didn't seem like there wasn't anything epic with RIM remote wipes, was there?
- Da
Francine, the problem is that you're still exposed on a service by service basis without a secondary auth method even if you do it on LastPass only. That at least does protect your password library.
- Jerry Schuman
Good lesson to use a good/unique password for your online backup/last line of defense...
- Denise Howell
Thought: if there was a "Push Gateway" in the cloud for all to consume, it could save battery life and can be transported to all your devices.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
conversations are always fragmented; we only ever see a subset of the web.
- Kevin Marks
widgets are also pretty awesome for notification
- Da
Mark, you mean like urbanairship.com ?
- Kevin Marks
I KNEW the Glasses would come in here at some point - CHYAAAAA
- Rocky Barbanica
Charlie, where do you get this "customer first" nonsense? ;-)
- Tina Chase Gillmor
one good filter: if enough people are talking about it in my Google Reader, then something's up
- Da
LOL - always had a prollem with that too, Tina - until it was a mandate whence I work
- Rocky Barbanica
I feel obligated to post to both Twitter and Facebook if I find an awesome resource. A lot of the *same* people are following me in both places. They have to decide which place to comment on it. One convo goes in one direction, the other goes in another. It's OK, but it's not optimal.
- Laura Norvig
haha Tina, sorry, you're right, my wife is first :)
- Charlie Isaacs
Even though I live in RSS (for Blogs, Twitter, G+, etc), I admit RSS tools do need better filters. Nobody has perfected context and filters.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Path is the same as everything else.
- Laura Norvig
Dave Winer just tweeted "If I were using a Twitter clone, I'd want it to support RSS feeds in both directions, from the start, for everything."
- Charlie Isaacs
Path now lets Arrington nag me about not logging into path. Yay.
- Kevin Marks
"A rogue advertisement sneaks through his junkbuster proxy and spams glowing fifties kitsch across his navigation window which is blinking for a moment before a phage process kills it and spawns a new filter." -Accelerando
- Da
I love that BEHING Steve shot - Tina ROCKS !!!!
- Rocky Barbanica
We are going to have an exclusive product launch from http://www.moboto.co on today's show (he launches soon). It's a cool iOS "appcessory". Plus, I have the latest Windows 8 on today's show.
- Robert Scoble
Kevin: yes, and I retweeted it too. I totally agree with that article.
- Robert Scoble
By the way, Mark Solomon @solomonomolos on Twitter is gonna join me. He worked at HP on the Palm team, so who knows what we'll talk about.
- Robert Scoble
I have, Kevin - I think it was Robert who Retweeted it into my stream..
- Kevin Costain
Oh, he still works at HP. Sort of like Woz when Woz created the Apple I.
- Robert Scoble
Just a few more minutes before we start. Steve is joining everyone into the call.
- Robert Scoble
I don't agree with that whole "a Windows 7 emulator tacked onto it" thing.. ummm.. well, anyway..
- Kevin Costain
Is there a reason why FF is still used as the comment system? Is Google Plus not up to the task?
- Brian Sullivan
Brian: Google+ isn't embeddable yet. Hopefully soon.
- Robert Scoble
Now, I must go.. Have a good one folks... Thanks guys!
- Kevin Costain
Kevin: Windows 7 is sort of hanging out in the background.
- Robert Scoble
I think it is likely that it is not real time either -- that part of it seems very poorly implemented.
- Brian Sullivan
they developed Word and Excel on the Mac
- Kevin Marks
I believe corporations are increasing the rate by which they change due to byod
- studentforce
but people who work "in the enterprise" travel. And tablets are smaller than laptops, people want to get work done on their tablets, I think.
- Laura Norvig
10" $600/avg tablet is the most dominant
- Ankush Narula
Talking to a guy from Princeton the other day and he was telling me all their young and old faculty/staff are using iPads
- Tom Guarriello
MS has to get in the tablet game before Apple/Android totally runs away...but on desktop slow to move...windows tablet needs to have business apps
- dan farber
I don't think that's true, Francine -- not in my workplace anyway, re:age
- Amyloo
Lots of students just don't buy textbooks, not right away anyway, until they are sure they can't get by with out it for a given class
- Amyloo
Kevin, every vessel could be a whiskey glass... in my book
- Tina Chase Gillmor
community colleges aren't going to give each kid an iPad and tell them to read their texts on it, Robert. You are dreaming. Cheap tablets will also be used
- Francine Hardaway
lol, Keith Teare, FUYM! Nice new acronym!
- Tom Guarriello
Studentforce has a point. He may not end up being the platform, but IOS won't be the only one eithrr
- Francine Hardaway
Francine: yup, I know. You probably are right that Android will get in the game but for now all I see is iPads when I visit college campuses and textbook companies. That probably will change, though.
- Robert Scoble
Ellison has a web camera on Oracle roof pointed at Osprey nest.
- clive boulton
@Amyloo He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. (Sponsored by Chicken of the Sea) . . .
- Matt Terenzio
My thoughts exactly. I truly hope i'm not going to be disappointed from the iPhone 5 screen, it's probably gonna be around 4-inch but taller, not wider. Not a fan of that. S III on the other hand...
- Nir Ben Yona
Moe, cops are lagging on distraction, don't really want to enforce the laws on the books. I do think GGlasses could be deadly for very young drivers.
- Amyloo
Is someone referencing us for stock trading advice?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
my young driver loves android turn by turn speaking directions
- Kevin Marks
I think salesforce is gonna be the one that will monetize mobile with identity auth but it won't be 'mobile' like we know it A more accurate description would be 'portability'
- studentforce
live musicians are under attack from recorded music
- Jerome Hughes
Here's a press release for "The Complete Collection" app and unfortunately it states that there were only 150 albums at launch with "more coming soon" http://www.engadget.com/2012...
- Mark Krynsky
Looks like Google wants to piss on Apple's new Mapping Service
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
yes and haven't been Jerry for decades now
- Jerome Hughes
Content and Conduit should be separate, not by law, but from a business perspective, but it seems all these companies are trying to be both
- Stephen Pickering
Stephen: in the future you will share even that. Why? Because the system will bring you better strip club experiences if you are really into that.
- Robert Scoble
Privacy is NOT the big issue of this generation. Addiction is. Stephen showed exactly why. Who cares if I want to go to a strip club? But now that you are bringing me to the best ones I'm totally addicted to the system.
- Robert Scoble
We're already seeing the first precursors to the problems we're going to have with addiction (texting while driving, marriages breaking up, etc).
- Robert Scoble
HE EXPLICITLY FILLED IT IN GUARENTEED - i get these all the time because i run 20+ twitter accounts
- dean collins
Could be a hack of a service with O Auth-connection to your Twitter-account?
- Johannes Siemers
sorry, I had to go away for a minute...I assume you are talking about oauth hacks? there are sites w/info on these types of exploits: http://oauth.net/advisor...
- Charlie Isaacs
here's the explanation I send out to those who send me those that haven't yet said "I was hacked and it's now resolved." …
- Jerome Hughes
a trillion trillion quantum fluxes, one will create a Universe
- Stephen Pickering
eg check out this url as an example of what the page looks like - http://twititre.com/ilogin... - lol dont fill in your username or password otherwise your account will start sending out these fake DM's continuing the circle.
- dean collins
The bubble is not because of the industry but rather because there is so much liquidity sloshing around due to Central Bank stimulation
- Stephen Pickering
sounds like the financial analysts who say salesforce is way too high on a p/e basis. They don't understand the subscription economy
- studentforce
One thing I've noticed, especially being an American, what a relief to watch TV shows on Netflix ad free! never in my life have I had this wonderful experience!
- Stephen Pickering
that's the reason I hate BBc America
- Kevin Marks
Isn't the difference kids dont care about privacy because they use it to discover trust. (thus avoid bad actors)
- clive boulton
Agreed. Everybody has built their worlds on other people's platforms
- Francine Hardaway
family, Steve does not talk with his hand. Kinda wish he did
- Tina Chase Gillmor
People are running out of time in this Pushy world. Gotta aggregate and make it fast nowadays.
- Aron Michalski
what happened to the beginning of my comment? what I meant to say is, unlike people in my family, Steve does not talk with his hands
- Tina Chase Gillmor
I thought you were referring to his puppetry career.
- Aron Michalski
very id of Scoble. "I have an impulse and want it satisfied"
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Ask any business traveller what connectivity is about; paying for hotel internet, finding free access points, delivering your mortgage to your telco every month...
- Aron Michalski
finding a way to provide us with a connection to our infostream and maximize the connection is really important. There's no time to accidentally find important news.
- Aron Michalski
I like having books too. But I'm realizing I use them VERY little now
- Tina Chase Gillmor
I used to like having books, and then I started moving every couple of years, and I got rid of them. Everything I've ever read is now digitized.
- Francine Hardaway
I have them both. TVONTV is like DNA for me. The charger card slot for watching, the bandwidth pirates, the inability to know when realtime is/was...
- Aron Michalski
Where's Kevin Marks? He was talking about identity systems and who would win in this space three years ago
- Francine Hardaway
That's because Apple, Amazon, Facebook operate in a total free market, so they have to be productive and competitive. AT&T and Comcast have no incentive to innovate
- Stephen Pickering
Steve hasn't mentioned Dave Winer either
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
It is weird how these companies are becoming Vertically integrated but that's because the price of techonology keeps halving every 12-18 months.
- Stephen Pickering
I like Doc Searls' Buddhist point that without Jobs vacating the space, further growth is not possible.
- Francine Hardaway
That was a really good summary by Doc, made me feel a lot
- Stephen Pickering
A life well-lived. What more can anyone expect? It's a sad thing but hardly an ending.
- Karoli
I regret Steve's "hobby" -Apple TV- did not roll out in elaborated fashion before he passed. I was looking forward to Apple disrupting another hide-bound industry: TV
- r Macdonald
Robert is choked up and it's choking me up
- Robert J Taylor
r Macdonald: I agree. I can't wait to see what Apple's working on there.
- Robert Scoble
true Karoli, but who is there to lovingly build it and cast a magic spell on it
- Moe Glitz
from iPod
Karoli, I think we overestimate how far he was able to see into the future. Remember it's not that he invented the tablet, or the mp3 player, or the computer: he made them BETTER.
- Francine Hardaway
some gaps on the stream, but not enough to lose the meaning
- Kevin Marks
That's what worries me. He somehow needs to be here to help us make things better.
- Francine Hardaway
It's also part of our time. Hewlett and Packard had just as big an impact, I'd argue, but their impact was in a time before YouTube. Steve Jobs is a world-wide celebrity, arguably the first of Silicon Valley's history.
- Robert Scoble
Here is a link to the Tim Berner-Lee post yesterday, about using NeXT to support his development of URIs, HTTP and HTML http://www.w3.org/QA...
- r Macdonald
I felt that way when I heard Any Grove had Parkinson's disease. He is a hero to me.
- Francine Hardaway
the next Steve Jobs will be a group of people, a braintrust who can work together like great musicians
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Well, Tim Cook has $60 billion to push around and he has Steve Jobs' shoes to fill, so he knows that he better do some big things. But, most of my head is saying Moe is right.
- Robert Scoble
Moe: "replacing Mick Jagger with Kenny Rodgers" ouch
- r Macdonald
Danny is right about the carriers. I can't figure out an economical way to upgrade my iPhone. If I switch to Verizon, I can get a phone for $299, and then I have to do something with whatever I left left on my AT&T contract. And it's not unlocked.
- Francine Hardaway
android is a knock-off of sidekick, but it got a great browser from Apple
- Kevin Marks
I agree - our whole world has changed.
- Teri Temme
Jobs was a great and powerful pitchman. He had to pitch his revolutionary trojan horses to folks like printers, cell carriers, record companies, publishers and film and video distributors. Apple will need to replace this facet of his talent. Who will be able to do this at Apple?
- Alex de Soto
funny, Tina, I was thinking the same thing.
- Karoli
Alex, Apple has other people who do that, but no-one as well.
- Kevin Marks
Alex: Kevin is right. Jobs isn't replaceable. But they will find their own voice over the next few years.
- Robert Scoble
Robert and Kevin: I really hope you are right. I'm counting on it.
- Alex de Soto
the Angel technique still works on them. and parody signs. Violence is what they want, then they sue.
- Kevin Marks
Westboro are just culture parasites. They attack anything popular so that they can get paid attention to. If we stop paying attention to them they go away.
- Robert Scoble
Interesting undercurrent to the discussion is the continued fight against the entrenched interests -- carriers, publishers, networks. That's a point of commonality for all us in the tech world. Interoperability will be huge, but it will take huge efforts to bring it about.
- Ian McGee
Robert, all of those pieces are teams. I suspect that will be the key to Apple's success.
- Karoli
Both Newsweek and Time are having special Tribute issues for Steve. He was a Rock Star
- Moe Glitz
from iPod
I wonder how many people will use "Cards" to send sympathy messages to Apple once the app is released. When I first heard about "Cards" I immediately thought of Steve Jobs, even though many laughed about this seemingly silly app.
- Alex de Soto
Right Kevin :) I could go on with thousands of examples where Jobs made incredibly inspired design decisions. He was more like the old car designers who lovingly thought about every curve on a car.
- Alex de Soto
Danny, iTunes was Job's way of keeping us humble. ;-)
- Ian McGee
It could be that iTunes complexity was to try to assure the music industry that their system would be "safe" - as far flung as that might seem
- Stephen Pickering
But Stallman is probably autistic. My own son does stuff that's hurtful without realizing it because he just doesn't have the brain for social cues.
- Robert Scoble
So, I should be more understanding of Stallman and his condition.
- Robert Scoble
I was talking to Rana-June Sobhany about that - iPad as musical instrument
- Kevin Marks
Most of the people in the world have Facebook. That actually is a brilliant decision and the Gillmor Gang in 2020 will discuss just how brilliant it was.
- Robert Scoble
"Stallman and his condition" well said
- clive boulton
Reminds me of how Clinton can persuade you even when you disagree
- Stephen Pickering
Some have said Steve and Apple didn't "Get social" What do you think?
- r Macdonald
I don't think its they didn't get it, they just couldn't do everything
- Stephen Pickering
r Macdonald: both true and false. Jobs got how we would talk about his products and made them HYPER conversational. Why else ship an iPod with white headphones?
- Robert Scoble
Jobs jettisoned the physical keyboard and need for a stylus on a smartphone. That move alone was brilliant and gutsy.
- Alex de Soto
Still waiting for Apple to release their own Mapping Product
- Moe Glitz
from iPod
My question mark is how will Apple do with the Cloud?
- Stephen Pickering
Interesting take, Robert. Products that are inherently drivers of social discussion & adoption, but no closed gardens for social interchange.
- r Macdonald
Stephen: I do worry about what will happen next week. Hope it goes well.
- Alex de Soto
do you think there were problems with the iPhone 5
- Moe Glitz
from iPod
i hope Danny is talking about upgrading the phone...not the wife ;-)
- Tina Chase Gillmor
why take 15 months to release the same phone
- Moe Glitz
from iPod
I think Bezos is enabling people to build awesome things especially with the Cloud. The investment in capacity and the functionality of AWS is awesome. Changes IT immensely.
- Robert J Taylor
Gray, the studio cat, reset some audio setting before the show and now is crying outside wanting to come in a mess up some other stuff
- Tina Chase Gillmor
G+ is Facebook but for people you're interested in. Unlike Twitter,engagement is confined to comments and likes which means the stream itself is less polluted and easier to find topics/information to converse around.
- Darren
Ales -I was feeling the same about the acceptance of plus. we're already well educated in Social
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Alex, good point. Perhaps we were just being taught to navigate the stream and learn some manners.
- Aron Michalski
2 things G+ needs to add/fix quickly before people get annoyed and move on: 1) only show the last 5 replies, minimizes the rest(user can expand all replies if they want), 2) stop pushing posts to the top when there is a new reply or at least make it an option
- Kenny
Kevin - the people who make all this noise are the Scobles, you, etc of the world, those people get put into a certain circle and I look at it when I want - I switch between stream types to see different info
- Kenny
Seems like Techmeme has slowed it's crawling down considerably.
- coldbrew
Kenny, sounds like you get some utility out of lists (or in this case circles) as also happens here
- Jerome Hughes
I need to confess...I'm having a Corona with lime right now. The weekend begins
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Jerome, yes. I just need G+ to allow me to watch select several stream at once, instead of one at a time, for example let me check off and watch my friends and family streams and not see the others until I want ot
- Kenny
Darren: The info eventually comes from people, so one has to trust the sources or the info is irrelevant.
- coldbrew
Kenny, until you can mix them, do you run multiple tabs for your faves?
- Jerome Hughes
people are a good locus of information; twitter allows non-human authorities to speak too
- Kevin Marks
I would argue more human, but there ya go.
- coldbrew
Jerome, no I just switch between them - kind of a pain right now
- Kenny
On G+, I think I've added about 100 people who have made a good comment - it's as simple as mousing over and adding them to the Following circle (and I've removed people just as quickly for too many crappy posts)
- Ankush Narula
You can add G+ search in Chrome, and i hear of extensions too
- Majento
"If winer didnt built it himself, it sucks" - that's what I'm getting.
- coldbrew
Kevin, That would be a clear circle for me in a folder/list/Flipboard sense with the newsbots in a circle and the respected commenters in another.
- Aron Michalski
coldbrew, the algorithm can leverage people for prioritization, reputation and ranking of the information.
- Darren
I gotcha say Gilmor seems more positive about G+ then any other Google product...I'm shocked
- Kenny
any comments on the gaming announcement?
- Aron Michalski
coldbrew: I think Winer gets frustrated with closed and centralized solutions - it just so happens that most of the popular services of the day are just that
- Ankush Narula
there was a gaming announcement? I thought it was just rumor?
- Kenny
It's a much better product than the last 5 they have presented, even if they are kinda parts of G+
- Aron Michalski
Darren: I suppose. But, I'm one of those people that doesn't like the algorithm, nor data mining. Personal preference, of course.
- coldbrew
There's no question that G+ is genius. It's completely changed my perspective of Google and their future. It's also changed how I think about their existing services.
- Darren
Everyone settle down now, G+ is a brand new service, they will work through these issues (sum might agree with it others won't), Twitter and Facebook all have gone through these issues and will still go through similar issue - It took years for Facebook to get to 750mil users - it will take a while for G+ to grow past these issues
- Kenny
I value Kevin and Steve's pointers more than a media source, more along the lines of an advisor or spiritual guide. I'm sure that sounds daft, but because they bring their personality and brains to the equation, it adds value to the post.
- Aron Michalski
more so than someone who is co-opted by a corporate plan (well, Salesforce has nothing to offer me professionally other than a day of employment next month).
- Aron Michalski
the imagicnation's drying up in Cupertino, all those iPhone stuff today's is trying to catch up to Android
- Tim Jones
Francine: except Twitter hasn't shown us any new features to keep the infrastructure excited.
- Robert Scoble
Would like to hear views on the robustness/richness of native apps & cloud combination vs the thinness of say Google docs - To me, there's no comparison.
- PXLated
Saturday saw MSFT deliberately shifting strategy from marketing to design (Unicorn of love - Hanselman) huge catch up
- clive boulton
PXLated: I'd love to hear more from you on what you think about that.
- Robert Scoble
that's a good airplay feature.. but not necessarily innovative.. just a logical feature to have
- Michael Roberts
Apple did well with icloud - but the problem is most of it isn't designed for groups (although calendar thankfully now is more like google calendar) but how does this work with a family let alone a company.. it's perfect for the mobile - me person.. who uses different machines.
- Michael Roberts
the twitter integration is much deeper than I anticipated. "There is follow graph synchronization, which enables you to bootstrap a user's social graph for your app."
- Jamie
push notifications to multiple end-points over the "cloud" has always been a big-infra problem - Apple *had* to solve it since their infrastructure is so closed
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
untethering the ipad from the PC I think is huge.. I really wonder how many developers (like twitter) will make the ipad - or tablets the primary platform for development and the PC the secondary development platform
- Michael Roberts
Kevin/Louis live in that world where you cut off your nose to spite your face :-)
- PXLated
get soundcrank.com for lyrics and album art
- paisano
I think its game over - agree with Steve
- Keith Teare
Don't see today's wwdc helped Steven Sinofsky, rather put him under massive pressure
- clive boulton
I dont think it is game over until apple follows up with an all you can eat service
- Jamie
cant wait for movies and tv shows now!!!
- Mark Vaske
also this continues to make apple tv a power house
- Mark Vaske
if apple adds ping to icloud & imessage they will have serious facebook challenger
- paisano
being a network ops type person, all I can think about is how much comcast is going to suck out of my wallet with the increase in streaming my personal use will cause
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
cliveb: Steven Sinofsky is gonna struggle. Win8 is late.
- Robert Scoble
cliveb: the game has changed and the Microsoft execs don't quite realize it yet.
- Robert Scoble
The question "What is the Cloud?" and How does it operate with (a) the desktop and (b) mobile devices now has a new answer. Facebook is the BIG loser
- Keith Teare
down here. I heard until “if you integrate with us…” I was hoping to hear you guys discussing this apparent stab at Facebook with Twitter integration.
- Miguel
You guys do an awesome job, thanks to rackspace, tricaster and salesforce :) and Tina
- Paul E. Ester
loved the joke about mobileme... high point of event
- paisano
it will be good for Marco. widens the market. he will always have the edge for features. i.e. Reading Lists is Safari only. what is that, 5% of the desktop market?
- Jamie
docs and open with version histories perhaps?
- Mark Vaske
The Beatles landed on iTunes Nov.16 2010. It is a scary and bold statement to say that iTunes have 99% of the music we care about. I love simplicity of iTunes and Apple, but we must embrace all music and art !!! -like we must love all people, regardless of race, skin or color. Shame on you :-)
- Fredrik Darum
It will push Google but KILL Microsoft
- Ralph Henson
MS looks pretty strong to me. Office 365 kills Google Docs. WP7 so much more refined and powerful than Android. Their media story is that much stronger. Then there is the gaming side (that dashboard today looked awful like apps coming to xbox).
- Jamie
Do you think it'll be easier for Apple to add collaboration or Google to grow a right-brain?
- PXLated
Somethings afoot at Microsoft (it may be Ballmers feet) strategy is shifting to design, coming from ScottGu's team
- clive boulton
Francine: I have a Windows XP machine you can have! ;-)
- Robert Scoble
cloud 1.0 vs cloud 2.0 - 1.0 = mail, calendar, contacts. 2.0 = 1.0 + apps, books, pictures, music, video
- Mark Vaske
Apple will create the first usable robot
- Fredrik Darum
cliveb: Sinofsky knows his big challenge is to keep up with Apple.
- Robert Scoble
Great question Francine... then wait for umbrella...which will block icloud access
- paisano
cliveb: I don't see good things for Microsoft ahead. They should have bet harder on Xbox instead of Windows brand. Poor leadership there.
- Robert Scoble
7.5 has a very solid list of features though. a lot of which were announced today by Apple. for me it has by and large caught up with the kind of core functionality you would expect, as well as excelling in areas like gaming, media (particularly over Android)
- Jamie
Jamie: hmmm. Got it. Damn that's intuitive.
- Robert Scoble
not ideal OOBE. but funnily enough I find the syncing mechanism (it picks up your iTunes library/playlists/podcasts etc) to be better than what it is on the PC via Zune
- Jamie
Redmond must stop LOAP development (Lipstick on a Pig) and go whole hog from the ground up
- paisano
not sure W8 is that though. the whole "its just a skin" meme is kinda stupid
- Jamie
i know...win8 is pleasant radical departure
- paisano
clearly W8 is a platform in itself... with a new app environment... apis specifically for it. the likes of engadget and thisismynext are writing it off as some kind of HTC-sense piece of work. crazy.
- Jamie
the question for me is not why it runs "classic" windows, but whether it will run adequately on low power chips, and deliver the 8-10 hours battery life needed
- Jamie
windows phone picks up your itunes libraries? Won't Apple squash that like they did to WebOS on palm?
- Kevin Marks
Hi Francine, what part of the world are you in today?
- Robert Scoble
More cats please, not less. Will Improve the show. Sorry Francine, know you like the canines better but cats are the key to monitization of the internet.
- Aron Michalski
last night on TummelVision, we had Heather calling in from her car crossing the Canada to US border, and me in a taxi crossing the Denver plains
- Kevin Marks
Without Ballmer there would be no crazy, screaming videos of him on stage.
- Michael Krigsman
feels really awkward using office, only using word for spell / grammar checker
- clive boulton
I actually think NetMeeting worked well for the time
- Francine Hardaway
I use the Word 2010 grammar checking on every single blog post I write. It's fantastic.
- Michael Krigsman
Multi tasking on iPad doesn't work well even without AirPlay
- Francine Hardaway
I love the fact that those of us who won't bite on the Microsoft upgrades receive .docx files and get to use Google Docs to see them. Then, you can save them as .doc and download them. Cloud workaround.
- Aron Michalski
iPad multi-tasking is really task switching, like on the very very old versions of windows
- Michael Krigsman
Just getting used to iPad limits; after blasting around even on the N1 with multiple things going, it's a more linear usage experience.
- Aron Michalski
Michael: yes, true. But does it matter? Not for most things.
- Robert Scoble
but why would Zuck do that? It's a Facebook world now
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Charlie: I hear Muglia wasn't very good, from other people inside Microsoft. But, even if he were, I don't think he is what Microsoft needs.
- Robert Scoble
Yep. That's why I wrote my "Twitter for Seniors" post:-)
- Francine Hardaway
Twitter is a tool that allows me to use YOU GUYS to 'curate' all of the stuff that's going on in the tech world!
- Ralph Henson
Kevins nailed it, Active Client over Active Directory.
- clive boulton
IMO Twitter needs to buy more companies so they can solidify their revenue base to provide support for their ridiculous market valuation
- Charlie Isaacs
I watched #tcdisrupt and Eurovision with it, that was fun. It's making me watch live TV again
- Kevin Marks
Am surprised how Filpboard changes the reading experience. the list-y experience of IM and clients is comfortable; I feel like I'm missing something in some way.
- Aron Michalski
It's like someone who is used to command line than a snazzy UI.
- Aron Michalski
Nokia's existing developer community will now move to Android - not Windows Phone 7.
- Ankush Narula
Ankush: the Nokia developer community is irrelevant. If they WERE relevant we would be using Nokia devices.
- Robert Scoble
There is certainly a good chance this partnership can work. MS shows a willingness to throw large amounts of cash, but NOK does seem to be throwing in the towel.
- coldbrew
I don't get this whole internet + call stuff, I have a Droid Incredible and have basically never wanted to do that.
- Eric Florenzano
Apple and Google absolutely need each other equally. They are like two stars in a dual star system locked in a gravitational dance
- Stephen Pickering
Ankush: and, anyway, WinPhone7 has better developer tools.
- Robert Scoble
Apple needs Google's data, Google needs Apple's distribution
- Stephen Pickering
Robert: It's a big culture shift - essentially Nokia is becoming Microsoft Jr. by dumping all of their platforms and tools. Won't this won't cause a shakeup internally at Nokia and with Nokia's partners?
- Ankush Narula
If either Apple or Google got rid of each other, they would lose too much credibility in the marketplace
- Stephen Pickering
I'm not arguing against the merits of WP7
- Ankush Narula
I've had this computer for months and just had to install silverlight. That speaks volumes of Silverlight lack of traction.
- Matt Terenzio
Robert: I've heard similar sentiments
- Ankush Narula
Ankush: but Silverlight will kick along for a few years, just like Visual Basic kicked along for a few years after they stopped caring about that.
- Robert Scoble
Scoble: I'm pretty sure Silverlight is Windows Phone 7's main development platform, isn't it?
- Eric Florenzano
"sure, you pay heavily for a fast internet connection that is always on, but servers are hard. Pay us a monthly fee. It is SO much easier"
- coldbrew
Silverlight is dead is a big story. But it makes sense for Microsoft to do this.
- John Taschek
I would be surprised if they went all in on HTML5, but hell, that would be the kind of thing that's crazy enough to work...especially to get developers on board.
- Eric Florenzano
In the 70s there three networks. Today there are two. hehehheh
- Stephen Pickering
Does the death of silverlight mean that devs are already being redirected away from the silverlight WP7 toolkit?
- John Taschek
Eric: for now, but it's clear that WinPhone7 will move toward HTML 5 in future.
- Robert Scoble
BGR just posted that HP TouchPad planned for June, priced at $699?
- Kenny
And so WP7, Android and webOS all seem to be aligning behind HTML5 apps. Even Bret Taylor is talking about killing native FB apps.
- Ankush Narula
Shouldn't you differentiate among silverlight wpf AND .net?
- coldbrew
what evidence is there that people are aligning behind html5 apps? if anything it is the opposite... apps are very much still the most popular way to deploy for mobile
- Jamie
coldbrew: it doesn't say. Just a quick small post no real details other then price and month. http://www.bgr.com/2011...
- Kenny
Here we go, Links are dead again. ; )
- Matt Terenzio
Jamie: I'm speaking of deployment methodology as well as development tools.
- Ankush Narula
I think Facebook's whole philosophy is that your friends need to become your filter on everything, and they think that hasn't happened yet for news.
- Eric Florenzano
For those of us normal people there is a huge lurk factor.
- coldbrew
I have a pretty similar friends base on Twitter and Facebook (pretty geeky) and Twitter is by far more for sharing news/links whereas Facebook is more about personal status updates. This is in part because of how people treat the services differently. Facebook more about small private friends (reciprocal) vs. Twitter more open (public follows)
- Mark Krynsky
I think my wife is running Pandora One and it sucked bandwidth. So I am in the fog and the aquarium, even though it's a sunny day in San Francisco!
- John Taschek
I just don't see that RIM is losing - I see Blackberries everywhere and I see them selling all the time. Not to mention that they're pretty entrenched in government and enterprise.
- Ankush Narula
Too late -- biz already moving to Android. At least according to my workplace mobile stats.
- Amyloo
Buying HTC would not only stunt Android's largest OEM, but HTC has proven that they're competent and well-led.
- Eric Florenzano
They have moved to WebKit - the Torch
- Ankush Narula
and the bulk of RIMs audience is actually NOT enterprise, but consumer. ppl underestimate bbm
- Jamie
Kenny - IcedRobot fork, yes. But Google will cave to Oracle.
- clive boulton
Francine, yes it is, as an effect but it is mainly to repair the humanity of the human voice. Watch Glee and see how much soul is sucked out of it by productions decision to run it through the software.
- Aron Michalski
Won't Blackberry become less relevant as e-mail use declines?
- Amyloo
Stephen: be careful, you gotta read them the right way. RIM is in deep trouble, just like Nokia is.
- Robert Scoble
The dumbphone market will go along with my @cgerrish discussion, the off the grid/on the grid one, where identity and legality will blip on and off.
- Aron Michalski
I will say Apple will remain the leader in tablets, not because it's so much better but it's very good and priced extremely well...unlike the over price Android tablets, they are very good but over priced
- Kenny
Voice/text is a given dumbphone feature but will the web be?
- Aron Michalski
THe problem with HP is that great geniuses always have weaknesses, and like how they got rid of Hurd, they won't allow any CEO that has any weakness which loses the genius part
- Stephen Pickering
cliveb: I hope I can get some functionality on mythTV :)
- coldbrew
careful; Gillmor may be Apple only, an Android app would be blasphemous.
- Aron Michalski
Michalski: It makes him feels safe, and I don't think he is alone.
- coldbrew
Twitter found its highest, best use today when Steve Martin tweeted "Dancin' by the Nile," followed by "Mubarak's dancin' wear: dress socks, sandals, bag over head."
- Denise Howell
Twitter might have aided in the Egyptian revolution. But in the end, a good old phone call to GW Bush from Mubarak helped the former dictator dodge a million pairs of shoes.
- Ankush Narula
because once we see them being used, we develop intuitions for them
- Kevin Marks
I mean back in 2004 when I was tooling around with a retail store, I could have been building Facebook!
- Stephen Pickering
Novell played a game that it wasn't good at - buying WordPerfect to compete with Microsoft. Not upping the ante in the ring 0 versus ring 3 debate. Getting crushed in the channel too.
- John Taschek
there are a lot of people don't have this sort of access and if the economic disparity between the lower and higher classes means those who don't have access are screwed in other words
- Xenophrenia
you don't need to stream them, you can download them and start playing while they are downloading
- Kevin Marks
if i rent a dvd from netflix, can I rip said dvd to my imac?
- Stephen Pickering
Andrew: my late adopter brother in law bought a 3DTV. You'd be shocked to learn that there are SOME people who will want 3D.
- Robert Scoble
I live on the edge since I am currently unemployed ... I may lose access to my broadband ... then what? ... if I don't have stuff here I will be left with nothing if everything goes to online
- Xenophrenia
Privilege Denying Scoble strikes again, Xenophrenia?
- Kevin Marks
? ... I didn't say he was denying me privileges ... just pointing out that the cloud may not be always available for some
- Xenophrenia
Xenophrenia: true enough! :-) But then if you live in a tent in Africa you probably have a series 60 Nokia phone and nothing else. So, I don't need to worry about them too much.
- Robert Scoble
Xenophrenia: the numbers of people who don't have access to cloud go down every day.
- Robert Scoble
Xenophrenia: and this show is about the bleeding edge, which is moving to Netflix streaming VERY quickly.
- Robert Scoble
Robert doesn't care about normal people. :x
- Michael Breslin
But there are things that could severely disrupt that access ... and then what ... hell ... Northern lights have brought down power in Canada before
- Xenophrenia
Michael: right. :-) Normal people copy us eventually.
- Robert Scoble
cost/home is about the cost of a new fence
- Kevin Marks
I can't imagine that Emmanuel or any of the other Hollywood establishment really and truly get any of the new technology that is being discussed here.
- Chris Aldrich
We'd already have fiber to the home if there weren't telecom regulation
- Stephen Pickering
As for comcast and their ilk, they planned on charging toll fees when they bought/laid the pipes, assuming their lobby would be strong enough to crush any oposition.
- Michael Breslin
And as things are in the cloud how much easier to control the message will it be? ...
- Xenophrenia
cartels always get disrupted... eventually
- Andrew Hazlett
Ari said .99 was too low for a song, and that Jobs had screwed the labels, and they weren't going to let that happen to video
- Stephen Pickering
The problem with the entertainment establishment is that the financial models of the "old" distribution and the "new" distribution don't meet nicely in the middle. It's going to take a massive and very painful transition to bridge the gap.
- Chris Aldrich
Verizon is provisioning fibre to home (Comcast is not)
- clive boulton
Jobs saved the labels. He gave them ALL the money from iTunes sales
- Kevin Marks
The value of media ownership goes down as quality content requiring 1080p becomes scarcer (for me). I don't buy as many blu-ray movies and am content with Netflix because there aren't as many new good movies that interest me.
- Alex de Soto
Michael, that's right, and using government to competitive advantage is not true capitalism
- Stephen Pickering
Verizon is no longer provisioining any more fiber.
- coldbrew
We moved the living room around, and now the Sofa is further from the TV, so netflix quality is good enough ;)
- Kevin Marks
we will not have copies of important files that could quietly start 'disappearing' online ... I tend to see what can go wrong ... and unfortunately have seen it happen too often ... I don't want to say I told you so ... but I see it ... the possibility of it
- Xenophrenia
I agree Kevin, and then Ari really went off on O'Reilly who suggested DRM free video would help sales
- Stephen Pickering
What you call it is irrelevant, it's reality. It will happen, net neutrality will lose imo, too much money is at stake for big companies.
- Michael Breslin
boulton: They are concentrating on getting more of their footprint subscribed.
- coldbrew
Provisioning fiber is phenomenally expensive... The reason the last mile is called a "problem" is that the cost is so high.
- Chris Aldrich
Because he's an agent and his business model involves taking 10% off someone else's work, Ari Emmanuel is NOT going to be in a position to discuss where entertainment ought to go -- it's one of the few areas over which he has any influence.
- Chris Aldrich
Tina, which daughter went to the ER? Everything okay?
- Francine Hardaway
In the long run, youtube will be the attack on the Cartel
- Stephen Pickering
In the four years of 2006 to 2009, music purchases increased from a record starting point of 1 billion purchases to the new record point of 1.5 billion music purchases.
- Kevin Marks
This doesn't mean many musicians are making money
- Francine Hardaway
No way stephen, the attack on the cartel will come when a massively popular smash television-like series is released online.
- Michael Breslin
All of this is a DISTRIBUTION PROBLEM at its root. Why isn't anyone discussing this aspect of the issue?
- Chris Aldrich
The difference is today, a lot more smaller artists can make a living selling a few thousand records, and touring
- Stephen Pickering
distribution is now solved for music
- Kevin Marks
The internet itself is the great distribution disruptor
- Stephen Pickering
we are never going to make the huge numbers anymore ... if we use that as a comparison ... it will always come up short ... everyone wants to go back tot the 'golden age' ... it ain't gonna happen
- Xenophrenia
When you allow your product to be accessed easily at a reasonable price suddenly piracy becomes minimal.
- Michael Breslin
That's because Neil Young released it at 24-bit 196K, had to be on DVD
- Stephen Pickering
I ran a budget for a start up television network in July which included the startup and operation for one year providing 80 hours a week of live content. It ran at $50M versus the approximately $500M that networks like Bravo, TLC, or The Food Network were running at about 5 years ago.
- Chris Aldrich
Fifty years ago musicians could not support themselves either.
- Francine Hardaway
Francine - left her there. Think everything ok but don't know diagnosis yet
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Same thing will go for movies, netflix started it but their play now selection is crap, when you can easily get any movie you'd want to watch at a reasonable price, nirvana!
- Michael Breslin
Cloud storage costs less and more competitive than home storage?
- Arnie Klaus
That's a whole other issue, Steve. You have to order it off a TV informercial llike the music of WWII LOL
- Francine Hardaway
iPad is not comfortable for reading, I find
- Andrew Hazlett
Look at the history of publishing from Gutenberg: books, newspapers, radio, television... Over time it's become cheaper and cheaper for a larger audience to produce content. Networks like this one or even Leo Laporte's twit.tv have such a minimal cost that the average user will be able to run a tv station out of their home bathroom. The real difference will be the quality of the content.
- Chris Aldrich
Andrew: it's comfortable enough and the one coming next year is gonna have an ultra res screen.
- Robert Scoble
Good episode this week isn't it folks
- David Lloyd
@Robert: I didn't mean the quality in terms of the "technical" but rather the quality in terms of consumption... the difference in softer value between the movie Titanic and the YouTube video your cousin just shot. The desire to see either of these two is vastly different because of this perceived quality.
- Chris Aldrich
(Sidebar: Just switched over to Gillmor Gang Live Stream via Android Ustream Beta - working fine).
- Micah
Chris: and YouTube is catching up very quickly. I can now distribute 1080p via it and I think they are now taking 4K files.
- Robert Scoble
you can buy the liner notes on the kindle?
- Kevin Marks
The problem is the upload speed. That's why I cut my shows down to 480i.
- Robert Scoble
Chris, that's why I said youtube won't be the cartel killer, it's going to take a great quality television-like series to make people realize they can consume something great without having to get it from the content cartel.
- Michael Breslin
Let's look at the books in the Library of Congress: there are millions and millions but only about one tenth of one percent has the greatest value and the highest circulation and readership. The real question is who will make and distribute the best one tenth of one percent of video entertainment in the next 10 years? Right now big media (Fox, Disney, Sony, et al.) have it.
- Chris Aldrich
Just because its in a book with a Harvard Reference doesnt make it right :)
- David Lloyd
there are so many great songs stolen from the folk music etc
- Xenophrenia
Ian: Is Listen good? I have a nexus one by I normally consume audio on my ipod nano for the itunes podcast subscribing/syncing.
- Michael Breslin
Does anyone remember what happened to the Iridium Satellite network when it became much cheaper to do terrestrial cellular phone based technology? Billions and billions lost... The same thing is about to happen to the so-called "big-media."
- Chris Aldrich
Rolling Stones, Beatles ... all of them did it
- Xenophrenia
go look on my iTunes pulse account for all the music my son has downloaded...
- Kevin Marks
Listen is better than alternatives. Some bugs in forward/back scanning & occasional glitches, but serviceable enough I don't do audio books much anymore.
- Ian McGee
Through what means are they receiving Disney Kids radio Steve?
- Chris Aldrich
Kevin, sounds great, I'd like to move from carrying phone+nano to just phone.
- Michael Breslin
The only thing I don't like about today's stars such as Eminem is they dont play any instruments
- Stephen Pickering
Steve noted a lot of small musicians are struggling, but no one has a right to be a successful musician so its hard to feel bad that not everyone can be a musicial success
- David Lloyd
Michael -- yes, Listen remembers where you were on multiple streams. Also on Android auto-pauses when I pull the audio cord out.
- Ian McGee
David: I know I told him the nano does everything he wants and he got angry with me and others for suggesting apple. (too expensive he says)
- Michael Breslin
michael look at doubletwist too - thats like itunes, except syncs over wifi as well as tether
- Kevin Marks
I listen to music from all over the place: ITunes, Rdo, Pandora, etc
- Francine Hardaway
Millionaire Dave Winer says the SHuffle is too expensive :)
- David Lloyd
I call BS on the death of the paper book, especially for home reading
- Andrew Hazlett
Stephen: yeah, if you're looking for instrumentals, Eminem ain't it.
- Robert Scoble
Andrew: it's interesting that the PR industry still sends me paper. I hate it.
- Robert Scoble
if you want instrumentals, try Zoe Keating
- Kevin Marks
David: I know right, and since he has macs you'd think he wouldn't mind itunes.
- Michael Breslin
Anyone who loves poetry loves rap. For instruments, try jazz
- Francine Hardaway
who doesn't love a dusty old paperweight on their shelves... or two
- David Lloyd
Barns and Noble coffee shoppe, Steve's right
- clive boulton
I wish someone would explain the Level 3 story clearly, its a really confusing story
- David Lloyd
Comcast is definitely the bad guy. They are an unearned monopoly
- Stephen Pickering
Will bookstores eventually make all their money off of coffee and muffins the same way movie theaters stay in business by selling popcorn? (movies = books)
- Chris Aldrich
Lloyd: Couldn't do it well without spamming this thread.
- coldbrew
Andrew: Comcast = NBC Universal = Content = Threatened by netflix.
- Michael Breslin
I like theaters with cabaret tables and beer for sale.
- coldbrew
So we should be beholden to Apple's control?
- Xenophrenia
Isn't everyone having an app just meant to supplement the revenue made from the album?
- Michael Breslin
What about the psychological difference? It's always much more fun (and funnier) to see a great comedy movie in a packed movie house than to watch it by oneself. Or to see Neil in concert live with 100,000 others than to listen alone on an .mp3 player.
- Chris Aldrich
Neil Young was right, analog audio much superior, but Neil recorded this in 24-bit, 196k sample rate which is getting closer
- Stephen Pickering
I mean tehatre with actors, not cinema
- Kevin Marks
Now I can make some extra money for selling a 5$ ipod app along with my album.
- Michael Breslin
Stephen: actually Neil records most things in analog. Costs $6000 per hour of tape.
- Robert Scoble
coldbrew: seconded...theaters with cabaret tables and beer
- clive boulton
Jimmy Stewart's one great regret was that he never did as much live theater as Henry Fonda did... there's something more visceral about the intimacy and closeness of an audience.
- Chris Aldrich
Chris: Subjective, I don't like to leave the house, and the more people, the less likely I'm apt to go. :)
- Michael Breslin
Ah, Robert, interesting, then I heard he released it in 24 bit 196 as oppossed to most CD quality of 16/44
- Stephen Pickering
Chris, with a good crowd it's great. But so many times it's people thinking they're still in their living room, chatting, repeating lines, talking on phones... Maybe I'm getting old.
- Ian McGee
@Michael, some of that problem with more people is that movie theaters aren't designed like they used to be where they anticipated massive crowds and had bigger houses and lobbies as a result. These days your local 30-plex has a much more caged feel cutting down on the overall quality of the "going out" experience.
- Chris Aldrich
YouTube on the TV is a good thing, and it makes sense for that
- Kevin Marks
Isn't that chasing your tail? You need the audience to get the cartels but you can't get the audience because you don't have access to the content from the cartels?
- Michael Breslin
The app I use to view Youtube on my TV pulls down the MP4 file directly and look much cleaner than the FLV you normally see.
- David Lloyd
John's camera is in MySpace angle mode...
- Kevin Marks
@Tina, just imagine what it would look like if there was an audience of 100,000 of us interacting... how would we scale this for a bigger group?
- Chris Aldrich
Anyone received free GoogleTV from I/O?
- clive boulton
when we were on TWiT network things moved too fast at times
- David Lloyd
I was bugged by Amazon's turning off WikiLeaks....
- Ian McGee
Chris: I had a party this week and 80 people rocked. More doesn't.
- Robert Scoble
Have you noticed the debate is not what the documents revealed, but how they were aqquired?
- David Lloyd
So,, we'd hav to "bless" 80 people to be in main chat and then everyone else would have to be somewhere else.
- Robert Scoble
Or you'd have to have a field of dedicated producers/filters to weed out the lower "quality" discussion for the benefit of the masses...
- Chris Aldrich
The other people would get to watch the stream but not contribute. How non-internetish
- Francine Hardaway
We are not talking about the contents of the leaks, but if Amazon was right to kick em off.
- David Lloyd
David, there are starting to be proper stories about the contents. First had to hear from everyone that hadn't read them about why it was a non-story.
- Ian McGee
Francine: yes, but the chat rooms always suck when they get too many people in them.
- Robert Scoble
Television need an open API! Who is working on that?!
- Chris Aldrich
Why does nothing run as smoothly as FriendFeed? Not even FB does
- Stephen Pickering
Flash burns the CPU / battery. As does HD Video. It should be my choice if I want to use apps which burn my battery, apple shouldn't forbid me.
- David Lloyd
chris you'd scale by segmenting by friends - twitter model
- Kevin Marks
weekend nights the Uk heckles xfactor ontwitter
- Kevin Marks
Stephen: FriendFeed is done by programming geniouses. :-)
- Robert Scoble
he basically wants them to name a price and have streaming movies on premier night
- David Lloyd
if level 3 want to mess with comcast, they'll set up a free disk backup service for comcast customers so the upstream bandwidth matches the downstream, so it counts as peering
- Kevin Marks
@Kevin, I agree, but sadly when you look at other countries, none of them dominate world media the way that the US does. (The nice side benefit though is the maintenance of individual cultures...)
- Chris Aldrich
ahh the cinema, home of a gallon of pop for £4.50 and a bucket full of pop corn for another fiver :D
- David Lloyd
Darn. Just got home and see only the last chat remarks, "Good show, " "good show." Always reminds me of the forced walk-by for kid soccer or little league, hand slap and grumbling "good game."
- Amyloo
"It’s taking something everyone knows on the web (your email address) and making it immensely more valuable as a way to identify yourself and information about you. Exactly what kind of information? Here are some of the ideas from the WebFinger Google Code page: * public profile data * pointer to identity provider (e.g. OpenID server) * a public key * other services used by that email address (e.g. Flickr, Picasa, Smugmug, Twitter, Facebook, and usernames for each) * a URL to an avatar * profile data (nickname, full name, etc) * whether the email address is also a JID, or explicitly declare that it’s NOT an email, and ONLY a JID, or any combination to disambiguate all the addresses that look like something@somewhere.com * or even a public declaration that the email address doesn’t have public metadata, but has a pointer to an endpoint that, provided authentication, will tell you some protected metadata, depending on who you authenticate as."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
I don't want my contact information to be my identifier. I shouldn't have to give a website my email address, just like I shouldn't have to give a store my phone number.
- Daniel Sims
Daniel, I think it just takes the form of an email address, but does not in fact have to be one (or could be a "throw away" account).
- Paul Buchheit
It would be cool if we could get our act together (as an industry) and make this stuff happen. I'd also like to see ENUM deployed to the point that my phone number can be linked to my identity. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...)
- Joe Beda
This is a bad idea in so many ways I can't even begin to list them.
- April Russo
If a site wants my email address, it's probably in order to spam me. It's usually a bad sign. If legit sites ask for my email more, it will make it harder to identify the spammers.
- Tim Tyler
Do gmail users seriously still have problems with spam? I don't.
- Robin Barooah
Personally this sounds great - as long as it really doesn't force you to use your actual gmail address.
- Robin Barooah
Does this mean I can have a .plan again?
- Benjamin Lee
Sounds like the .plan which is (again) accessed via an id in email format and returns different information/metadata about a person depending on who's accessing it. Email id is used to do a DNS lookup in order to discover URL for the XRD file (accessed with a HTTP GET) containing the metadata about the person being, er, WebFinger-ed.
- Nenad Nikolic
it is like user authenticating, having two three ids won't hurt ;) well i don't want to be identified, they are going same as gravatar
- testbeta
It's so curious to me that people have concerns that WebFinger would lead to more spam, and yet don't like the "format" of URLs for IDs. Personally, as far as OpenID is concerned, I don't care what the identifier looks like as long as people can remember it — typically email seems easier to recall than URLs (for most people in today's world).
- Chris Messina
Some users who have an email account with Google, myself included, have oodles of incoming mail both standard and secure so it fits the bill to increase security for both vendors and marketers.
- frank burns
I have no problem with the idea, but it seems to me that it won't help the current state of affairs much. The kind of information I'd be interested in sharing via Webfinger (my OpenID, a URL to a FOAF file, etc.) will have no better adoption, so the Webfinger configuration doesn't buy me much. I'll hold out hopes that after a couple tight integrations between Webfinger and OpenID providers (say if Google, Microsoft and/or Yahoo provided and consumed both) things will improve ... here's to hoping :(
- J. McConnell
Years ago I experimented with FOAF. I didn't fully understand nor appreciate what I was doing. To serve as a warning, if you take this example, ensure that it is blocked. #Example: I sent a file to Adobe which in turn, was sent to another email account I had at the time. I verified it's sender (ME) and sent it back in the direction of travel. A signed FOAF (API KEY) was then returned...
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- frank burns
I just pointed to these pictures and told my 27 year old daughter that this is what I'm asking Santa for next year. She says, a toy car? I say no. Grandkids! She slapped my arm and told me to bite my tongue. :)
- Dawn
It's also interesting in the context of the fact DirecTV viewers no longer get the Versus sports network, as they couldn't negoiate a deal with Comcast
- Ken Sheppardson
ask Al Gore how he feels about their negotiations re: Current TV
- Karoli
Comcast is very aggressive in keeping out local competitors - they have bought every local cable company or forced them out. They have locked out all local sporting events
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Yeah, here in San Francisco we couldn't get the Stanford/Cal game this fall... it was on Versus. And it means no daily, live Tour de France coverage next July :-(
- Ken Sheppardson
It was "rooter" before people started to mispronounce it.
- Gregg H.
I wonder what this means for their TV On Demand section - currently NBC is not listed for any shows and CBS is very big in that list. Will this change and now NBC will only be On Demand? Will Hulu now be a Comcast Cable only site?
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
The Network has changed to the point that combining cable + tv production can't corner the market in anything.
- Cliff Gerrish
consolidation of power and message control
- Karoli
cliff, if i have no access to nbc news because i'm not a comcast subscriber, the messages aren't especially helpful.
- Karoli
Don't you have access to NBC news via the network?
- Cliff Gerrish
cliff - they already "load balance" based on where/when you are streaming from/to - so now what's to prevent them from load balancing all ABC/CBS sites in favour of NBC?
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Francine, the argument against the acquistion is that they'll control the Network. They won't.
- Cliff Gerrish
That's a good question - will Comcast/NBC still allow Netflix/Mediafly content to be streamed at full speed or will it become traffic shaped
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
you mean will the net be.. you know... neutral?
- Ken Sheppardson
Google will spank properties that throttle - that alone will keep them playing fair.
- Rob La Gesse
All proprietary un-free software and platforms will lose in the long run.
- Gregg H.
Windows is dog slow on good rigs, whereas Chrome OS is fast even on weak hardware.
- Vezquex
Cliff, they already do. If I am watching a streaming video for more than 5 minutes I get traffic shaped. If i'm watching Comcast On Demand I do not. Will Hulu now be traffic shaped or will it get a pass? That what will be the clue if they are acting in a network neutral manner
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Francine - it is basically throttling of your bandwidth based on content and/or destination
- Rob La Gesse
Francine - if i'm streaming a video on Comcast the first 5 or so minutes are at my full bandwidth capability (15mbs) but if I continue past that point the speed of the video drops to less than 1mbs
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
But Silverlight is from Microsoft. How can it be good?
- Vezquex
Amazing Silverlight is actually seeing some traction. Developer Cuz predicted it would 2 years ago.
- JimmyJet
When Google switches Youtube videos to Ogg Theora natively palyabe in HTML 5 Browsers I think Gillmor and others that deride the importance of free software codecs and platforms will have a revelation
- Gregg H.
bah - I have to run an errand - I wish the video show could be viewed later
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
wish those questions had been asked in 2001
- Karoli
Bear - it can - they are always posted on building43.com a few days later.
- Rob La Gesse
Gillmor Gang is available on YouTube - your DVR of choice...
- Cliff Gerrish
google'll be using h264 and html5 video before any os codec
- Kevin Marks
Silverlight is as un-free as you can get.
- Gregg H.
Mike - use a hand grenade, Those suckers are tough!
- Rob La Gesse
seriously, take a pair of scissors and cut it. It works. surgically, even.
- Karoli
Is locked down linux an open system?
- Cliff Gerrish
The importance of the use of our computer devices in our lives are fundamental. That's why the software and hardware has to be free. Otherwise we don't control our lives. The software and hardware providers control our lives. That's the problem Steve.
- Gregg H.
But you need a real computer to debug anything. You couldn't actually debug from within Chrome OS.
- Vezquex
Is ChromeOS going to give you access to the command line?
- Cliff Gerrish
Gregg - that's crazy. As crazy as "free" healthcare.
- Rob La Gesse
strange disconnect between these guys talking about high tech and Mike opening a plastic insane package with his teeth.
- Karoli
The importance of the use of cars, homes, electricity and food in our lives are fundamental. That's why cars, homes, electricity and food has to be free. Otherwise we don't control our lives. [oh, "free" free]
- Ken Sheppardson
Chromium is NOT free. I pay for it with my attention and my gestures - and Google profits off both.
- Rob La Gesse
"opening a plastic insane package with his teeth" Either a good way to take out aggression or raise blood pressure, take your choice.
- JimmyJet
the livestream from SuperNova has been great. Good panels and very good discussions.
- Jerry Schuman
If we understand that phones are going to the Network -- why don't we see that television is going there as well.
- Cliff Gerrish
Aside from a philosophical view. After being Windows free for 2 years and being free of malware, spyware, adware, and not having to run virus scan software and all that crap, I really don't understand why people like Gillmor think Linux is second class to Windows. I would never want the pain and horrible experience of using Windows again purely for practical reasons.
- Gregg H.
Gregg, I understand Windows 7 is quite nice. I'm planning to buy a cheap Windows 7 notebook as a backup machine.
- Karoli
You guys should talk a bit about Status.net, formerly Laconi.ca. Evan Proudomu just got over $1 Mil in VC. It could wind up being a very viable free federated decentralized competitor to Twitter.
- Gregg H.
/hangs up logic hat on rack and retires.
- Louis Gray
If all the tasty stuff of a cake comes from the sugar, why not use all sugar and no flour, eggs, or milk? ;-)
- Amit Patel
Amit the chemist, ladies and gentlemen.
- Josh Haley
Because then no one would be on FriendFeed :-P
- Jesse Stay
Because the inspiration often comes from the perspiration of the 80% work. Most people are not able to be inspired 100% of the time, though there are a few at Google who are.
- no name
Now how many people thought I was 100% serious on this question instead of just 20%? I'm getting a lot of 100% answers.
- Louis Gray
Is "innovation" the emergence of new competitors from that time? ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Maybe Google should give all of their employees 100 1% projects. Then they'd really have a bunch of new ideas. One exception, though; one person gets stuck modifying Gmail to let you see your mail in an unthreaded date plus time received order.
- Sue - Friendfeed is best
The all sugar cake is not only sweet and tasty; a big tablespoonful of it swallowed quickly, at the right time, often cures hiccups.
- Sue - Friendfeed is best
"Social media researcher Danah Boyd has heard a lot of conversations just like this. In her work for Microsoft she's spoken to teens all over the country about their use of social media. She thinks the online social world is dividing up, just like the real world."
- Ken Sheppardson
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Best to you, Johnny my boy!! <3 Georgia's got a pretty good one. :)
- Derrick
Happy Fathers Day, Johnny, each year my princess gives me a beautiful photo of herself, an awesome hand-crafted card and if I've been really good . . . a block of chocolate . . . I thank god that some one loves me . . .
- Chris Loft
Happy Father's Day from the West Coast of teh United States. I hear what you're saying and agree: my daughter is 3y 4mo and is, like yours, the BEST. PRESENT. EVER.
- Michael