it for months. However, failing that, I have found that many people do gravitate towards certain topics. Robert Scoble, for example, isn't sharing stories about sexuality or what happened on House last week. Yes, people post on a variety of things, and Robert Scoble,...
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- Mark Trapp
Mark, the company is called Grazr. We've evolved two products over time, Grazr being an OPML browser / feed widget / topical reading list hosting service, and VibeMetrix, which is a social media marketing program. We've got a third product we're beta testing now, an add-on for Google alerts to allow finer grained filtering / seo data / and control of them.
- mikepk
They seem disconnected, but all are based on our relatively large feed database and feed processing engine.
- mikepk
LOL keep trying then
- sofarsoShawn
@Mark - You can put me in Cabal, Comedy, Comics, Development, Diarist, Entrepreneurs, Food, Gaming, Pictures, Politics, Pollster, Science Fiction, Sex, Silly, Tech Beat, TV/Movies, and Usability - I believe I've posted as all of those "types" here at various times... Sorry my interests are so varied. :)
- Nathan Chase
@Nathan Done, I was looking for someone to round out my Cabal list, now all I need is an expert on goldfish, anyone know of one?
- sofarsoShawn
@Mark Put me in Comics and TV/Movies
- Dan Liebke
I could list the subjects I post but it would cover most of those you have in your table. Variety is the spice of life. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I don't see "noisy asshole" on that list. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'd need to be in a "wannabe geek with hippy tendencies" list
- Nicola Quinn
Mike: sweet, thanks for the description. Dan, thanks for your response. Nathan, Kol, et al: yeah, I get it, you don't categorize people or yourself, but that's not particularly interesting or helpful given my programme. Everyone isn't Da Vinci: people specialize and gravitate towards specific interests. People would be rather dull if they talked about and were interested in everything...
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- Mark Trapp
tech geek, photoshop artist, internationally published poet.
- Phil Boiarski
I tend to agree with Jason. Tagging posts would be a very interesting feature of friendfeed instead of/in addition to listing people. Even though most people might have a basic behavioral usage of friendfeed I think many of us use it very much depending on our mood.
- Peter Efland
You'll have to put me in the category of soup. I can't really pick out only 1 thing. That would leave too much still there and not considered. And I go through phases, too. Current phase is a lot of software & music related stuff. Reason: about to head into a highly productive stretch with a lot of coding. Existing software gives me ideas, and lots of background music will be needed while I am working.
- April Russo (app103)
i may also be in soup... :|
- edythe
i'd say soup, but can't decide which flavor.
- Karim
I would say "tech", but too bad we can't someone tag ourselves for automatic list created by FF itself...that would be sweet.
- Sarah Perez
Now that's a cool idea, Sarah. Given the feedback in this post, however, I wonder how much value it would have if people tag themselves with everything. Now, if it were completely automated, and FriendFeed came up with user tags automatically for people, that might make it more honest all around.
- Mark Trapp
I cannot be categorize nor tagged, I am in an aristocratic class of itself. Maybe "landed gentry" would suffice?
- sofarsoShawn
My Davos Question: how do we create one million new startups with a failed VC system? http://www.youtube.com/davos
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you're not going to find the answer at #davos where thinking stays inside the box.
- ernie yacub
My 2 qs to you (1) who wants 1 million start ups, and (2) do you really think capitalism has failed 'cause thats what yer sayin.
- shelisrael1
What do startups have to do with VCs? If an idea isn't good enough to get started without VCs, then it isn't good enough to get started with them. Look at all the startups that popped up after the tech bust...how many of them had VC backing? The VC system hasn't failed anymore than the housing mortgage system has failed.
- Alex Scoble
VC is not the only financing model out there, and for most internet startups, you don't need much $$ to launch. You should be able to fund your idea yourself to a degree, or partner with a developer, esp since most VC firms don't invest under $1 mil. Some do but alot don't.
- Patricia
Related question to WEF attendees - how do they see innovation happening without startups?
- Bankwatch
Perhaps I am out of the loop on this one, but don't most VC's only want to invest in companies that are past the "two guys in a garage stage"? I realize some VC's do look to get in on the ground floor, but isn't that more the exception than the rule?
- Joe Lima
In Austin all I hear is "there's no early-stage capital". And Austin isn't alone. The system IS broken, if VC's won't "venture"
- Carter Rabasa
VCs operate like any other investor. The good ones have a variety of portfolios from "seed" (high risk early investments) to "strategic" (lower risk later stage). The challenge is finding the right mix. Part of what is broken is that every "startup" with a prototype and 2 customers thinks they want/need "funding". What they really need is customers who pay them.
- Brian Roy
asking one old boy network how to deal with the "failure" of another old boy network? isn't that like asking the people who crashed and burned the world economy for tips on running the world economy? oh, wait...
- Karim
A loaded question like "Why did you beat your wife" re: "with a failed VC system". There are 2 types of VCs- 1) Those who #1 want their money back: stay away from them. 2) Those that want to help you change the world or do something X10 better while making money at it. I like those, and they can call me anytime. How to create 1 million new start-ups is the right question, period.
- William Mougayar
Here's a nice piece from HBR on the issue, "Asleep at the Wheel of Creative Destruction" http://bit.ly/4eo8RG
- Mike Elliott
Are you ready for virtual actors in movies? - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
James Guske, Mihai Secasiu, Jeff P. Henderson and 12 other people liked this
it feels like we're already there sometimes.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
i'm with Jason - too late, we're already there.
- Warren Butler
It will never be the same with virtual "people". It's almost impossible to create human like feelings and emotions portrayed on screen.
- Alex Carpenter
They could have just used a virtual Brad Pitt for the whole Benjamin Button movie. All it'd have to do is stare at the side of the camera, stricken with a dumb look. Most of the new generation of actors in Hollywood & tv do basically the same. Couldn't get much worse is what I'm saying.
- Christopher Galtenberg
@Alex: Yeah, Keanu's always had that problem.
- Yan
Alex: the directors are saying that isn't true anymore. They are already mixing in virtual actors into the real ones to do scenes that are too dangerous, or too expensive. They predict we'll soon see a movie made with virtual ones that will be very hard to tell from real ones.
- Robert Scoble
I think virtual actors would only work well in place of actors like Keanu Reeves.
- Shane Floyd
Just discovered I was about the write exactly the same thing as Shane Floyd it seems. Great to know I am not the only one. More seriously though, for a lot of the background roles, I think virtual actors are going to become more and more common place, but as for main characters, not quite yet. That said, if the actors decide to go on strike again, who knows.
- James Fridley
What would you call Keaneau Reeves?
- sofarsoShawn
Next, virtual stars in virtual Hollywood on a virtual red carpet.
- Phil Boiarski
Jar Jar binks? -5
- Bill Romanos
Are you trying to tell me that Keanu Reeves is a real actor? A virtual talent?
- Rob McNair-Huff
Happy sixth birthday WordPress! - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
Kyle, Gavin, muzo and 39 other people liked this
I love Wordpress. The hosted version I use, wordpress.com, has been the most reliable service in my life. That's a huge testimonial to how good it is and how well Matt and his team thought it all out. Thank you!
- Robert Scoble
So you're saying that WP and my daughter were born on the same day? I still think I got the better end of the deal! ;)
- Lucretia Pruitt
WordPress birthday is one day before mine? Must be a good sign. I love both my WP.org blog and WP.com site. They are a great company and really get their community too. WordCampSF was an amazing experience this year.
- Morgan
As great as it is, I'm doing a lot of yelling at it right now lol
- Dean Clark
Happy Birthday Wordpress- I use you for my blog and I love it.
- Rob Cairns
Happy Birthday WordPress!
- Drew Lucas
from twhirl
Six years, already? Can't believe that much time has gone by. I came from Movable Type and started using Wordpress prior to version 1.5. Switched my last blog to WP when MT had problems handling the large amount of posts. With WP I have always liked the simplicity and ease of use. I hope it stays that way.
- Donald Townsend
from twhirl
Happy B-day WP!
- Adriana
Happy birthday. Great platform
- Håkan Dahlström
Yeah... Happy Birthday WP. If anyone told me some 2 decades ago, that i would ever leave a birthday with for some lines of codes ... oh well... things changed and WP definately changed my life, too.
- Sascha Pallenberg
Happy birthday to WordPress. I use the self-hosted one and it is by far the best blogging platform you can use. Very much recommended to all bloggers!
- Marko Saric
Now I know why I was having so many problems designing a new theme yesterday. I guess it was upset that I hadn't wished it a happy birthday. Happy birthday WordPress, now be nice to me today.
- Keith Beucler
Now please go away to make room for _good_ software.
- ·[▪_▪]·
WordPress.com introduced me to the blogosphere and enabled me to share my voice with people from the US to the UK and beyond. Happy 6th birthday WordPress, you old-timer you!
- Joe Mescher
Long Life WordPress: Code Is Poetry! :-)
- Adriano Gasparri
FACEBOOK USERS: READ. NOW. - http://pixelbits.wordpress.com/2009...
"Joey", Søren Larsen, LouCypher and 58 other people liked this
HELLO? There is a major Facebook scam and we (FB users) haven't been notified. If you're on Facebook, this applies to you.
- Mona Nomura
thanks... ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
It was covered by TechCrunch on the 20th and WSJ yesterday - my friend almost fell for it today. This is no joke...
- Mona Nomura
They've gotta be in a quandry - if they say something, they may cause a panic and severe loss of confidence in the whole system. If they don't, the problem gets worse.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
They need to at least put in chat: "Do not give money to anyone asking via Facebook chat."
- Mona Nomura
on the other hand, if you want to scam your friends out of some money, use facebook and in a few days just blame it on getting hacked.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Serious! They have so many PR problems, and now more without putting out a warning
- sofarsoShawn
If I saw a friend's status as: "Need urgent help, I've been robbed." I would help them right away - this is scary.
- Mona Nomura
reshared it and shared it on facebook.
- Rob Sellen :o)
Thanks, Rob. :)
- Mona Nomura
from IM
I'm also resharing this on facebook. People should know.
- Carmen
What is the most baffling is, Facebook knew about it for a few days. How many people need to be scammed before Facebook finally notifies us? I guess we'll find out — on the six o’clock news. Unacceptable. Thanks Carmen. :)
- Mona Nomura
from IM
NEED URGENT HELP! Have been Lazy! Please send beer/pizza immediately!
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
I've tweeted it, weird it doesn't show a dupe
- sofarsoShawn
Thanks you guys - it just sucks that there are people who take advantage of good hearted people. :(
- Mona Nomura
from IM
I'm good hearted, but none of these hot women will take advantage of me
- Josh Haley
@Mona & that those who can help prevent it don't do so ie Zuckerbum it's pissing me off enough I"m going to bookmark it everywhere
- sofarsoShawn
Sean - Facebook has a lot of problems. My friend's friend had issues finding the contact form to report the fraud... :\
- Mona Nomura
for sure, contacting them is next to impossible & response time is forever ~ I just sent that pic though w/ the URL through both slide & funspace I know I'm a troublemaker
- sofarsoShawn
:o not good.
- Nia
Thanks for sharing this info on FB accounts being hijacked.
- sean808080
Has there been any acknowledgement from Facebook on this scam yet?
- Kevin Whalen
from twhirl
Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt spoke to WSJ.
- Mona Nomura
reshared on Twitter
- Leslie Poston
Thanks, Leslie. A lot of people are commenting amongst the lines of: "If they're stupid enough to fall for that scam, they deserve it." I disagree. If the Facebook spokesman can address the WSJ, they should warn users.
- Mona Nomura
Re: How blogging was born (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
Fred Neil liked this
"I don't have an issue with it Zee -- I'm just reproducing Hugh's work here. I understand that he doesn't mind as long as he gets a linkback, so if you update your post to link back to the original he very likely will be happy! :-) Every one likes a little link-love."
- Dave Winer
Free Pre-Release Copy: Personal Branding Magazine - Issue 7 - http://personalbrandingmag.com/FinalCo...
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Apparently going from Year of the Rat to the Ox means bull turns to bear in Asian stocks: http://ginx.com/-75se Markets can't catch a break
Fred Neil liked this
New Twhirl Preview Release Adds Seesmic Recording, Ping.fm Support - http://www.inquisitr.com/16348...
Bryan R. Adams, Fred Neil and Kol Tregaskes liked this
Re: Twitter….What Would You Pay? - http://howardlindzon.com/...
Fred Neil, Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct and Prakash Swaminathan liked this
"this is yet another reason why we need a market in private company stock. you can buy FB common at $9-11/share in the secondary market but you cannot buy any of these other stocks. so we don't know what the real valuations are for the other companies on your list. everything else is speculation and wrong."
- Fred Wilson
Carol Bartz’s First-Week-at-Yahoo Memo to the Troops | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD - http://kara.allthingsd.com/2009012...
Fred Neil liked this
"From: Carol Bartz Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 3:12 PM To: all-worldwide@yahoo-inc.com Subject: My First Friday It’s Friday! Wow, this week has gone fast. I thought I’d give you a quick idea of how things went for me this week. First, a BIG thank you for all the positive comments you’ve sent my way. It has really made me feel welcome. And a special big thanks to all the guys (that’d be Willie, Anthony, Jack, Allen, Daryl, Nathan, Ali, etc.) that worked so quickly to get Judy and I up and running. I know I told you at the all-hands that I was going to be bringing my lunch. That was before I saw the cafeteria–it rocks! Forget that leftover stuff! My first impression of the Yahoos is that you guys are smart and dedicated, and have a lot of great energy with a can-do attitude (ok, maybe there’s some sucking up because I’m the boss, but it impressed the heck out of me). I wasn’t too happy to see some “inside sources” quoting my all-hands comments to the outside press–STOP IT! And while we’re o"
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
After she left Autodesk, they laid-off 250, I think.
- W. Kirk Crawford
Re: Scale Economics - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
Fred Neil and Sebastian Wain liked this
"Great comment Sounds like you know a lot about this sector"
- Fred Wilson
Another riff on Twitter: http://phandy.com/ is Twitter for photos. Answers "what are you seeing?" @phandy
anne-mette, Fred Neil, Daniel Rowley and 5 other people liked this
not bad.
- Orli Yakuel
But only bookmarks...it's incomplete..(flickr integration? i think that we have Friendfeed yet).
- Dario Salvelli
what's the difference with visualize.us? where's the twitter autonotification? it's interesting but still lacks some integration imho
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
If you need to be abused beg for a follow from 1938media. He will give you the Soup Nazi attitude and he won't follow you anyway.
Fred Neil, Daniel Rowley, Kol Tregaskes and 14 other people liked this
Any Soup Nazi reference is a good Soup Nazi reference ...
- Patrick Jordan
I think that's the old 1938media. Now he has as many follows as followers
- Michael Markman
actually, he just unfollowed everyone again as of the last 12 hours. :p
- Christine Lu
Christine is right. I always knew he was pulling everyone's leg when he started following everyone. I wonder how he unfollowed everyone, though? Manually clicked them off? That's dedication!
- Robert Scoble
I'm willing to bet that Loren sat for hours and clicked each one off. It was probably the highlight of his week. Even topping the Crunchies.
- Gregg H.
Don't know this dude from Adam but he seems mental
- Kevin Whalen
Kevin: you figured it out pretty fast.
- Robert Scoble
I agree with you, Kevin.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Any "Soup Nazi" is mental....
- Robert Miller
Boo Nazis. Hooray Soup!
- Aaron Hood
If those followers were wisely using auto-unfollow on SocialToo, his follow count would have just gone down, too. ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: I just might start autofollowing again. Can your system handle doing 20,000+ autofollows at once?
- Robert Scoble
Time to unfollow 1938media :)
- Angsuman Chakraborty
Robert, we're handling Guy Kawasaki, Chris Pirillo, and several other of the top Twitter users. I think we'll handle it fine - let me know when you do and I'll watch it for you. (Twitter will hate it though, because we're already sending 20 requests per second on behalf of our users) :-)
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: I decided against it. It would just be done to game more followers, not for any philosophical reason. I only want to listen to early adopters, smart people, and tech enthusiasts, and that's what I have that I'm following right now.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, no problem - if there's any methodical part of that process that we can automate for you please let me know. My goal is to make it easier for you to find smart people to follow so you can focus on the more important part of listening and maintaining the relationship.
- Jesse Stay
He is following DOGS...No joke...go look at who he's following! http://twitter.com/1938med... OMG Loren is hysterical!!! LOL
- Susan Beebe
I get enough negativity in real life.
- Phil Boiarski
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