John: I remembered the flintstones' infant daughter Pebbles Flintstone after your comment. She was using a phone like this Stone, wasn't she? : )
- Erhan Erdogan
Still: the Apple Age 1976-2008. The Stone Age 3 million BC-3000 BC. Steve Jobs ain't gonna be around *that* long (barring major innovations in life prolongation that I'm sure he'd be able to afford.)
- Victor Ganata
For most situations, I prefer the iPhone. I get really bad reception with my rock.. and it's hard to check my stocks and get directions to the pizza joint with it. But it works great as a makeshift mallet for pounding tent stakes when camping! My iPhone's a little to fragile for that. At least my iPhone can double as a flashlight in a pinch!
- Jackson D. Carson
I'm sorry for this post, I wanna delete it now. :-) I had an iPhone gift and I'm very happy with my new Apple. She is really better than stone. http://friendfeed.com/e... :-)
- Erhan Erdogan
...because it has a touchscreen, right? O:-)
- Marcos Marado
I thought FriendFeed was going to buy Google.
- Amit Patel
Google can buy what they want to get them at the top. Can they buy the whole Internet?
- Jack
It's too bad Google has basically stopped innovating and just started bying stuff. Appengine is the pits and they haven' ...via twhirl
- Soulhuntre
It's too bad Google has basically stopped innovating and just started bying stuff. Appengine is the pits and they haven't doen much else. ...via twhirl
- Soulhuntre
friendfeed is already a spinoff of google ... what would he do with Jaiku ? and you forgot bambuser qwich integrates gmaps .. ...via AlertThingy
- Frédérick 2 Baro
@Jack I am sure they will give it a good try, although they will see it more like shaping the internet! ...via AlertThingy
- Joe Dawson
Soulhuntre, in a way i do agree with you, but i don't think that Google has deserted innovation, there's so many development projects running there. I think all this acquisition issue is a matter of economic calculations, instead of holding a special team to develop something for several years they just purchase a company that has already spent the time on R&D and created the product.
- Nir Ben Yona
Maybe Google is jsut over-extended. They sat on Jot for years, then ruined it. They haven't done much with Gmail and search is stagnant for them. All they do to generate interest of late is spend money. ...via twhirl
- Soulhuntre
I agree...makes sense...one is the search of scrape and link, the other is the search of share and discover = Organise the worlds info ...via AlertThingy
- John Kotsaftis
friendfeed looks like a google service, acts like a google service, is built by xGooglers and is a perfect fit for Google. I agree and would love to see it happen. my only question, why didn't the team build this at Google?
- timepilot
@timepilot, I wondered the same thing at first. But apart from the possible entrepreneurial benefits, I'm guessing the freedom of development. They now have complete freedom around where they want to take it without the limitations of a large corporate agenda.
- Phil Ashman
What would Google do with Twitter after the damage they did to Jaiku and Dodgeball? ...via AlertThingy
- Jane Quigley
The difference between Jaiku and FriendFeed is that Jaiku wasn't funded and its founders weren't rich. They sold to Google to collect their bucks, and it was the right decision for them. FriendFeed doesn't need to sell out. So unless Google offers really a lot of money, there's no reason to sell unless Google has plans for FriendFeed. Which I doubt - if they had plans, they'd just developed it on their own. ;)
- sebmos
@jane: What damage did Google do to Jaiku? ...via AlertThingy
- Niclas Strandh
Maybe Paul can coin a new phrase, "Don't be sold."
- Vince DeGeorge
FriendFeed will be more interesting to Google if it gains mass appeal.
- Mike Reynolds
Yeah, I've been saying the same thing...Agreed ...via AlertThingy
- John Pretto
google bought jaiku, why should they buy twitter, too? ...via AlertThingy
- Timo Heuer
I can understand FriendFeed, but Twitter ... Friendfeed need to add more browsing controls, tag clouds, filters etc.... ...via AlertThingy
- Alemsah Ozturk
haha, i guess pauls interview didnt make the cut...
- bob
"Hey do you think we should this. If other people say yes, then we just do it" What a novel concept! Also releasing quickly and often tweaking & fixing for each iteration... all great processes that make smaller dotcoms awesome and easy to drink the large ones' milkshakes.
- Mark Krynsky
And why exactly did they decide to sedate her for the interview?
- Richard Hemmer
As my FriendFeed has gotten more full, I find I spend less time reading the articles people post, and more time reading the supporting comments and guessing what the article was about.
two thumbs up for media-connectedness
- greg brown
i wish that last.fm would fix the ipod scrobbler so that it could deal with things like multiple ipods syncing with one itunes. and so that a 5 star rating on your ipod translated to a 'favourite' on last.fm.
- Alex Gawley