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If it wasn't for an idiotic government I would never have met my wife, Maryam. Her family moved her out of Iran to escape the thugs. More:
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I thank the Iranian government every day for pushing her family to move her out of Iran.
- Robert Scoble
The stories she tells of dealing with government officials reminds me every day that I'm glad to be an American.
- Robert Scoble
Likewise, I would never have been born. My father moved here from Iran back in the 70s and met my mom.
- Soso Sazesh
Especially one living in Silicon Valley where more than 10,000 have decided to settle. There are SOME upsides to having crappy governments around the world. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I wanted to ask you if she still have family over there..
- glfceo
the shah was worse, which is why my grandfather left for England in 1925, unfortunately he passed on in 1978, but had returned to Iran towards the end of life.
- Prolific Programmer
from IM
makes me want to hear more of your perspective on this stuff, Robert
- Matt Searles
One of the thugs stopped her in the street when she was 13 and said "why are you smiling" and threatened her with caning if she kept it up. Her friend was caned for simply sitting in a car with a boy she wasn't married to (the boy was caned too).
- Robert Scoble
So glad I am a Briton and live in the finest country in the world :)
- David Lloyd
the shah killed my father's uncle in 1953
- Prolific Programmer
from IM
Mark: I'll be there in July. Hope to meet you.
- Robert Scoble
I had an Iranian girl friend named Layla, but she was from Paris. There's a very large Iranian community in Paris and most of them dream of returning to Iran
- paul mooney
Lots of fun things in Silicon Valley were built by Iranians, including eBay. Imagine if @pierre had stayed in Iran and had built eBay there?
- Robert Scoble
Paul: Maryam wants to visit Iran with me. I don't think that would be a good idea. I would be too tempted to tweet a photo of their nuclear plant or something like that.
- Robert Scoble
yep eBay in Iran - :)) - but I love Persian food - does your wife make kebabs and pilaves?
- glfceo
Do not go to that horrible place. You will regret it. There are reasons that everybody tries to get the hell out of there.
- Eric Sabban
Robert - where do you get your 10,000 Persians in Silicon Valley number? Just curious.
- Soso Sazesh
Every Iranian I've met who was born and raised there dreams of returning some day, but so long as the country is dominated by these horrible regimes (first the Shah, and now the "Islamic Republic") I doubt any of them will return any time soon, if ever. Which is sad, because they do miss their homeland. I'd feel the same way if I had to flee Canada.
- Chris Charabaruk
Just go, I saw a Rick Steves travel show the other night and he went to Iran and it was wonderful
- paul mooney
I had an engineering associate / friend in the late '70s whose family moved from Iran under the shah. He even changed his name to disasscoiate his past and heritage.
- Ron Hixson
Soso: every year for New Years they get together at local parks and there's thousands of them. I assume that not every one shows up at the park so I'm doing a little counting and a little inferring. I might be off a little.
- Robert Scoble
Eric: The government is horrible. The country is beautiful.
- Chris Charabaruk
paul: you'll notice how careful he was to not piss off the government types who were following him around. I'm used to that too, I have to deal with PR people at almost every company, but they don't carry guns. :-)
- Robert Scoble
@Scobleizer @pierre came to the US from Europe, IIRC.
- Prolific Programmer
@Mark agreed, Britain is the finest country on Earth! :)
- Prolific Programmer
i am following this election by reading news from Azerbaijan - Musavi is an ethnic Azeri...
- glfceo
We survived Bush and Chaney, the Iranian people will endure
- paul mooney
Robert - I was just curious. I am half Persian and know a lot of Persians here as well and have always wondered the number.
- Soso Sazesh
Same exact story for me with my Persian wife, Negar. I am a lucky man to have her.
- Dean Kakridas
while i was trying to look up the number of Persians in a valley i came across: Shirindokht Nourmanesh San Jose Persian Community Examiner - http://www.examiner.com/x-6568-...
- glfceo
And I would never have met my BFF and her family. Iranians are wonderful, generous, creative, resilient people. They'll get through this, but I hope for the young people (and for world relations) that the outcome is as they wish.
- Ayşe E.
I don't see anything wrong with Ahmedinejad... his comments re Zionism were spot on -- it does need to be wiped from this world
- Prolific Programmer
from IM
I too have made great friends that I love dearly from Iran. Iranians are the most wonderful people
- courtney benson
With all thats been going on in Iran since the election and for decades before it, I just hope that the Iranian people will one day find peace and happiness
- goutham
Goutham: you are so right - people have just one life and its sad to see them suffering instead of enjoying..
- glfceo
FYI: RT @michaelgregg, @stephenfry [Iranians] can access Twitter from 148.233.239.24 port 80 in Tehran—can avoid govt. filters. #IranElection via @jackyan (via Twitter)
- polou/indigo_bow
I like this thread Robert! You do know that you were 'supposed' to meet!
- Myrna
amazing to see all you sheeps!!!! come on guys... learn to think for yourselves... get over this superiority complex that states "we are better than them" with every word you speak and every action you make... that's exactly what makes getting along harder... try to understand their morals and their principles... they don't have to be the same as yours to be "right"!!! if iranians are evil, american's are dumb!!!!!!, and i'm not sure which is worse!
- simran
CNN: you should be ashamed. Horrid news judgment today. Absolutely horrid.
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Totally agree. If it wasn't for the internet, I would have no idea what was going on in Iran.
- Derek Coward
about what? Iran? I've been at a car wash for my daughter all day
- andywergedal
Do elaborate
- Bryce Roney
I can't believe how bad CNN is.
- Robert Scoble
Yeah, ridiculous indeed.
- Soso Sazesh
People actually watch CNN?
- Jim Hague
I read conflicting reports that Mousavi has been arrested? Is this true or not?
- Carlton Prest
From what I've heard on the news updates- he has been taken into custody. This is not good.
- Jim Hague
CNN has been terrible forever. I follow them on twitter simply to see how much less informed I feel with every post.
- zzzz
Is there a link to the article or video?
- Ron Hixson
I gave up on CNN years ago.
- Steve Lowe
Huff Post has some pretty good coverage http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009...
- Soso Sazesh
Yes, no coverage of Iran. Larry King is on with stupid motorcycle show.
- Robert Scoble
What are we talking about here. Reference plz?
- Mitchell Schneider
the most amazing thing was filtering Twitter hashtag and watching the updates come in sometimes hundreds within 10-15 minutes periods. an incredible way to immerse into the real-time interest cloud.
- Thom Kennon
Robert, I came to the same conclusion of CNN years ago.
- Taylor Marek
I love this tweet from the CNN tweetbot: Tehran on fire"... "Palin vs. Letterman Who's Right?" with panel discussion {priorities: fail;}
- BryanSchuetz
We are talking about Iran's election outrage
- Soso Sazesh
There is a letter from Mousavi in both Farsi & English circulated for hours. He is under house arrest. There are reports of Ministries on Fire. Twitter has been lit up for hours.
- Donald Wilson
One of Australia's sunday morning TV shows wasn't any better, it's lead story was that a bank was introducing muslim-friendly loans
- Bryce Roney
The real-time coverage from Tehran today was on Twitter http://twitter.com/jimsciu...
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Let's agree that most TV news networks decided long ago that they would control the news. Remember swine flu? People blame the fuss about that on Twitter, yet it died everywhere as soon as the MSM stopped making it a big deal.
- Carlton Prest
Blogs have been active, but TV networks have been dead. Including CBC in Canada. Unbelievable!
- Donald Wilson
Pavan - they did nothing and they should have
- Soso Sazesh
A brilliant guy at my gym, a BU professor, refuses to work out to CNN, insists we change the channel.
- Halley Suitt
So hard to believe we have to go to Twitter to stay on top of such important news as the protests in Iran.
- AirDye®
That gym prof has the right idea.
- zzzz
What the hell's going on with the US media. The unrest resulting from the Iranian election IS IMPORTANT!
- Don Whittaker
How great to actually see some WOMEN in the streets!
- Halley Suitt
@don they are too busy working out who would win in a fight between Sarah Palin and David letterman
- BryanSchuetz
It's the weekend. There is no one in the newsroom on the weekend. When I worked there, we had to absolutely drag someone in for the Princess Diana accident...the community was going nuts and there we were, with no broadcast news, no confirmation, no nothing.
- Karoli
Were the elections free and fair?
- David Lloyd
Front page on Foxnews.com http://www.foxnews.com/story...
- Kirk Harnack
Not according to the letter from Mousavi, and from reports coming from Iran.
- Donald Wilson
@Mark They were corrupt beyond farcical http://twitter.com/jimsciu...
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Livestation.com. You can watch France 24, Al Jazeera English, Euronews and Press TV, the Iranian propaganda channel. Coverage on all of those
- Andrew Leyden
I have to say the Nambu search ( searches twitter, friendfeed, one riot, yahoo news) has been great for keeping on top of this, and it's essentially real-time: http://img.skitch.com/2009061...
- BryanSchuetz
So....are you all (we) making MSM obsolete?
- Cynthia Chrysler
RT @mistabaka Follow this blog http://is.gd/113ss for amazing pics/vid of #IranElection Pls RT. 5 hours ago
- Donald Wilson
so far I think the best coverage is here: http://shooresh1917.blogspot.com/ - and he has more on his facebook page
- glfceo
wut's going on folks?
- Eric Nakagawa
CNN is a mock news feed. It's a misinformation provider.
- troglodyte
It isn't just CNN. If you look at online newspapers and other outlets before going to bed tonight you'd walk away with a different story and all sorts of analysis about how we will continue to deal with the old regime. That still may be the case, but you can tell this was a
- Warner Crocker
Go to Monitter.com (a great site, btw) and type the Twitter search terms in. You can watch them come in real time, no refreshing.
- Obayoo
con't... we're out of here for the weekend story.
- Warner Crocker
CNN does have this on their site: http://www.cnn.com/2009...
- invariant
We don't bother with broadcast TV, so I can't watch any of the stations, but http://www.bbc.co.uk/ currently has it listed as the top news story, as does http://www.cbc.ca/news/ both with firey photos.
- David Sky
CNN has access to Twitter and more. So why can't they give the proper attention to this story?
- Donald Wilson
It's actually all so called TV news outlets. Internet is a better source of news. To be fair though, sometimes, on duty journalists/editors do not have the last say in what's covered as 'news'. Simple politics and ratings. I usually tune in to UK TV channels than I do US for news, that too very rarely. Sad but true.
- Moushumi Kabir
photos from the Tehran http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Johni Fisher
I see more news from my Iranian friends than news TV news outlets.
- Moushumi Kabir
Cnn lost.
- Stalyn☂
My last thought on this, no matter what happens, US definitely needs to stay out. It's Iran's internal matter just as 2004 re-election of Bush was our internal matter. As shocking as it was to the rest of the world (I still struggle with the fact ppl I know actually voted for him - twice!!), US did vote for Bush the second time.
- Moushumi Kabir
For people interested in tracking what is happening regarding the irannian election on Twitter, here is a dashboard: http://www.twazzup.com/search... An amazing showcase of how new forms of communication make it much harder for dictatorships to control people!
- Edwin Khodabakchian
It's difficult to get a right news even for me who know Persian, Iranian Tv doesn't support anything about street riots at all, Face book and You tube are filtered over there! No SMS! No mobile, even FF is filtered for them ! :|
- Shandiz
sucks to live in a country without freedom :(
- David Lloyd
Agree w/ Moushumi Kabir!US MUST stay out of this.
- Shandiz
"Horrid coverage" -- otherwise known as typical. Shame shame!
- Andy Sternberg
from fftogo
Good "on the ground" coverage over at allvoices http://www.allvoices.com/Iran
- Joel Richman
What did CNN do-so horridly...is that a word. That's twice in 2 weeks.
- politics news
Download Livestation to see more coverage
- Eric Haber
from Nambu
re: Teriss - comparing cnn.com to twazzup.com at 10:08 PM Central, CNN has NO MENTION of Iran and twazzup has 3 of 10 Hot Topics about Iran ... looks like CNN is NOT the place to find 'Breaking News'.
- Don Strickland
Really strange.
- Jim Hague
I really like Don Lemon but he seems to think CNN isn't doing anything wrong, which bugs me. http://twitter.com/donlemoncnn
- Shawn Farner
CNN finally pipes up and mentions Facebook pictures inciting violence in Iran - but no update. Oh, yeah, and the fact that access to internet has been cut off. Is that the only news?Now on to the Letterman/Palin fight! I am heading back to online updates.
- Liza + = ?
I often find US cable TV insular when it comes to foreign affairs - coverage of Barack Obama's recent speech in Egypt was a case in point. But CNN ignoring the Iranian protests is shameful.
- Peter Dowley
Track now in real-time http://iran.twazzup.com/
- Edwin Khodabakchian
I was always kinda of excited about the prospect of a 24 hour news network. Imagine how many more stories or how much more in-depth you could got on a single item. That really didn't happen. Covering stories, particularly any story happening outside NY or LA, is expensive. So we saw CNN put on a bunch of shows with pundits. They leaned to the left, so FOX could come along and lean to...
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- Matthew McCowan
Twitter is susceptible to manipulation by propagandists--for example the protests in Moldavia. In that case it was a legit election that the protesters just didn't like the result of. A flash mob does not a majority make.
- Joe Knapp
Joe: good point, but many of us didn't fall for that crap and even then it cleaned itself out pretty quickly.
- Robert Scoble
CNN died in 2001, when Tom Johnson retired. Quite a few of the top talent left around the same time, not wanting to be part of Jamie Kellner's efforts to be more like FOX. Cable "news" is a ghetto, and I never, ever, ever turn it on. Robert, you'll enjoy this: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_dai...
- John Craft
Photos from Iran http://twitpic.com/photos...
- Johni Fisher
Looks like CNN is finally picking up the coverage today. Christiane Amanpour is live in Teheran.
- Nils Sandin
Just starring to catch up to last nights events. Amazing the lack of big media coverage on Iran.
- Robert Wilkins
Been watching CNN International in China for two days and I can't agree with you. The reporting seems to be matching what I'm seeing on BBC and reading in NYTimes and Twitter. Saying they should be "ashamed" is a bit invective.
- David Geller
"CNN International . . . seems to be matching what I'm seeing on BBC and reading in NYTimes and Twitter." - CNN-I is a totally separate production team, and has a totally different business model from CNN-"Domestic."
- John Craft
Crowds gather for Ahmadinejad victory rally http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
- David Lloyd
http://www.thenation.com/blogs... - "Iran's Ex-Foreign Minister Yazdi: It's A Coup"
- John Craft
Robert Scoble: three bloggers have been on top of Iran developments: Andrew Sullivan, Juan Cole and Robert Dreyfuss. It seems safe to say now that we have just witnessed a coup in Iran.
- Sean McBride
Other interesting reports http://sambrook.typepad.com/sacredf...
- Johni Fisher
Amazing video from the BBC of the demonstrations. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
- Joe Wood
What's new?
- Kreg Steppe
Yep, "CNN- The Lamest International News Team on Television"
- Dean Kakridas
CNN: Cable No News network.
- Robert Scoble
interwebz wins again!
- stefan
who makes the decisions over there at Cnn?
- Denise
All these comments are so stupid and ill-informed. Not a single one of you has ever tried to take a camera crew into a totalitarian country. I have. You don't just walk around. Easy to twitter for one person. Very hard to get pictures! Go and try it, and until then. Shut up!
- Prokofy Neva
@Sean, i agree we have witnessed a coup--the sustained fight lasting a week with people in the street every day, making police run away, NYT editorial by Reuel Marc Gerecth has a good analysis of what it means, and AlJazeera http://www.youtube.com/watch... has a good analysis. the action on the streets is having a huge effect, not just on Iran but on the Middle East.
- Eleanor Wynn
Prokofy Neva, agreed that no new organizations can get in there, but any of the news channels could rebroadcast key videos, photographs and analysis of this very major geopolitical event--it is really disgusting to go through the TV channels and see the dreck that is on when something major is happening--our local news channels will cover a weather event non-stop, why doesn't a major channel cover this/
- Eleanor Wynn
the citizen journalism tells the story in a way noone else could. you are right there in the middle of the crowd with all the changes of pace and direction, the shaky camera itself tells a story and the sounds. it is like actually being there--that is why the twitter and youtube coverage is the real coverage--they don't have to process, package and add a local angle to it that waters down the effect
- Eleanor Wynn
Building43 Launch Party http://m.kyte.tv/ch...
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Congratulations Robert and team...
- Amit Nangare
Congrats!!!!!!
- glfceo
Congrats!
- Soso Sazesh
Congratulations Rocky & Robert, have a great party!
- travispuk
Congrats to everyone involved! Can't wait to see how this turns out.
- Chris Pugh
Congrats !!! Can't believe I'm still awake. LOL. It's 2:30 am, and now I hear the site will go live in about half an hour.
- Nir Ben Yona
Congrats Robert!
- Michael Fidler
wow, tuning in on the party. Congratulations & Cheers!
- Jacob
No audio?
- Byron McCollum
They are on a break now.
- Nir Ben Yona
back
- Byron McCollum
I'm excited to see how this goes. Congrats Robert and the Building43 crew!
- Obayoo
Hmm -- I assumed the launch party would indicate a launch = website unveiling? It seems not.
- Brian Sullivan
Greetings from preschool graduation, wish I could join you! Have fun :).
- Denise Howell
I guess I just went there too early -- I see the website is now live.
- Brian Sullivan
We are official! T-shirts and stickers and Techcrunch party tomorrow! Picture and more: - http://ourdoings.com/roberts...
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That is Rob LaGesse showing off our new shirts -- in Silicon Valley you don't actually need to ship anything as long as you have a cool T- shirt. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
Nice! Want!
- Jesse Stay
Great shirt!
- Gregg Morris
I'd really love to be there with you!
- Gabriele Cazzulini
Jesse: the stickers are even cooler. Metallic.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, awesome, I'll take one of each please. ;-)
- Jesse Stay
definitely want one of them shirts! nice!
- erik yuzwa
I want, I want
- andy brudtkuhl
can't attend, would love to get some stickers though. Is there going to be a place to order some?
- Chris Pugh
Rutger: we launch tomorrow. Building43 is a community for people fanatical about the Internet.
- Robert Scoble
Chris: we still have to figure that out. Stay tuned.
- Robert Scoble
Looking forward to the launch. Any word on whether or not the shirts will be available to order?
- Matt Wolpin
Matt: we are working on that. Stay tuned.
- Robert Scoble
way 2 cool! want autographed t-shirt, please!
- glfceo
Good luck with the launch!
- Kawika Holbrook
Can't wait to see what you guys have built. Been looking forward to this since the announcement.
- Chris Pugh
Want some schwag! I hope you guys can figure out a way to get them out to people across the country (and world)!
- Brandon Titus
Tomorrow is the big day, can't wait...
- Eran Even-Kesef
so how much cooler does one get for putting a building 43 sticker on their laptop
- Eran Even-Kesef
I would <3 some stickers and a t-shirt!
- Ric Johnson
Quick Question for FriendFeeders! When I signed up FriendFeed allowed me to auto subscribe to all the Twitter Accounts I was following. Is there a way for me to run that function again?
- Jason Pollock
Jason: sure thing. Click "Browse/edit friends" in the "Friends" sidebar. Then click "Find/Invite Friends" on the next screen, and you should see the Twitter option. ** Edit ** Or, just go here: http://friendfeed.com/friends...
- Nick Wade
nick: thanks dude
- Jason Pollock
Getting excited! Good luck with the launch!
- Account Name
Rackspace had a great presence at SXSW 2009. A few pics on Flickr at http://bit.ly/18TCB7 They gave out nice Tee's and even socks too.
- JimmyJet
Where is the TechCrunch Party?
- Cheri
Listen up Enterprise 2.0 pontificators. AllTop wants Enterprise 2.0 feed recommendations. Lets start adding it here on FriendFeed.
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I'll start. Pretzel Logic - Enterprise 2.0. RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/pretzel...
- Sameer
I'll add mine: http://bhc3.wordpress.com/feed...
- Hutch Carpenter
V Mary Abraham: http://feeds.feedburner.com/AboveAn...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Dion Hinchcliffe: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcl...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Jennifer Leggio: http://blogs.zdnet.com/feeds/
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Andrew McAfee: http://andrewmcafee.org/blog...
- Hutch Carpenter
Mike Gotta: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Collabo...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Stewart Mader: http://www.ikiw.org/subscribe/
- Hutch Carpenter
Jeremiah Owyang: http://feeds.feedburner.com/WebStra...
- Hutch Carpenter
Doug Cornelius: http://www.compliancebuilding.com/subscri...
- Hutch Carpenter
Thomas Vander Wal: http://www.personalinfocloud.com/
- Hutch Carpenter
Stowe Boyd: http://www.stoweboyd.com/message...
- Hutch Carpenter
Gary Hamel: http://blogs.wsj.com/managem...
- Meryn Stol
Claude Malaison (French, no translation found other than Google Reader): http://feeds.feedburner.com/emergen...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Daniel Pritchett: http://feeds.feedburner.com/sharing...
- Hutch Carpenter
Susan Scrupski: http://itsinsider.com/feed/
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Larry Hawes: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Togethe...
- Larry Hawes
laura fitton aka pistachio - http://feeds.feedburner.com/Touchba...
- mike "glemak" dunn
Gil Yehuda: http://www.gilyehuda.com/
- Meryn Stol
We're missing company blogs thus far - do we add in the official feeds from everyone's favorite E2.0 vendors?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Rachel Happe: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheSoci...
- Hutch Carpenter
I have a feeling Guy would bump the company blogs to the top because that seems to fit his concept of authority.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Oliver Young: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Strateg...
- Hutch Carpenter
Socialcast: http://socialcast.com/blog/
- Meryn Stol
FriendFeed's E2.0 stream (loosely curated by Hutch Carpenter): http://friendfeed.com/enterpr...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Sam Lawrence: http://gobigalways.com/
- Meryn Stol
This game gets harder with each comment. :D Interesting who can keep up the longest. :)
- Meryn Stol
Luis Suarez: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Elsua
- Hutch Carpenter
most everyone on my blogroll posted at http://www.gilyehuda.com/
- Gil Yehuda
This was tweeted to me: @bhc3 No petition needed, just send a list of suggested sites to neenz@alltop.com :) #e20 {tweet from Alltop's chief evangelist: http://twitter.com/NEENZ}
- Hutch Carpenter
Nice Gil. Sameer - you can send this link to that email address.
- Hutch Carpenter
Is there such a thing as a too-full Alltop list? I have several more possibles in my feed reader but I was trying to drop my favorites first.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Luis Benitez: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Sociali...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Headshift: http://www.headshift.com/blog...
- Hutch Carpenter
Cloud Ave: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/cloudAv...
- Hutch Carpenter
Enterprise Web 2.0-Dion Hinchcliffe http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcl...
- daniela barbosa
Knowledge Jolt with Jack Vinson http://blog.jackvinson.com/atom...
- daniela barbosa
Communities and Collaboration by Steve Dale http://steve-dale.net/feed/
- daniela barbosa
Daniela Barbosa: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Unstruc
- Hutch Carpenter
Mark Gould (KM/Law): http://blog.tarn.org/feed/
- Daniel J. Pritchett
This thread: http://friendfeed.com/sameerp...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I love FriendFeed :). Awesome stuff. Just remember, it needs to be a blog about E2.0, as opposed to a E2.0 practitioners personal blog. Also, I believe they require the RSS feed and not the blog URL so please add the feed. Ill send this over at the end of the day. Once the page is up, you can still submit your feed via a form.
- Sameer
Crikey, does this mean I have to rebrand my blog to fit in with my target audience? I'm about E2.0 this year but I wasn't planning on marrying it.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Daniel, I'm not sure how they curate this. Looking at other categories, everything seems quite topical. We'll find out....
- Sameer
I imagine it's as simple as "do your last ten headlines fit this niche or not". Hmm, time to scan my feed.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
thanks everyone. I've emailed this link + a link to the blogroll that Gil has on his site.
- Sameer
these events: http://www.cioitexec.com
- glfceo
uh, and any podcast? http://bit.ly/DITWx
- Daniele Beta
OnDemand Beat: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Ondeman...
- blomarx
This is an unbelievably rich list! And, it's symbolic of the incredible generosity of the FF community. (If only every office and industry operated this way.) Thanks for sharing these resources.
- V Mary Abraham
:)
- Daniel J. Pritchett
A friend has a glass company and is struggling. Their Web site sucks. What advice do you give? Any Web designers in Silicon Valley?
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Link?
- Evan
there should be the odd web designer in the valley somewhere.
- Zee.
I would recommend that they first think what kind of content they want to have online. Product information is good bet, but what other things they should share to people? What about history of company? Telling stories make people feel more sympathy to company. (And yes, I could have some recommendation for those designers but I have to look from my bookmarks first...)
- Daniel Schildt
Given the economy they need to consider only 2 things right now: 1) how do I acquire customers; 2) how do I keep the customers I get (return business/upsell) - That should be the only purpose of the site. HOW they get there is what a good creative can help them with.
- Brian Roy
SWOT analysis, strategies evaluation, objectives setting, execution planning. In that same order
- delbo
engagement, loyalty, turn customers into sales-people. 'social-ize' your products
- MikeAmundsen
Make sure your website is tested on all platforms, loads quickly, gets to the point and is attractive without being gaudy. Showcase your work in the most attractive manner possible, but keep in mind who your key customers are; What kind of glass they make (art?, Practical?, sheets for artists?) will determine how they market. One thing they teach you in an MBA is that you can't just sell a product, you have to market to a customer- the first q they should ask themselves is who do they want as their customer
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
Evan: It is: http://www.southbayglassco.com/
- Robert Scoble
My tips? First, think about how people are using Google to find you. Put those search terms in your title tag. Second, put a simple sentence about what you do for customers and how you are different from your competitors. Include those same search terms. Put that at the top of your page. After that, start a blog, make it personal. Add some stories of what you do. Tips for customers who are looking to hire you. That, too, will help you with Google.
- Robert Scoble
It doesn't tell me their story. Doesn't give me any reason why I should pick them over any other glass company.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
outsource it to asia for low cost upgrade, get a top notch result, can hook u up
- imran
Agree with Alex. I want to know what makes them great, even without saying "we are better than everyone else." Maybe teach us something about glass. People may think a certain way about glass, but if we have a better understanding of what goes into giving us the product, we may gravitate towards them.
- Evan
forget the Web site... how's the glass? perhaps that is the problem...
- Jon Price
Make sure the fundamentals are covered. Easy to find address, phone number, other corporate info (you'd be amazed how many sites blow this). Make it easy for a customer to get in touch from every page--the moment they find what they want they can get in touch with the company and order it or get more answers. Another bit of advice is one page = one product. Get them into google on each individual item. Sitemaps are also important and good header tags.
- Andrew Leyden
Marketing is more imp than product, right hand rule, unless u sell oil/gas
- imran
I didn't find them on yelp. Might want to encourage customers to start some entries. I didn't see any customer reviews. There's no tag line. I like to see something about good prices, good work, leave the place clean, on time, that sort of thing. The examples of their work are too big and there are no descriptions of what makes their work good.
- Todd Hoff
Better yet, move to Dubai, your friend will be sold out in a month or so
- imran
Start a blog and a short video show on YouTube. Write the most basic posts about glass company themes. go to Yahoo Answers and answer every questions related to glass/windows.
- Jason Calacanis
Selling your friends isn't very friendly.
- Todd Hoff
Follow/learn from Jcal, Arrington, Scoble's marketing lifestyle
- imran
I'd volunteer to help your friend - most businesses have fundamental biz development issues - they need to develop referral systems, focus on client education, reactivate dead leads, develop backend email system w/frontend free ebook optin above the fold answering most common client questions, and personalize the website with owner profile. It's cold and not that informative. Position...
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- Vicki Flaugher
Robert- I would be happy to send an complete analysis / recommendation. It sucks watching a good business fail with a bad site. I have some business basics articles I can narrow them in with, I know translating all this "net jargon" is hard for most brick and mortar businesses.
- 123socialmedia
Thanks for all the tips, I just forwarded this.
- Robert Scoble
they are struggling not because of their web site - this is for sure. They need to focus on their overall integrated sales/marketing strategies: like partnerships with contractors, etc; cross-marketing, referral-based incentives. People in general do not purchase these types of services because of the nice looking web site - period. There are few simple things that could be done to beautify their web site, even they will somehow drive folks to this web site-will not lead to more closed business- more needed
- glfceo
more content, should have a unique page for every major glass company out there. a page for every major style of glass/glass doors.Should have a nice section that can be used as a resource by potential customers to draw them in and generate a lead. Also all the META info for the homepage(and i imagine every other page) needs a revamp.
- sean percival
Answer three questions before you start: 1. Who am I talking to? 2. What do I want from them? 3. What do they want from me?
- Michael Markman
also the mom and pop stuff is always very hard, ive done about 200 ecommerce sites, mostly for small companies like this. their focus is always on the biz first and website last, today it and in some cases it should be the other way around.
- sean percival
Scobleizer, I guess it depends on their budget. If they have some budget allocated to improving their website, they should hire a consulting firm specializing in web and graphics design, like Emily Chang. However, if their budget is limited, they can search for students at nearby universities and see if any student designers will take it as a student project, or even have it as a class project competition.
- imabonehead
Nothing says personal like some raw videos going up now and then showing some aspect of the business. Be it some cutting taking place and the owner talking about the business somewhat. Once it's genuine and not a "well I saw someone say to do this so let me do this" kind of thing. You would know what I mean, Robert. I think.
- Evan
I'd like to see an http://www.englishcut.com style site go up for them and think that could work well. Of course using the web effectively might not translate well into business for a glass company...The other question is how effectively are they exploiting other avenues of advertising. Are they going the extra mile to get and maintain good word of mouth solicitations from current/past customers? Etc.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
selling glass during real estate troubles is interesting way to to target potential customers with sense of humor
- A. T.
also, making search on google maps with string "glass near 63 Washington Street Santa Clara, CA 95050" (remove parethesis before search) and zooming out shows how many glass ships around -- I don't know what they are counting for...
- A. T.
they don't appear on page 1 of google results for "santa clara glass." lot of drilling down to find them using maps, and they have NO reviews. on web site, gotta scroll down to find out "What we do." also, glass product named "Windows 95" does not inspire confidence
- Karim
I would say that the bottom line comes down to storytelling. If I can go to their site and learn about them - what is their story? how did they get into the glass business? what makes them great? - I will gain an emotional connection and they've got my (and many others') business. Tell me the story of the process, let me gain the knowledge and make me feel like an insider because I know the terms and processes and don't feel like a fool when I call. That will make me a customer too.
- Shawn Kelley
I sent a lengthy e-mail to your fastcompany addy. Please forward to your friend. :)
- 123socialmedia
Before the glass company invests a lot of time, effort, and money into upgrading their Web site, they should run a small PPC (Google Adwords is your best bet) campaign to test the waters locally (under product/service related keywords like auto glass, glass windows, etc.). They can direct the Google ads to specialized landing pages that provide a call-to-action for the visitor - a small...
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- Drive Thru
Let's put internet aside for a sec (did I say that?). Seems to me they're lacking focus. Wikipedia tells me that Santa Clara has 100k pop. with median household income 76k$; yet, the showers seem quite expensive. Are they targeting the local market or also neighboring counties? Who are their customers cies or households? Before revamping their website, I think they should review their positioning. The most surprising is that they present themselves as subcontractors, maybe that's where they should start?
- Zack Brandit
my company 9 consults projects like this. have him email me and we'll do it pro bono. patricia@whatis9.com.
- Patricia
Wow, way to bump up an old FF post!
- Tamar Weinberg
Great thread. Good advice here for any company.
- Roberto Bonini
Four months ago Alex Scoble and Shawn Kelley talked about this business needing to do more storytelling. That was before FriendFeed added geoRSS support and added some real-time enhancements. Today they could add a FriendFeed widget to their site and send photos of the jobs they do with locations, live reporting like at http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Matthew, I thought the same thing. I'm not sure I like that given my discussion that current FF content is being ignored.
- Tamar Weinberg
Not sure a web site can fix a struggling business otherwise we could do a killer design for the auto makers :-) It would be a lot cheaper...
- Tom Foremski
Gillmor Gang 01.17.09 - http://gillmorgang.techcrunch.com/2009...
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The Gillmor Gang - Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Marc Canter, and Andrew Keen. Recorded Saturday, January 17, 2009.
- Steve Gillmor
enjoyed it! thanks! will be great to have a "share" button over there..
- glfceo
Journalists @ CNBC etc. should have been "delving" into what the hell Fanny, Freddy,AIG and THE BANKS were doing. I am over it with the whole Apple drama. The CEO's at the financial institutions have cost investors and this country far more that Job's has/will.
- frankiecarl
Rats. Just getting on a plane for Pheonix. Will I be able to hear this? Can't get it on ITunes.
- Francine Hardaway
perfect way to wrap up a sunday night... Francine - say... do you listen to Ian Masters - Background Briefing (kpfk.org)? - listening to it now - excellent show today.
- andrew
Francine - looks like the new on is up on itunes now - good stuff.
- andrew
Robert is having a fun weekend with family celebrating my 44th birthday on Sunday. Thanks to everyone for the kind wishes!
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Happy Birthday Robert!
- Dave Gambrill
Hey, we continue to celebrate a week apart. My son Doug beat you to 44 in December. I achieve 70 week from Sunday. Enjoying myself over that.
- Dennis E. Hamilton
from twhirl
Tomorrow's your b-day? Happy birthday, Robert!
- Chris Charabaruk
Happy Birthday Robert! Maybe I should create a FriendFeed room for this? ;)
- Michael Broukhim
Happy Birthday!! Does this mean you're taking the day off?
- Devlin Dunsmore
from twhirl
Have a great birthday weekend! Hope it's geeky and fun! :)
- Daynah
have a good one!!!
- Richard Binhammer
no s#*t ... not only is my birthday the day after yours, I'll also be 44. Happy Birthday!
- Jim #TeamMonique
Happy birthday, Robert! Have a great one! :)
- Dee @ Holycool.net
Good times! Enjoy!
- Josh Haley
Happy Birthday and here's to many more (lifts martini)!
- Susan Dennis
Just turned 44 myself! Happy Bday.
- BEX
Happy Birthday !!!
- Nir Ben Yona
~~~ HAPPY 44TH BIRTHDAY ROBERT !!! I hope you have a really fun birthday and get lots of cool new toys!! :D
- Susan Beebe
Best wishes on the day! Looks like its gonna be a very decent day in HMB tomorrow! :-)
- Bo Stern
Happy Birthday, Robert!!
- David Cook
Ahh...what to do? Robert said there was no need to wish him a happy b'day, but I do this for others; why should I exclude him? and everyone else is doing it...I know; happy Scoble's birthday, fellow FriendFeeders!
- MiniMage
Happy Birthday, Robert!! Hope you enjoy your day and weekend. :)
- Lindsay
Happy birthday.
- Eric - Too Hot
Happy 44th ... hey we almost have the same birthday :)
- Robert Couture
Happy Birthday! have fun with the family...that's what it's all about.
- Troy Malone
Wow you're 44?! Time is damn good to you!! Happy Birthday and stay unplugged before Maryam drags you to a place with no cell service! ;)
- Mona Nomura
Happy Impending Birthday!
- deusdiabolus
Already 44? Happy Birthday and wish you a webfull of 44th year ;)
- Özkan Altuner
Happy 44!
- webosapien (Burcu Tüzün)
Happy pre-Birthday, Robert. I wish you many, many more. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Happy Birthday, Robert! So glad you're having fun with your family. Cheers!
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Excellent! Happy Birthday Robert. It's already Sunday here :)
- Ange Recchia/angesbiz
Happy Birthday Robert!
- Holger Eilhard
Happy birthday
- Duncan Riley
Happy Birthday ^__^
- Neya
Happy Birthday
- Charlie Anzman
Scobleizer, Happy Birthday!
- Mike Fruchter
Many Happy Returns and blessings to you Robert!
- Melanie Reed
Happy Birthday Robert. Hope the coming year is a great one.
- jjprojects
Happy Birthday
- Sharron Field
from twhirl
Happy Birthday
- Kyle
I thought you were 34, have a great day!
- paul mooney
Happy Bornday
- rokhayakebe
Happy Birthday! If you were in Atlanta it would have been a snowy (predicted) birthday, not to mention a kewl place to celebrate in, home to Coca-Cola, CDC, Lockheed Martin and our very own Ted Turner's creation CNN. :-) [edited]
- Moushumi Kabir
Happy 44 !!!
- Rocky
Happy birthday!
- Morton Fox
May I say Best Wishes on your Day...
- Racism Occupied
Happy Birthday, Robert!
- Heidi Jeffers Thibodeau
Happy birthday!
- Naser Farzinfar
Happy Birthday!
- mandyvan
Happy Birthday
- Leslie Poston
Happy Bday Robert!
- Kelly Johns
Happy B-Day!!
- Jeff P. Henderson
happy birthday I am offering you a like as present :)
- Loic Le Meur
from twhirl
happy bday!!
- ::Kristen::
Have a Happy!!!
- Seth Greenblatt
happy bday
- Zafarali
Happy Birthday Robert, Have a Great Weekend!
- Michael Fidler
Happy birthday old man!™
- Larry Kless
Happy Birthday, Robert! Have a great day.
- Andrew Terry
happy bday!
- Zafarali
S dnem Rozhdeniya! (happy b-day!)
- Olga Rasulova
You're 44? Herzlichen Glückwunsch Robert!
- Gaby K. Slezák
A happy Birthday to you from old Europe
- Donald Townsend
Congrats to your 44th! You look much younger though! :-)
- Alex
Happy birthday :)
- Carolyn Chan
happy bday!
- Zafarali
Happy Birthday!
- Ordinarybug Heather
Happy Birthday. Great seeing you in Las Vegas.
- Steve Garfield
from twhirl
Happy Birthday!
- Didi Chanoch
Cumpleaños Feliz!
- Steven Livingstone-Pérez
Happy Birthday! (isn't it Prager's as well)
- Marcus Beagley
Happy birthday, Robert!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Happy birthday! Thanks for being the real first adopter and showing the rest of us new ways and places to explore.
- Heather
Happy birthday Robert! Keep up the good work your'e doing!
- Marc van Waardenburg
Happy birthday!
- Robert Banghart
Happy Birthday Robert!!! The Queen sends her birthday wishes too :) London, United Kingdom
- Justin Stevens
Happy Birthday Robert (Man, you're just a kid ! :)
- Charlie Anzman
happy birthday
- Travis Parsons
Happy birthday! • From Moscow, Russia
- Лёша
Happy birthday Pal!!!!
- Thomas Hawk
Happy birthday.
- Svartling
Happy birthday Robert!
- Martin Bryant
Happy birthday, dude!
- Michael VanDervort
Happy birthday, dear Robert! Happy birthday to you! :)
- Lora Lufark
Many happy returns.
- Mike Lewis
Happy B-Day, Robert.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Happy Birthday, Robert!
- ravi karandeekar
Happy Birthday from the island of Montreal!
- Michael Forian
Happy Birthday Robert! Enjoy your day!
- Laura Zickus
Wait. I thought you were 10 years older than me. Then I realized you were 10 years younger!! Now I find out you're my age? I am suddenly hopeful! Yes we 44yr- olds can! .......Hey Robert, seriously, I wish you another 56 healthy years. Happy Birthday! ♫
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Happy Birthday, Robert!!!! :)
- Molly Song ;)
Happy Birthday! http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3493...
- glfceo
Happy Birthday Robert.
- Daniel Rowley
Happy Birthday!
- clp
Wishing you a great one Robert. Thanks for all you do for the Internet. I loved your interview with Seth Godin, you 2 were great together.
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
Happy Birthday! Hooray for 1965! (My birthday is still a few weeks away, in March.)
- Russian Space Lizard
Scobleizer, time to CELEBRATE-You have so much ahead of you, b/c what's behind you was great!! Thanks for all the great insight!!
- Harold Cabezas
Happy birthday Robert!
- Andrew
Happy Birthday Robert!
- Parth Awasthi
Happy B1rthday Rob3rt
- iSteeve
Happy Christmas Robert! (Didnt wanna say the same thing as everyone else) :)
- Simon Wicks
happy bday robert
- MG Siegler
Happy Bday!!
- Sarah Perez
Happy Birthday! Have a wonderful year until the next :)
- Pilgrim Five
For my birthday tomorrow I'm buying a webcam for my Windows 7 PC. Which one is best? Answer here:
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Um... an iSight on a Mac?
- Alexander von Halem
The Quickcam pro 9000 is definitely the one to get. It has become the industry standard for webcams.
- Steven (optionshiftk)
Many will suggest the higher-end Logitechs with Zeiss lenses but I find they produce images that are too soft. A $30 MSFT Lifecam 1000 is a great little camera and should work well. Lots of Eyejot users have them.
- David Geller
For versatility the "Logitech QuickCam Orbit AF” http://bit.ly/GdNZ
- Ken Gillam
I have a Logitech QuickCam, which is pretty nice. I think the Pro is even better, but was more than I wanted to spend at the time.
- Jaemi Kehoe
If you're using it on a laptop I'd go with any of the new ones by MS with the magnetic clip. The NX6k looks spectacular. It really works well and you get to foget it's there.Otherwise for a desktop I'd go with a Quickcam orbit. It's really amusing and has more resolution.
- Georgios Kasselakis
why dont you use this affiliate link to buy one -
- Allen Stern
For you I thin this is the perfect webcam . http://cli.gs/QRVYy3
- Ted Wahler
Allen: you are funny! I actually would have bought it off of your affiliate link if you did put one to the Microsoft cam that Georgios recommended.
- Robert Scoble
FWIW, my QuickCam Orbit works fine with Windows 7
- Phil Glockner
We really like the Logitech QuickCam Pro. http://www.kallow.com/computi...
- Caleb Elston
http://www.amazon.com/gp... - list of best sellers from Amazon
- glfceo
My birthday is Monday. What are you getting me?
- Jim #TeamMonique
Absolutely. We stream live from our offices during business hours with the Logitech QuickCam Pro. Clear as a bell and worth every penny.
- Troy Malone
the really expensive ones that follow you!
- sofarsoShawn
Robert, the QuickCam Pro 9000 by Logitech is amazing. The Orbit AF is overpriced and does basically the same features.
- Michael Forian
Another Quickcam pro 9000 fan here. Clearest picture, best usability for a reasonable price.
- Lucretia Pruitt
yes, I believe that's the one I have
- sofarsoShawn
I bought the QuickCam Pro 9000 when the GMail promotion was on, and haven't regretted it at all.
- Martin Heller
If you get a lifecam make sure you get the new sw for win7. The vista sw doesn't work well on 7.
- Alan Cheslow
Robert - I'm a huge fan of the Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000. It's the one I used for almost all of the later episodes of Mashable Conversations. Works perfectly on PC or Mac.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
The higher-end Logitec Quickcams are excellent. Zeiss lens. 9000 pro is great,
- Eric - Too Hot
Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 is the best and smallest for laptops <- go for it Robert
- @LarsenTweet
I have this one and I love how portable it is and how good the quality is. It comes with a portable stand and a carry bag. http://www.logitech.com/index...
- David Cook
I've ordered the Quickcam Orbit AF for numerous people and they really liked it. The price difference between it ($100.99) and the Quickcam Pro 900 ($89.99) is $11 on Newegg right now when you use promo code EMCABBGCD. Here's the camera link http://www.newegg.com/Product... . There...
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- Dr. Apps
from twhirl
Go all out with multiple video cameras and a NewTek TriCaster.
- Rodfather
Wow, I'm suprised to see that Microsoft has 22 webcams for sale on Newegg while Logitech only has 14... I think the other reason I'd pick Logitech over Microsoft is software. Microsoft has a terrible habit of abandoning hardware products with regards to software/drivers. MS Fingerprint reader or MS Broadband Networking products are a perfect example of that...
- Dr. Apps
from twhirl
Definitely a Mac with the built in iSight.
- Shayne Packer
Microsoft LifeCam VX-5000 for the price is very nice. Store on Amazon has them four 25 bucks. Excellent picture and sound.
- John Carter
you mean you aren't going to film off your i-phone anymore?
- Prokofy Neva
Projofy: I am doing less and less of that because of the quality, yes.
- Robert Scoble
Happy Birthday!
- Tyson Key
I wonder if the new Eyeball mic and HD camera is any good? http://bluemic.com/product...
- Jim Williams
Robert - Microsoft released a special version of their Lifecam software for Windows 7 which works really nicely with mine (NX notebook series). You can find it here : http://www.microsoft.com/hardwar...
- Charlie Anzman
Quickcam Pro 9000 has nice filters to add a beard, crown, Robot head to your face. Really impresses the 7-year-olds in your life, and chicks too.
- Chris Pounds
You should get a blue microphone "eyeball", it's a good quality microphone with an HD webcam attached, would be cool for interviews.
- Daniel Matthews
I was going to get a flip soon, but now I'm fully going this route - Blue have a great brand as high end microphones (but most don't know that they are now no longer hand made as in times past - and are now made in China... So I'd have to check this out in the flesh before I bought it).
- Brad Parler
Also, Happy Birthday! Keep bringing the Noise and the Funk!!!
- Brad Parler
honestly i'd go with the Microsoft NX-6000 http://tr.im/9e19 don't worry about the affiliate code. I hear that i'm in good company!
- Rob Thomas
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