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Nowy sposób tworzenia interfejsów za pomocą Silverlight - http://pda.pl/news...
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Reading about unusual Twitter uses (http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009...) and musing that the WA arrival of Copper River salmon spawned a hashtag: #CRSalmon.
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Live now: Dr. Kiki's Science Hour. The topic is Global Warming. http://live.twit.tv Discuss here....
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the earth will look after itself
- Philip Wilkinson
Perhaps the question is what if the earth doesn't like us doing what we're doing to it ... and it decides to kick us out!!!
- Chip Duford
philip: sure, but who's looking out for us/me?
- Chris Heath
i like how he said that the question of expense, and should we pay for it is a political/policy one and not one for him to answer
- Chris Heath
People are not generally motivated by compassion for non-human objects. They are motivated by money and cost-savings.
- Joel Zehring
Has anyone mentioned Dr. Kiki's earrings? Looking good
- Matthew
There is a new conspiracy theory that it is a plot cooked up by Europe to weaken the U.S. economy. Their countries are more suited to mass transit than pretty much the entire deep South, Midwest, and Big Sky parts of the country that are too spread out for light rail to make a big dent in gasoline usage. Crackpot, but not without consequences that merit discussion.
- Jomichael Porter
The U.S. has massive reserves of energy stored in domestic coal. Limiting carbon emission denies us access to that energy store.
- Jomichael Porter
When is this going to be available as a podcast on iTunes?
- Jomichael Porter
Sorry, "netcast."
- Jomichael Porter
probably tomorrow
- Matthew
Last week's isn't there yet. At least I couldn't find it.
- Jomichael Porter
Call in now at +1 724-444-7444 or log into http://www.talkshoe.com/talksho... and search for twit
- Leo Laporte
Is there any significance to the data that says 95% of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is water vapor, only about 4% of the remainder is CO2, and only something like 3% of that is man made? Sorry, but there is so much data out there that I think it would take a team of researchers just to sift through it, find the sources, evaluate their methodology, and then interpret the results, so I'm just asking about the skeptical data that stuck in my head.
- Jomichael Porter
The climate has been changing for much longer than humans have been here. Greenhouse effect from CO2 is self limiting. The solar cycle has a vaslty greater effect on climate than all human activity. Climate change is a politically motivated scam.
- Robert Hafer
I do have a friend who believes GW is a hoax intended to extend governmental control over industry and spread Socialism further throughout the world. I think the founder of the Weather Channel is in this camp.
- Jomichael Porter
What I am interested in is, given that we accept the evidence says global warming is real, what is the science saying about the best way to stop it? What is the evidence that decreasing CO2 emissions will stop the process?
- Tom Scrace
I would have called leo, but I felt my opinions/feelings were adequately represented on air
- Gabe
1PM EST. Chat with Leonard Mlodinow Author of The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives http://twisbookclub.ning.com
- Gabe
I find it interesting that we are obsessed over global warming, supposedly for the sake of our children, but at the same time, we don't give a darn about how much debt we are saddling our children with.
- Stephen M. Otto
Dr. John Christy gave an excellent talk on the subject at the recent SPE GPEC conference. http://tinyurl.com/o9embg to download the pdf of his presentation. Executive Summary: man's warmed up the earth a little but all the models are way off and we're not as warm as we have been in the past.
- Grendel Khan
I didn't hear the episode, but if you think climate change is a myth or not import enough to address then you are an idiot.
- Wo
Wo, if you think cap and trade policy is going to have any effect on our planetary climate, I'm afraid you are in the same category.
- Stephen M. Otto
Only heard part of the show. Science has always had the burden of the State due to funding. Call carbon credits a new business model by political means not by science. I like the show.
- Dutch [aka fairuse]
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Are you dating one of these girls Anthony?
- Matthew DeVries
3rd pic - blown away!
- vijay
@matthew: that's confidential. ;) @vijay: yep, I love that pic of Naomi!
- Anthony Citrano
Just not right..... sigh
- Brad Nickel
I love the way the website is done. Brilliant!
- Mark Philpot
Great stories: "16 Great Twitter Moments" - http://mashable.com/2008...
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Twitter is kinda of like a Seinfeld episode, only not as funny.... Everyone is talking all at the same time and no one is listening
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what, what was that you said bindu ;)
- mike "glemak" dunn
Exactly - its a show about nothing.
- jcunwired
But searchable and with RSS feeds --- if only Seinfeld were that good. #soupnazi
- Mike Reynolds
Except that many are listening all the time
- Deepak Singh
Yes, I do think there is some listening going on but I think it is far less than on other networks like FF and Facebook. One thing though I am amazed at how much content is RTed
- Bindu Reddy
Yeah, it's a different kind of communication. It's like a crowded room where everyone gets to talk at once; you aren't necessarily going to get a response, but there's no reason to be afraid to speak up. Deepak hits the nail on the head -- just because you don't get a response doesn't mean that nobody has read your tweets.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
The question then becomes. What are you listening to on Twitter? This is the true power of Twitter search. I've put a couple into my RSS reader so I can watch a couple topics instead of a feed of people. Topics that I'm interested in that are similar to those I would subscribe to a mailing list for and I will often reply to questions on those topics. Unfortunately, this process isn't...
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- Kevin Kuphal
Part of it is because most Twitter conversations lack context -- the ability to have a multi-Tweet conversation is inversely purportionate to the number of friends/followers you and the other person have. Conversations on FF get more replies because they're threaded.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
Kevin, I'm piping hundreds of Twitter searches into Google Reader.
- Mike Reynolds
kevin, I have tried listening to topics... A lot of trending topics have a lot of "spam" people who know they will show up whenever someone searches for them. Also the generic terms are a nightmare to follow
- Bindu Reddy
Twitter Search is extremely critical to my work and one of the best sources of information. Instant feedback on market changes, product releases, etc. Honestly, I've never had problem with spam or noise, but that's probably because my areas of interest are very focussed.
- Deepak Singh
Deepak your searches are prob. all life-science related? That is most likely the reason it is not spammed and it is pretty useful. Recently I was checking out the search for Swine Flu and I am not sure it is all that useful
- Bindu Reddy
You mean \/1AGR/\ and C1AL|5 aren't swine flu vaccines?
- Jim Norris
Actually they are not. Most are related to my day job at AWS (only one life science related search). I agree that something like Swine Flu won't be useful, cause it doesn't have your circle of trust filter. But try following on a Google product launch. It's fascinating and tremendously useful
- Deepak Singh
Classic
- Charlie Anzman
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http://twitpic.com/482qg - I need to hang this in the hallway with a sign: 'In case of Gamerscore emergency break glass'
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Yep, the level of difficulty to gain GS in this game is legendary :)
- Hubert Taler
If you're going to quit your job. This is a great way to sign off: http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
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My princess is in another castle, heh
- Hubert Taler
Stephen Wolfram discusses Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine http://%20http:/...
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I've just read about WolframAlpha today. It can be very cool to try it out when it's out in May.
- Hubert Taler
FriendFeed cooler than Twitter (duh) http://jessenewhart.com/twitter...
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You know how you meet someone smart and you don't know what they did? Discover what I learned about this guy: - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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I went home and Google'd him and learned he co-discovered the Ebola virus. Some people, when you meet them, you just know they are smart. They exude smartness. They make you feel humble without even saying a single word. I felt that around Peter Piot, I shot his badge, not to remember his face but so I would remember his name to do some research on later. I was blown away. This is the problem with Davos. You get thrust into a room with 50 interesting people and you have no idea what makes them interesting. I wish I had known more about Peter before I had met him, but there is something interesting about the serendipity of meeting someone new. Some of the most interesting people I've met have been people I've met out of the blue. How about you?
- Robert Scoble
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Interestingly enough I have dozens of experiences like this every week, without going to Davos. Especially in airplanes, because there you're forced to sit next to someone. I still remember the day I was sitting next to the CEO of REI. I've met interesting school teachers and plumbers and IT managers and tons of other people that way. Another day I met Larry Tesler, former Apple exec. Have you ever met someone who surprised you?
- Robert Scoble
It's one of my driving wishes, being able to work with and interact with smart people. And I will agree with you that the most interesting people you meet by chance - but perhaps in part it is because we would be less intrigued by the people we set out to meet, having been more prepared for them? I envy you your chance to meet and talk with people like this in Davos, make the most of it else we'll all pounce on you ;)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Joelle: I try, but the problem is that at Davos (and all conferences, really) you meet people like Peter and you know they did something interesting with their lives but you have no idea what it is. Because you only get fleeting moments with people at conferences by the time you figure it out they usually are gone. Now the hard work begins where we try to get a second chance and an interview! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Incidentally that is perhaps one of the reasons I dont have an mp3 player and have the (very swiss/german) tendency to not sit alone at meals even when I am alone - to not isolate myself from meeting people. People are just about the most fascinating thing on earth! Even on the train / tube / plane or while waiting for something. I have learned about everything from preserving the pink...
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
But Robert others must say that about you? :)
- Tina Clarke
Tina: oh, that's true.
- Robert Scoble
I met my future wife in the badly-signposted grounds of Villa Borghese - she had a map, and I needed to know where the heck the villa itself was. I had two words of Italian, she had two words of English, and the gallery was closed for the day, so we went off for a walk instead.
- Sean
By the way, I uploaded dozens of photos from Davos of people. All of whom can be found on Google. That too is something very cool that has developed in the past few years: the fact that we can learn a ton about nearly everyone. I didn't find a single person I couldn't find something about on Google.
- Robert Scoble
What if you were initially impressed with someone you met in person but couldn't find anything about them via Google?
- Mattb4rd
How far away are we from an app that will take the photo input (picture of someone's name badge) and automatically (within a minute) return information on them - bio, sites, etc
- Wayne Schulz
Mattb4rd: then I would start wondering. I would probably pull up their business card and call them and say "why can't I find anything about you on Google?" That probably would lead to an interesting conversation.
- Robert Scoble
Wow you're up early :)
- Mattb4rd
Wayne: not far at all. Evernote already does some of that. Conference presenters could include info in a QR code on the badge that could be used with a cell phone.
- Robert Scoble
I got the same feeling when I met the CEO of Parallels last year at WHD'08. There are quite some amazing people out there are ar not showcased enough. Most of them just like their privacy and are not "hungry for PR"
- Lorand R. Minyo
I was fortunate enough to have David Soul (Hutch! of the show Starsky & Hutch from the 1970's) sit next to me at an education conference in LA around 1985.... that was an amazing day! He was very friendly and did not mind me gushing over his career (I was only a teen and really loved his work). He was homeschooling his kids! I was new to the process as was he... we shared lots of feedback / ideas...very cool. I was able to share my experience as a student; and he as the parent / teacher
- Susan Beebe
If you want to find very interesting people right in your own town, head over to your local nursing home. You'll be amazed at what you'll learn and you'll feel good for doing it. You never know who you might meet and they'll be there next week if you want to go back to interview them. No need to travel around the world to find interesting people. You'll find amazing people in nursing homes who've essentially been written off by society. Seriously, try it!
- Scott Maentz
I had breakfast at a conference a couple of years back with Professor Urban Ungerstedt, a Nobel Prize committee member, who I later found out had invented an incredible medical procedure called cerebral microdialysis. Weird thing is he sought me out for some advice on one of my specialist subjects which is surely one mark of a smart person.
- Nicola Quinn
I wouldn't know where to begin, I meet interesting people all the time
- paul mooney
Really liked what you said Robert...
- Didier Lahely
Imagine if his badge had had a mobile barcode on it - the QR you mention, perhaps - which you could have snapped on your mobile device, and got profile info about him right away. No need for Googling for basic info, you would have already had that. That could have influenced what you did there and then, before you got home. Not a common standard yet, though.
- Neville Hobson
+1 for Neville's comment
- Andrew Terry
When I first started Following you on Twitter...I had NO idea who you were in the SM world..One day I addressed some comment to you...You replied to me..."Please email your comments to me so I can ignore you there just as easily as I ignore you on Twitter." Being new to Twitter, I was taken a back and my feelings were hurt. SO I Googled you. I still Followed you because I felt you had a...
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- SashaKane
The modest few, Robert.
- mandyvan
ROTFLMAO as they say: "Please email your comments to me so I can ignore you there just as easily as I ignore you on Twitter."
- Nick in Manila
SashaKane: sorry about that. I was having a bad day or something. I just wanted to get you to be public with me instead of private. I'd rather live my life completely in public, as much as possible. I really hate DMs, by the way, even though I've given up that particular fight and now try to answer them.
- Robert Scoble
That was the best part of working as a research chemist, the intelligent, motivated people I got to work with. Unfortunatly, the corperate culture and I didn't get along; and government backed research is a mind-numbing waste of time.
- Robert Hafer
Being in the music industry most of mine are "rockstars". After getting treated like crap by the band Tool (before they were really famous), me and my camera crew tucked our collective tail between our legs and started home. We stopped by a little gas station to fill up and another long haired guy was filling up too. I just started talking it up with him because I find people interesting. Turned out he was the drummer for Pearl Jam. We did an interview and previewed VS before it was mixed!
- MarkCarras
Robert, talking of virus experts, Prof Vincent Rancaniello who has done a lot of work on the polio virus is on FF - he joined the Life Science room FTW http://friendfeed.com/profvrr
- Sally Church
Sally: wow.
- Robert Scoble
It's funny when he liked an item in there http://friendfeed.com/e... I was thinking, "the name's familiar" and was Googling it then Maureen chipped in and I was like 'wow' too, it's a small world on the internets.
- Sally Church
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More of an addiction than a cult ;-)
- Stuart Miniman
Anyone else notice that http://www.techmeme.com/ has really stepped up its game lately? Here's some notes:
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1. The choices of news on the page are much better lately.
- Robert Scoble
2. I thought with new competitors like http://www.techfuga.com and http://www.alltop.com that TechMeme would lose its luster, but I think it answered the challenge pretty effectively.
- Robert Scoble
I think it's worse personally. Using that new Twitter stuff, I twittered a story I wrote to them and yet they posted a story based on mine as the main page and based from a Tweet that was after the one I sent in. Stupidness.
- Tom Warren
3. They've managed to remain relevant.
- Bryce Roney
3. I assumed that friendfeed would become a much better place to find and discuss news, but it has gone down in quality as more people have shown up while Techmeme has gone up in quality and now, with the addition of Twitter tips (you can send a tip to Techmeme by Tweeting "tip @techmeme" to start your message) it is taking advantage of the news flow that's happening on the social networks, too.
- Robert Scoble
Tom: oh, yeah, I hate that stuff too. Especially when I spend thousands of dollars to fly across the world to actually BE at a press conference and I get scooped by someone who stayed home because they have better connectivity and got released from their embargo a few minutes before I did (and because Techmeme's algorithms weight past success.
- Robert Scoble
News reporting is dead anyway. Look at Techmeme right now. A Google press release is there. What value does any news reporting have over that? Not much. That's why I'm focusing more on interviews and getting behind the scenes.
- Robert Scoble
Robert - Thanks for the tip @techmeme twitter submission process... very cool idea!
- Susan Beebe
Susan: what's even cooler is that you can search for @techmeme on http://search.twitter.com so you can see potential "hot" stories as they get submitted.
- Robert Scoble
4. Techmeme has a wider range of sources and picks better news than Google News or other tech news aggregators.
- Robert Scoble
News reporting is dead? Maybe in the tech industry, but I wouldn't say that with general information (anyway, this belongs to another thread, I think). Techmeme has certainly improved: in my case it has become my main source of information, surpassing other blogs/portals that used to provide that kind of information. Up to the point that I have unsuscribed to most of them.
- Jordi Soler
Robert - ooo that is cool indeed! I am using twitter search (summize engine) a LOT lately.. amazing view of news in near REAL TIME! Techmeme is wise to utilize this more and more. They could gleen data right out of it - would require some intersting logic, but I see a model for news / buzz measurement
- Susan Beebe
Still too many Tabloid stories on Techmeme
- paul mooney
Jordi: well, corporate news reporting. Regular news reporting, though, is also going through major shifts. A guy like me who doesn't sleep and has four screens watching Twitter and friendfeed can aggregate and break news faster than the New York Times can.
- Robert Scoble
paul: that only happens on slow news days and is happening less and less as time goes on.
- Robert Scoble
Yes, indeed. But there has to be an original source: if you talk about a Google press release, I agree with you. But not if we're talking about a first-person chronicle of a war, for instance.
- Jordi Soler
All the Techcrunch vs Europe crap made it to the Top of Techmeme several times and all that time Arrington had Lacy in the wings
- paul mooney
The @techmeme twitter search which Scoble might actually be a really cool idea for news on twitter. I got fed up with the news from the Twitter bots, and will welcome twitter meme news.
- Peter Efland
Robert - you've out done me... no sleep here either, but only 3 screens Gah! :)
- Susan Beebe
Paul: and that happened during a very slow news week. That also was five weeks ago and I've noticed improvements since then.
- Robert Scoble
The Man Killed by Cellphone story is still there from yesterday
- paul mooney
Paul: hmmm, I don't see that. And even if it's there there's something like 30 stories on the home page now. Not many are tabloidish.
- Robert Scoble
The question is when it comes memetrackers for more topics. It would be really nice to have more mainstream topics like "Sports" etc but also for niche ones, like "Google", "Science" etc
- Anton Johansson
Look on the bottom right - Man Killed by Exploding Mobile Phone
- paul mooney
Let's face it Techmeme has gone downhill with so many misery meme stories and Arrington's sad life casting
- paul mooney
I agree robert. Techmeme's decison to take in request via Twitter is really paying dividends it seems!
- Sampad Swain
I might be the only one but I never "got" techmeme but I also didn't jump on the digg bandwagon.
- Jason Williams
I get techmeme RSS feeds - and skip over them... it got too corporationy and too mainstream...
- andy brudtkuhl
I wish there was a TechMeme version that only ranks news from individuals. @gaberiviera are you listening? I bet there is a big crowd interested in stuff written by individuals instead of networks. It shouldn't replace the current TechMeme, it would be a nice addition to the portfolio though
- Alexander van Elsas
I never liked the layout of the site. Also I get the feed through Viigo on my blackberry but never read it because it takes too many clicks to read.
- Jason Williams
@stevegillmor Friendfeed without Twitter is useless. The converse is not true. http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009... #powerbaby
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true today but not necessarily tomorrow. Used to say the same thing about Windows
- Steve Gillmor
steveGillmor I feel the same way. What would make twitter become the ghosttown it deserves to be? Would it be the adoption of Friendfeed as the better front end of the twitter-like network, both simple enough for mobile and primitive messaging as well as the advanced multi-streamed art projects that some of us broadcast as we push our different mediums out there in order to continue our thoughts in words, images and the evidence of fingerprints.
- Aron Michalski
from IM
don't agree twitter deserves to fail. we deserve a better user contract, and FF will help us get there. there is no one winner here.
- Steve Gillmor
since I post through FriendFeed I know longer give them my data to lock up.
- Steve Gillmor
then twitter has to stop acting like they are running a bush era service corporation, realize that their users are not the enemy, embrace their partners as potential problem solvers rather than data leaches. If they are trying to build the next great network of communication, they need to allow the communication to be 2 way, not only for us but with us.
- Aron Michalski
from IM
I think you are wrong on this one Hugh. I have lived twitter since early 2007 and FF over the last 4 months. FF feels comfortable. I admit it takes a while but once you are there .. well you won't go back.
- Bankwatch
this isn't woodstock aron or altamont either. twitter is what twitter does. part of what's working better and better.
- Steve Gillmor
I feel as if any input we have to offer is either ignored or avoided, that when we tried to understand how the network was growing we were rewarded with silence and a withdrawl of service. The other communication companies have listened, tried and responded to the users, learning and growing, as well as coming a little closer to building the perfect beast.
- Aron Michalski
from IM
don't buy that karoli. Twitter processes my data slower but reaches a broader network. they're not locking up my data, just those who use it exclusively.
- Steve Gillmor
aron some others have been more transparent, but are playing catchup. what counts is the aggregate space, not the individual strategies. think email
- Steve Gillmor
i'm just tired of the unapologetic bullies in my life and twitter has been acting like one, that's all. If that's their role and it's ok, fine. They have a broader reach but they still don't want is to sample the base in real time. Twitter has done things that if they were providing different services, we'd all have fired them. But they are the only game in town, in the sense that the base makes the network more powerful and the world sees brand like kleenex and q-tips.
- Aron Michalski
from IM
they don't control what they don't have. I am posting my data in multiple platforms, only one of which is twitter. I use twitter for what they provide, and build for the future so that they don't hold the cards. data potability begins at home
- Steve Gillmor
Aron: "Unapologetic bullies" is a bit strong, no?
- Michael Krigsman
don't buy it aron. they are far from the only game in town. they have their own twitter to look for over their shoulder
- Steve Gillmor
so for that arguement to be powerful someone else has to rise up and show them that their silo doesn't work for us, that even as we mirror our data all over in different servers, that good old fashion competition would make it important for them to respect and provide value for their users, rather than just taking it and selling it to trusted partners.
- Aron Michalski
from IM
I know we've given our data to them and now we're mirroring it all over but what value are they offering us to stay and grow?
- Aron Michalski
from IM
4am EST wake up soon come. Thanks for helping me work this out.
- Aron Michalski
from IM
listen to Bret taylor for some of the right answers to your questions
- Steve Gillmor
I am sorry, Twitter is EPIC FAIL. Twitter bans me because of my political views! How more pathetic a service can be?
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
NewsGang Live, you can listen inline here on my stream
- Steve Gillmor
FriendFeed is also a Twitter. But Twitter is not also a FriendFeed. If I could only use one it would be friendfeed. In fact, my friendfeed use continues to increase while my twitter use decreases.
- Gregg H.
Steve, what's the primary difference in opinion of yours regarding FriendFeed today vs. say 6 months ago?
- Thomas Hawk
I don't agree that FriendFeed is useless without Twitter. Twitter could go away and I'd be perfectly happy with FF. Everything I like about Twitter FriendFeed does better. I'm sure there are things that Twitter does better than FriendFeed but those things aren't important to me.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Thomas Hawk the difference is realtime tools and extensible APIs. The road to track and, as Dave Winer says, peering micromessaging
- Steve Gillmor
I love you guys... all this nerdy social API speak is mind numbingly cool! :)
- Susan Beebe
What I do not like about Twitter is that conversations are interruptive. Unless you have a continuum in the thought process you get Twilight Zone!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
no. neither is useless without the other, twitter is not that important to the world.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
it's also a little annoying how conversations about items tend to stay on friendfeed instead of happening on twitter, though that is really more of a problem for other sites friendfeed ties into, like Flickr. If a flickr upload appeared on friendfeed, the conversation happens in friendfeed, instead of on flickr. Steve's "re:" links are somewhat of a solution but they still link back to friendfeed. I'd rather have someone see one of my Flickr pics ON Flickr, where they might find other things i've uploaded.
- nick
from twhirl
Twitter management is an Achilles' heel of Twitter success. They want to be celebrities. But what they should be is developers.
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
I totally disagree. Friendfeed without Twitter is more useful than without it. Since I've hidden most Twitter posts, the relevancy of posts that I do see is much much higher.
- Alex Scoble
Also people on Friend Feed are into having a real conversation not just Spamming and promoting their PR like on Twitter. FF Wins!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Maybe I am anomaly, but I have more ff followers than twitter. And most of the new people I follow on twitter came from ff. I just use twitter as a dm back channel, which I must say is inefficient. I have never got FF im working.
- Oldengrey (Jay)
This statement makes absolutely no sense unless you are the average Twitterholic and forgot to take off your Twitter goggles. When FF first started picking up, the FIRST thing everyone did was hide Twitter items. These days, things have changed, but that basically illustrates the fact that Twitter is just one of the many services FriendFeed supports.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I have more FF followers then Twitter followers. 90% of my tweets come from FF. FF was useful before I signed up for Twittet.
- Roberto Bonini
Agree with Rahsheen. Twitter was first. It is not best. Nor is it or should it be considered essential to the world of social networks. It is lovely in its simplicity; I love using it. However, I do not love the attitude they take toward my participation and utter disregard for me as a customer. Which I was more than willing to be. A paying customer.
- Karoli
+1 Karoli
- Dave Martin
@karoli actually Jaiku was first before Twitter, jaiku was much more like Friendfeed too.
- Christian Burns
@christianburns jaiku may have been technically first, but it never got the kind of traction that twitter got right off the bat. i am a jaiku user and I understand why that is. it's not as simple to use/understand.
- Karoli
@karoli Twitter took a rather long time to gain that traction.
- Christian Burns
Huffington and Sandberg: Davos power women - http://ourdoings.com/roberts...
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Last night was pretty incredible. Midnight to 1 am Mike Arrington, my wife, and I hung out with Arianna Huffington, founder of Huffington Post and Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook. Inspiring and powerful women. Talked about management styles and leadership. These two are some of the only bright parts of Davos this year.
- Robert Scoble
Huffington is probably the eekiest individual on the surface of this planet I can possibly recall. Have an urge to long for that red button when I see her appear anywhere. She comes nowhere near the culture I like about social networking and 2.0 . I think it is time to move on from celebrity worshipping and get down to some real issues. If these people were all that bright, we would not be in the kind of mess we are in today.
- Mark Jacobs
Mark: neither of these two people had anything to do with our current financial crisis.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I do agree, and I apologize for being elliptic here. My general criticism is about the WEF, and people who now appear there, just sometimes apparently talking the opposite of what they did and said 3 years ago. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is a good example of that. I do wish to point out of course that neither of the two ladies above mentioned bear any responsibility whatsoever for the economic crisis.
- Mark Jacobs
I think it courageous of Arianna to be a lightning rod for this sort of resentment. Her celebrity is certainly more justified than Karl Rove, whose grand schemes have managed to decimate the Republican Party yet is adored by the right.
- Phil Boiarski
No, they just steal content from other sites and then say they should be proud to have it linked at Huff and should build a relationship with the Huff editors. http://blog.wired.com/busines...
- Chris Mayer
@ Chris. Sounds like someone has a grudge. I don't know; everywhere I look people are linking and posting other people's content. They have a point about traffic. There are a million voices but only a few places get tons of traffic. Wired links to other content, doesn't it? You're posting this link, is that stealing?
- Phil Boiarski
I don't have a grudge, as I have no content for them to take. As stated in the Wired post: "But none of those aggregation sites, including Google News, uses as much of a percentage of copyrighted content as The Huffington Post does." We can argue about what % constitutes too much, but clearly there are a lot of content creators who feel that HuffPo goes too far. If I get all I want to know from their large excerpt, then HuffPo gets the ad revenue and the content creator never sees the visit or a dime.
- Chris Mayer
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Christiane Amanpour interviews Gordon Brown - http://ourdoings.com/roberts...
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Sitting in this session now. I talked with Amanpour last night and she told me she will ask him for answers.
- Robert Scoble
Finally someone spoke up for small businesses here.
- Robert Scoble
Damn. He spoke up for change. Decried the current system. Finally!
- Robert Scoble
Gordon Brown "speaks" about a lot of things, Robert. Sadly, his actions don't often reflect his words.
- Andrew Terry
Shame about the focus in that photo! Andrew Terry is right: what @scobleizer might not know is that it was, in fact, Gordon Brown who built much of the system which failed in the UK, including changing the definition of inflation to count house price rises as "growth" not inflation, keeping interest rates artificially low to build a credit bubble alongside his own vast deficits. Hence what can only be described as an outright collapse in Britain's currency against the Euro and USD.
- James
Sterling normally does badly when economic times are uncertain as it doesn't have the same reserve currency status as the dollar, euro or yen. Brown on the other hand is an idiot who oversaw ten years expansion of the public sector (some needed but much not) funded by an ever growing deficit and a tax system them becomes more complex and greedy.
- Andy Davies
I like Brown less every day. He seems more and more like someone who cares more about being right than doing right. A step backwards from Blair, frankly.
- Todd Brunner
from twhirl
gordons an ass and a liar @ andy davies is right, he oversaw the build up of the current mess in the Uk atleast,
- atul abraham
from twhirl
I was watching this as it was taking place. :-)
- Richard A.
and I'm sure it's Browns fault that nearly every 1st world country is going through a recession too eh? Gimme a break...
- Zee.
Brown spoke well today, sounds confident in what he says. He's done the research, has the intellectual background. No point scare mongering.
- Richard A.
@Zee, i think you missed angela merckls address y day, US&UK policies are what the current mess is all about
- atul abraham
from twhirl
@Zee - the problem for Brown is that he kept telling us (the UK electorate) that he was the Chancellor who had rid the country of the scourge of "boom & bust" economics. He could increase public spending because, on his watch, the economy was strong enough to support it and would be for years to come. Let the good times roll. Now, as PM, he expects us to believe that he didn't see the financial crisis coming? Pur-leeze. He can't have it both ways.
- Andrew Terry
Robert -- I am enjoying your Davos reports.
- Sean McBride
@Zee: He contributed more than most - and if he's blameless, why do both the EU and IMF assess the UK as being the MOST vulnerable of Western economies? Yes, Richard, he sounds confident - the problem is, he sounded just as confident in previous years when he bragged about how wonderful he was for having prevented the present situation from happening! He dumped Britain's gold reserves at record low prices, jacked up a credit bubble and hid inflation - yes, he bears a lot of blame.
- James
Comments are getting blah...blah...blah, mirroring the New York Times, in that every major (& minor) country in the world right now is hitting the skids. The hoi polloi universally blames government leadership. Rather it is a 9/11 act of a small group -- in this case, unethical businessmen -- leveraging in accumulation over time, a domino lineup of epic proportions. In turn, way beyond the power of leaders or governments to fix overnight.
- Douglas Hopkins
@Douglas - sure there were and are unethical businessmen involved - but people have been warning of this for some time and leaders and governments were not listening. Doesn't that make them somewhat responsible?
- Robin Barooah
Robin -- government leaders and politicians tend to be owned lock, stock and barrel by a small club of billionaires at the top of the financial/power pyramid. (Douglas Hopkins nailed it.)
- Sean McBride
Amanpour is one of the few good ones left, I've followed her for years on the BBC
- randulo
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- Daniel E. Renfer
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- Jeff
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- Carlos Granier-Phelps
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- thepete
Now it's saying the maximum number of files to upload at one time is 1000. They *might* try putting these limits someplace easy to spot since other file-sharing services don't have such limits. What's next? "One of your files contains too many characters. Maximum number of characters in file names allowed is 8." I can't WAIT for that one.
- thepete
Wow--well, no wonder it saw 1000 files--it's taking all of those stupid hidden ".files" OSX dumps in every damn directory--which is funny when it only lets you remove them from the upload list after you select the directory. Thanks to OSX's lameness of not letting you see the ".files" in the selection window, you can't not select them. Not super practical.
- thepete
Does Bill Gates read friendfeed? He just told me thanks for the nice comments I made about his annual letter there.
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ooh.. Bill is around us =) watch out
- Qbat
Will we see a comment from Bill?
- paul mooney
Yeah! well, i think he's got plenty of time now
- Constantine
It'd be awesome if we do see a comment from him.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
i think he needs to do it to stay connected and to see what's going on.
- Sascha Pallenberg
well why not? would you expect him not to? or anyway, someone that briefs him
- sofiagk
we won't see his comment, because anybody seems to know his account; that clearly means he's not going to use FF as a main [and public] tool of communication. Why should he burn his hidden identity here - if he really have one? -- Anyway I just think his press office has done a good job, telling him what Robert wrote here.
- Markingegno - Donato
Markingegno: knowing Bill I seriously doubt it was the press office. The dude does use all social networks.
- Robert Scoble
Ironically, Bill Gates could pop in here and say "Hi, I'm Bill Gates" and no-one would believe it now...
- Warren
*waves at Bill* There are few people who could change this from ScobleFeed, and he's one of 'em. Heaven help me if Jobs has a covert FF account, I'd be using the hide button like a mad woman.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Maybe he's stalking you, Robert. Or maybe he has a mancrush ;)
- Ron's Home And Hardware
But is he on Twitter? ...Sorry, had to drop that in here. :)
- phil baumann
@Robert - I believe you about his attitude towards social networks, but still think he doesn't want to pop in. I'd be glad to discover I'm wrong ;)
- Markingegno - Donato
Markingegno: he won't participate because he gets too many requests. He was on Facebook for a while and deleted his account.
- Robert Scoble
Hi Bill! i think your a kool guy. (now call me and say thanks) lol - @robert whats his twitter?
- Chris Clayton
He probably reads it for the same reason many of us to to stay up to date and in touch
- Rob Cairns
If he does, his personal stock just went way up in my book!
- Aaron Strout
HE is watching us :-|
- ◄ani625Ξ
I hope so, he owes me a computer!
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Which reinforces the point that the readers/lurkers are often more important than the participants (or more precisely shouldn't be discounted and can surprise you considerably)
- Shannon Clark
Hi Bill. If you're reading this. Please come back to Microsoft. We miss you
- Marcus Beagley
If you're reading this Bill, I'm writing you from Nigeria and need help getting my money...
- Kevin Leroux
Everyone listens in on your conversations Robert; have you heard from the pope? : )
- Mark Harai
what happened was that Bill did a Live search for entries/critiques/analysis of the report and nothing came up...then he ran the same search on Google. First hit = FriendFeed..
- Carlos Ayala
ok, now I can tell you, my real name is Bill: http://is.gd/hO6f :)
- Markingegno - Donato
Maybe somebody who knows him uses FF and told him about the comments.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
awesome!
- Davide D'Incau
that's eerie yet cool...
- Anthony Farrior
Hey Bill. Loved you in Stargate!
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
That is cool, Robert. And I thought the annual letter was interesting and very well written. I'd love to work for the Gates Foundation.
- asiriusgeek
Would Bill even use his real name?? ( apologies in advance to Bill if he does read this)???
- Roberto Bonini
Like it or not, a message like that is EXACTLY why Scoble is such an influencer on here and other places. How many people could say that Bill Gates had personally thanked them for a comment they made about him while arsing about on social networks and you know straight away that it's true.
- Philip Tomlinson
I'm sure he has a "listening strategy" like a google alert on his own name - or maybe he creates specific alerts for his name plus a keyword for a specific event/topic.
- Laura Norvig
YAY!! I hope Bill does check out and participate in FriendFeed. Perhaps he saw it on your blog. You mention FF quite a bit there too
- Susan Beebe
Gates=authority
- Wallace
OMG! Wait, and you're sure you didn't post those comments anywhere else but here? Nice!
- Sarah Perez
Bill is a nerd, why wouldn't he read and do all the other stuff other nerds do? That and in between meeting with heads of state and playing WoW on a real set :-)
- Todd Hoff
Wouldn't a system like Twitter, FriendFeed be better for someone like Gates? Even if 1,000,000 people follow him, he's not obligated to follow back, and people wouldn't be offended by this, there would be respect of his privacy. Whereas on Facebook, he would be inundated with requests for various apps...
- Mike Nayyar
Now I have to say more nice things about Microsoft. :)
- Paul Buchheit
It would be cool if Bill Gates was a lurker here, but all I can say is that he better get along with Derrick. Otherwise there will be all kinds of drama! :-) and just in case...Mr. Gates, longtime customer, first time commenter. Just keep on doing what you feel you should be doing. It's worked for you thus far. You is, be da man. So if no broke, no fixin.... nuff sed
- Morgan Haley
Paul, I'll give you one: Microsoft is all about innovation. When it comes to innovative software companies, nobody's bought more of them than Microsoft.
- Bruce Lewis
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moive: Dead Man on Campus - "Bill Gates wants my brain" --- i just had too, one movie quote i always think about when i hear his name!
- shayne catrett
Bill wants his annual letter ritual to eventually rise to Warren Buffett level, so guess it's not surprising he's blowing kisses your way Robert. Or he just plain misses you.
- mark ivey
Full on lurker or might he have an alias account?
- AJ Kohn
Wouldn't Bill Gates employ someone to manage his social networking accounts? Or is the risk of mis-communication too great?
- Bill Romanos
If Bill went on Twitter I am sure he would get a gazillion followers... Though Jobs would probably get a gazillion+1
- Peter Efland
BIG microsoft fan...Until I gotta macintosh that is.
- Zee.
i'm sure someone e-mails him a daily ego-blast of all such things said throughout the Web.
- Andy Sternberg
He has people read it for him, of course.
- Monica Bower
Why do people assume he has people looking at Friendfeed and Twitter for him? Bill might like to read Twitter and FriendFeed feeds.
- Nicholas James
first even before google: omniscient/omnipresent would be the Gates himself ~ he's watching....
- sofarsoShawn
Maybe this is really Bill: http://friendfeed.com/bob
- April Russo (app103)
I bet he's pleased as punch about all the positive feedback on Win7, and should be. It's the best OS since Win95 came out.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Bill needs to grab this username quick@ http://friendfeed.com/billgat... ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Time to out myself, I'm actually Bill Gates. I've been watching you all.
- jjprojects
jjprojects - LOL ... so Bill is running earthhour now too?! :)
- Susan Beebe
tell him the credit check passed & yes, he can borrow some money, just wanted to make sure, you know financial crisis & alll...
- sofarsoShawn
Wouldn't it be funny if Steve Jobs was here with an outrageous avatar?
- Phil Boiarski
There could be a private room for tech CEO's, except Jerry Yang, of course
- Roberto Bonini
@Jason, You have a camera on his office?
- Phil Boiarski
لایک برای بیل عزیز. به فارسی نوشتم که نفهمین. هه هه
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