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Seriously people...gaming and laptop don't even spend time in the same zipcode...they are arch enemies. Never was this more apparent than at the Intel truck at PAX 2008. They had "gaming" laptops and desktops from Alienware side by side running Crysis and it wasn't even funny the difference. So to recap, gaming and laptop hate each other.
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They'd seriously nuke each other's home towns if they had the means to do so.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Agreed.
- Mo Kargas
I have an Xbox 360 for gaming
- Jesse Stay
Well said
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
from IM
I finished Portal and most of Half Life 2 on a Toshiba laptop which is now so very close to dead. Can't say I'm ever going to get another "gaming-capable" laptop ever again. Besides being overpriced, they are good for exactly the year you buy it, then are completely outdated.
- Adrian
Gaming on the desktop is much more enjoyable for sure, but it's pretty nice to be able to play something like WoW on a netbook while on the go.
- Rodfather
How does WoW run on the little guy? Anika only plays like puzzle type games... won't let me install any real games. :D
- Adrian
I'm with Rod. laptops will never replace desktops for games but they can be a pretty convenient backup.
- Joe "Looptid" Pierce
Depends on the game. Skyrates at 10fps on the netbook is kinda amusing.
- Morton Fox
WoW runs surprisingly well on a netbook. It slows down when there's a lot of content around, but it's still doable.
- Rodfather
It's also not going to make a difference if all you play are small casual games. Games like Plants vs Zombies, Peggle, Puzzle Quest, Braid, etc. all work well on low spec'd machines. They are all great games too.
- Rodfather
discrete graphics card
- Michael W. May
The ATI 5870 looks so tempting.
- Rodfather
External graphics accelerators?
- Adrian
from Android
I don't think those exist. The ATI I mentioned is the latest, greatest card.
- Rodfather
I meant as a possible way to provide laptops additional graphics horsepower. In the near future that is.
- Adrian
"Dude, it's a Katamari game. Of course you're going to buy it. Why even read the reviews?" <~ my wife :) http://www.amazon.com/Katamar...
Mark Trapp, Josh Bancroft and Greg Grothaus liked this
The question is: Do I buy a PS3 just to play it?
- Steve and 3 other people
Joint CAD Incident Tracking System - http://208.71.205.35/PITS/
Joe Perrin and Josh Bancroft liked this
This is very sweet - I found it last night trying to figure out what all the police action in the area was (they were down last night, so no dice). You can get updates on EMS/fire calls from their Twitter account: @WashCo_FireMed. We need more hyperlocal mashups like this! :-)
- Josh Bancroft
from iPhone
Hey Josh, a buddy and I run the @pdxalerts account on twitter. We post police and fire incidents in the Portland Metro Area. Check it out: http://www.twitter.com/pdxaler... Oh, and BTW the @WashCo_FireMed twitter account isn't official. It was created by screen scraping the Joint CAD Incident Tracking System data and outputting it using Twitterfeed.
- Joe Perrin
I run the @WashCo_FireMed Twitter feed. It's actually a custom php script that I run and host, not a screen scrape and Twitterfeed :) I'm looking for more online dispatch systems that I can set this up for.
- Gary
Does anybody Friendfeed anymore?
Penguin, Morton Fox, Josh Bancroft and 2 other people liked this
Ummm. YEAH. Lots of us.
- Lindsay
No. :)
- Morton Fox
Habalutly, That would be an affirmative.
- Brent - Yes I am
When I started using Tweetdeck for twitter I stopped using friendfeed, for the most part. I had been using Twhirl to interact with twitter, friendfeed, and identi.ca, but Tweetdeck replaced Twhirl for me.
- Richard Klein
Instapaper: A $5 App That Justifies Your iPhone Purchase - http://www.reddit.com/r...
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RT @garrytan: Posterous Theming: It's here, it's live, and it's time to make your site yours! http://blog.posterous.com/postero...
Iván Abrego, ciw, Lizunlong and 9 other people liked this
Like like like. Been waiting for this. I have a couple of family WordPress.org blogs I maintain that I want to move to Posterous. For non-geeks, posting by attaching stuff to email is SO much easier than logging into a WP site and writing a post there.
- Josh Bancroft
Anyone know some good tumblr themes that work well with posterous? I tried a couple and they did not work completely.
- BRҰANSAҰS
Josh: Agreed!
- BRҰANSAҰS
Is Yelp first US Augmented Reality app on iPhone thanks to secret feature? Turn it on here: (via http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...)
Ashish, ewing2001akaNicomedy2010, Susan Beebe and 7 other people liked this
Installed it, works awesome!
- Kooleido
Thanks Robert!
- JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
Just tested it in Vancouver BC, and it works here too.
- JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
Do they have one for android?
- Srikanth
I've got Poket Universe, and love it. But it's not a live video overlay, it's just a bitmap of the sky. Which makes a lot of sense when you're out using it in the dark.
- Steve Feinstein
see also TAT augmented ID [etc...] http://ff.im/75zuX
- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
After lots of shaking (and starting to think I'd been hoaxed!) I got it to come on and it works - very cool :)
- David Meredith
from iPhone
New Yelp iPhone app is also out. There's a cool easter egg (Augmented Reality feature). Here's how to do it:
Andy Bakun, Kenn Ejima, Denise Howell and 92 other people liked this
Download the new Yelp app (came out yesterday). So you shake your iPhone 3 times. That activates a feature called Monocle. A message should come up if you activated it. A blue box will come up saying "the Monocle has been activated." It will create a button in the top right corner. Now you should be able to look at the bars, restaurants, etc. Only works on iPhone 3GS.
- Robert Scoble
waiting Robert.... :)
- Sampad Swain
You point it at businesses, or down the city block. I'll try it right now.
- Robert Scoble
Yep! Works. Took a few tries to get it to activate. Some of the places it shows me have been closed for ages though, guess I need to update Yelp for the area.
- Otto
That sounds so cool. Would love to see a video demo of it Robert!
- Alex Calic
I wonder why it's an easter egg. That sounds great.
- Daniel Ha
I just did it. Very cool. I hear this feature was added for me. I really love it!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Daniel: probably to get it through the iPhone store approval process faster.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Raises the question of whether they would have rejected it if they'd known about it. Or did Yelp tell the reviewers about it?
- Jan Dawson
Very, very cool! Just tried it out. There's not a lot on Yelp near by work (kind of an industrial area), but I did get it to find the nearest restaurant. So cool! :-)
- Josh Bancroft
awesome!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
as long as Yelp allows iPhone users to rate on the fly.. previously had to sync first (not smart)
- Sam Levin
can anyone grab me a screenshot of this? i want to write about it
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
I do love beating TechCrunch with news! :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Yes, Mr. Scoble, you beat RWW, TechCrunch, AND Mashable! Damn.
- Ben Parr
I can't get it to work... :(
- Larry Roth
We need a Yelp for Federal, State and Local government services.
- Chris Stevenson
Too bad nobody will ever see it 'cause you mentioned it here and not on your blog ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
I just posted a photo on my friendfeed account.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Installing
- Stephen Pickering
The instructions sound like World of Warcraft.
- Steve Rubel
You android lovers will see that 'Layer' reality browser does the same as Monocle
- Wayne Bentz
Yelp also just launched their Palm Pre app in the Palm app store. No augmented reality that I can find :-(
- Ken Sheppardson
Yelp doesn't seem to have much support for Canadian business according to some reviews
- Alex Knight
Marshall, I just blogged a screenshot. Will be on www.tinyscreenfuls.com as soon as Posterous gets it there.
- Josh Bancroft
Stupid 3GS. You guys think you're so cool. Easter eggs, harumph! *mumble grumble*
- Sarah Lane
Yay it works in Canada too!
- JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
Nice idea but in my case the locations seem to be about 180 degrees off - i.e. showing behind me instead of in front - but may be down to a fuzzy GPS location or something - will have to keep trying
- Jan Dawson
I wonder why it was "secret", ... undocumented API usage or just to create marketing buzz ?
- Kooleido
Kooleido: I hear it was added at last minute.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Damn, nothings happening. I've shaked it :(
- Stephen Pickering
No iPhone 3G love because no compass? Phooey. :P
- Cheryl Jones
Installed It! Works Awesome! Would definitely use it on my next lunch hunt in Downtown
- Kooleido
Got it to work--just took a little more shaking...was worried I was going to put my phone through the ceiling!
- Larry Roth
Kooleido, how'd you get it to work. I've installed and shaken, but nothings happening
- Stephen Pickering
Oh--and very cool
- Larry Roth
Stephen shake in long and hard strokes.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I hate that the iPhone 3G can handle all this new stuff, but Apple insists that you need the 3Gs. Qik on the jailbroken 3G has been awesome!
- Elijah Nicolas
@Elijah Nicolas The 3Gs is for the built in compass that is required for augmented reality to work.
- JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
lol if it was added for you Robert it would show the cutest girls in the area instead
- Sherry Reynolds
Didn't I hear that Apple had an embargo on AR apps til next month?
- Brian O'Connell
Very cool, thanks for the info. It appears you have to be logged into Yelp though the app before the monocle option will appear.
- Patrick Looney
just posted about it http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... good job finding it first Robert!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
1st sentence typo in your post Marshall ;o)
- Alex Calic
Couldn't get it to work by "shaking it" but I got it to work by moving my iPhone up and down 3 times in a vertical motion. Pretty damn cool.
- Doug Rice
Marshall, how do you get that camera view? I can't seem to get mine to work. I've shaken and shaken
- Stephen Pickering
Well, thats slightly cool.
- Sean Oliver
Stephen, you should probably just keep shaking. In publish, with lots of people around. :) No, I don't know. I don't have a 3Gs so I don't have a compass so I don't have the Yelp AR.
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Holy crap. It really works.
- David Sharpe
Unreal... landscape and portrait works.
- Drew Lucas
Check out our Yelp AR layer inside of Layar Reality Browser ... Android. http://www.GoWeb3D.com
- Dave Elchoness
Scoble, I just published on Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009...
- Ben Parr
Doh! mashable wins with the most link-baity headline again.
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Putting up a video on Gear Live.
- Andru Edwards
we have video too :P
- Jennifer Van Grove
@Marshall - We still love you guys, your article's great. :D; @Robert, props. Total props.
- Ben Parr
@Robert thanks it's fun http://bsu.gr/4414782
- briansugar
I made a screenshot here: http://www.flickr.com/photos... It takes a few tries to turn on the option though!
- Daynah
posted about this on Obsessable and my blog. We'll see if Techmeme grabs it and actually puts this FriendFeed thread first, or if they just ignore it until TechCrunch covers it lolz http://www.obsessable.com/news... & http://www.sampletheweb.com/2009...
- C. K. Sample III
ah Marshall got it up first on a notable blog... http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
- C. K. Sample III
I got it to work and man, is it sweet! So smart.
- Leslie Fishlock
Shake the darn thing 3 times :)- they say that break dancin was learnt , robbing hubcaps of a movin car in NYC.. so lets so what the new thing will be by the time th iphone has all the motion sickness activiated apps !!
- Peter Dawson
just got word of a THIRD app with AR live in iTunes store! http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... I'd say it's official: AR apps have come to the iPhone!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
I already had 2.0.2, but I'm downloading 3.0 now. I'm not thinking it's going to work in my office, but we'll see.
- RobinDotNet
Ok, that's really cool. It even works sitting here in my office at home.
- RobinDotNet
Downloading now. I am absolutely fascinated by the idea of augmented reality!
- Victoria Harres
This is pretty cool but the shake 3 times thing doesn't work too well
- Jason Wehmhoener
from iPhone
This is fantastic, just activated Monocle. For those having trouble, its best to move/raise and lower the iPhone 3 times vertically instead of just shaking it. I was shaking mine like a madman until I tried the vertical move.
- Bryan
[Video] Yelp iPhone Augmented Reality Application http://blip.tv/file/2524950
- Steve Garfield
very cool - I can't believe stuff actually shows up near my house on the bay - sweet :)
- Susan Beebe
Damn, guess I'll have to upgrade to the 3GS now.
- Damon Cortesi
I am using the app in Indianapolis to find a restauant. As I guessed the augmented reality is cool but not very useful. Other than to help figure out which direction to walk in.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Argh. I wish I had wifi here so I could download it. A trip to Starbucks might be in order.
- ha3rvey (likes fritos)
killer in nyc
- mike "glemak" dunn
from iPhone
dang it - iPhone 3G...
- Jodi
iPhone 3G... not in the States... meh
- Johnny
It's innovative and that's awesome, but I think this type of interface will be a passing gimmick until more advanced image processing is built into the mobile device. My thoughts on what does matter about it here - http://bit.ly/12wtcY My $0.02.
- Alex Hawkinson
shake your iPhone 6 times, that activates GoogleVoice
- HansVanRock
Pretty damn cool. Thanks for the heads up
- Jim Goldstein
from iPhone
I just got this going on my friend's 3Gs. I don't even know what to say. That is freaking incredible! Makes me want a 3Gs *just* for that feature!
- Michael Lynton
Just tried this. Awesome! Too bad I'm in a po' dunk town with nothing to do. :)
- BRҰANSAҰS
Amazing, how on earth did you find it! It's still 6:00 am, perhaps I'll Yelp for breakfast
- Nalin Perera
Wow, I'll have to say this is phenomenal. Wish I'd had this on my trip to D.C. a couple weeks ago. Yelp just made an incredibly useful app even more useful. I've seen a lot of developers working on this technology lately but it looks like they beat everyone to the punch.
- Mike Elliott
screen capture of it in action http://twitpic.com/fklr4
- mike "glemak" dunn
I just got the yelp AR to work, and I am staying tonight in a hotel, so I went to my window, and held the camera to the window and it was able to show me reviews of the businesses right across the street from me! I am in love with yelp all over again!
- Colide81 (James)
Can't get it to work! Shook long and hard!
- UniqNYC aka Jeff
from iPhone
This youtube video should help you learn how to get it Islandwoo, I think its in how you shake it, I tryed several ways but after I watched this video I did it like the guy in the video and it worked. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Colide81 (James)
Yeah, you've got to learn to shake it just right! :-)
- Nalin Perera
RT @marshallk : i just got a demo of an awesome new Augmented Reality app for the iPhone!very cool features and story, post coming asap!
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Photo of Yelp's "secret augmented reality" iPhone app:
Eric Andersen, Chris Brakebill, Ryan W and 17 other people liked this
On plane. :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Only on 3gs?! aww man!
- John Wright
sooo glad i have the 3GS iPhone now :)
- Susan Beebe
Cyborg anthropologist @caseorganic brings the big, crazy wonderful ideas that draw me to #gnomedex. We are like trilobites. Also bees.
Josh Bancroft and Rick Turoczy liked this
Where’s the gang of 2,000 who controls tech hype hanging out today? - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
Susan Beebe, TheHenry, Josh Bancroft and 3 other people liked this
Gnomedex, by the way.
- Robert Scoble
ah, thought you were about to say blizzcon. lol
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
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Play him off...
- Josh Bancroft
I've been thinking about this carefully here at #gnomedex, and I'm coming to the conclusion that this "geek" thing may take off.
Josh Bancroft and Rick Turoczy liked this
They couldn't replicate their early "viral" success but connected more deeply with their audience. Their conclusion: "F*ck viral". #gnomedex
Alberto Saavedra, Josh Bancroft and Rick Turoczy liked this
Oh I get it. It's Mechanical Turk for proteins. #gnomedex
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They don't pay us $0.02 per protein fold, though. :(
- Rochelle
Flipside Wallet™- The Wallet Has Evolved - http://www.flipsidewallet.com/feature...
Carlton Hackett, Josh Bancroft and Jay Gunn liked this
This is most intriguing. I might need one :)
- Jay Gunn
Ooh. I want one of those. My cards are forever getting bent/damaged in my wallet when I sit on it. $40 is kind of steep, but I dig the orange one... :-)
- Josh Bancroft
from iPhone
My favorite ideas are ones that I used to think were stupid. (via @mattgillooly)
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Here's how to get tethering on any iPhone right now, no jailbreak, for free | 9 to 5 Mac - http://www.9to5mac.com/9to5mac...
Josh Bancroft liked this
Embarrassed and ashamed to be an iPhone developer after reading about the Eucalyptus rejection. Feels like I work for the government.
Toby Graham, Josh Bancroft and Christoph Studer liked this
What's eucalyptus?
- Ashwin Bharambe
haha, i swear i tried. but i just did not try those keywords. on hindsight, that was just dumb of me. thanks, karl!
- Ashwin Bharambe
yeah, hope that wasn't too snarky, I was recently lmgtfy'd and can't resist doing it to others now :)
- Karl Rosaen
KARL I LOVE YOU, first time i've seen that!
- Toby Graham
And Joe is right thats
- Toby Graham
Why did the multi-threaded chicken cross the road? To get to side. the other (With apologies to whoever posted this an hour ago, can't find)
Jordan Brock, Dilip Dand, Michael Fidler and 4 other people liked this
FF search knows! http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I made a promise years ago to never use PowerPoint in front of an audience again. So, how do I organize a presentation? Mind Manager.
Kathleen Capps, Elliott Goodwin, Daniel Schildt and 120 other people liked this
It's magic. Frees your mind from the stupid bullet list that bores audiences to death. Every time I see a PowerPoint deck my brain turns off.
- Robert Scoble
I have used this for years, great communication tool
- Mel Buckpitt
i prefer personalbrain. not as easy to use as mind manager but powerful nonetheless.
- Daniel Langendorf
Robert, as a former highschool teacher, I can assure you that Powerpoint is the evil enemy of learning...and yet every school insisted teachers started using it because the schools thought PP "was" technology...yikes. Advice? Tell stories with passion and understanding.
- Daniel Kenney
Daniel: I totally agree. The way schools teach technology just makes me ill.
- Robert Scoble
anyone ever try prezi.com? it's a bit different-- much more visual
- Ted Curran
So instead of Powerpoint™, use a real presentation platform that allows interactive data and tactile response to both you and your audience.
- Eric Martindale
i have been working on a new keynote /powerpoint method I can
- Ted Curran
PowerPoint is only a problem in that it makes it way too easy to just make lists of bullet points. They almost force you to go down that path. If they could somehow turn that off, and just provide the functionality to create a series of slides, each of which had a line or two of text, an image, etc... I don't think it'd get such a bad rap.
- Ken Sheppardson
*call "Attention Method"-- it's a way to use PPT or Apple Keynote not in the way the program wants to be used but in the way people's minds work
- Ted Curran
similar to other software noted is my favorite.. Big Mouth
- Daniel Kenney
What makes Mind Manager the first platform to come to mind? I have never heard of it until right now.
- Amani
I agree Daniel Kenney :(
- Mohammad Abdurraafay
Amani: I saw Buzz Bruggeman give a talk with it and was mesmerized.
- Robert Scoble
Try Prezi, and if you have some time to devote to it, Keynote. Both are really pretty impressive.
- Ivan
I came across http://prezi.com last month, worth a look. It has sort of a tv commercial look, like the 2-d Ford pickup commercials.
- Tanner Powell
I kind of like Prezi too. Very visual. Depends on the situation I suppose.
- Kim Feraday
Keynote.
- Jeremy Franklin
sure. try www.prezi.com. its amazing
- gatza
I don't want to get into a PowerPoint bashing thing here, but I agree it's bad. Another thing I've noticed is that the boring speakers usually have the most elaborate PP presentations. Yikes.
- Christopher Harper
I'm a big fan of MindManager as well. Once you're done conceptualizing your presentation, Powerpoint (or any other presentation tool) can obviously be used as an effective tool. Powerpoint isn't innately evil, it's just too easy to miss-use. If you want to try a different tool give sliderocket.com a try. (but I'd stick with Mindmanager)
- Jason Goldberg
Well that's two programs I had no idea existed 15 minutes ago.
- Dean Clark
Do you use iThoughts iPhone app? I use it every day and they just upgraded to allow Mind Manager export
- Dave
Prezi is too difficult to learn for anyone - it is supercool but if you want to get right down to working, forget it - I wish I could use it - for mindmaps to me nothing beats MindMeister both for presentation materials as well for organizing ideas and tools - it is much easier and immediate than any other mindmapping tool I have tried, including having a full revisions history, working...
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- Robin Good
In the end the vote of PowerPoint chastity should really be targeted at avoiding making the "types" of PowerPoint slideshows that are so bad. Bad choice of images, too much text, and you reading them as you show them. It is not the tool so much, but the culture we have built around it. Whether with PowerPoint, Keynote, Sliderocket, OpenOffice or GoogleDocs the power of your presentation...
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- Robin Good
I wholeheartedly agree with you..PP is horrible! I refuse to use it and I've made a point to reject ppt files that colleagues send me with slides re design changes. I'll have to give MindManager a try..sounds great.
- Sufian Siddiqi
from fftogo
Prezi does look cool. I definitely need to take it for a spin.
- Alexander Grundner
Chalk board & elaborate hand gestures
- The Real sofarsoShawn
The issue with powerpoint (and keynote) is that the flow of the presentation is completely locked in, and the presentation environment is unchanging. Mindmanager (or Freemind) allows branching, and the ability to store extra content for questions (only use as needed). Powerpoint or equivalent is good for building a screen when you want one that can dynamically build. An alternative way...
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- Alistair Nicholson
I used to use Thebrain.com personal brain for the same purpose. I stopped when I moved to multiplatforms (Mac and linux as well as Windows). I just checked back at the site to find that it is now available cross-platform (haven't checked that the data files are yet tho). I might be remaking contact with an old friend! I liked the easy way one could use local files or web resources. By...
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- Alistair Nicholson
@alistair: It is possible to branch PowerPoint -presentations with hyperlinks that jump from slide to another. Never considered it, but interesting idea. For example, after determining audience level, it could skip slides that explain basic things for experienced audience.
- Jemm
I like Mind Manager. Wish i had a reason to use it.
- Rodfather
Mind Manager rocks on a tablet pc
- Mel Buckpitt
Definitely. That was the last time I used it. It integrated with OneNote well too.
- Rodfather
Check out the free pptplex from Office Labs which is an add in for PP that gives you a similar zooming interface as Prezi. http://www.officelabs.com/project...
- Jamie
Alistair: That is exactly how I use PersonalBrain. I have it set up in Dropbox and am able to access it with any computer. It's worth a look-see again. It's also worth using to flesh out ideas for presentations, too, no matter what tool you end up using.
- Daniel Langendorf
Use Prezi at Prezi.com! ;) or sliderocket.com
- Csaba Mad
I am adoring Prezi - just the freshness of the look gives you a 50% boost in new biz meetings, and I really haven't found it at all hard to learn to use
- Jamie
Last week i was thinking how lame PP is and actually did a presentation at college bashing it. The tool i've used for that was Prezi.com, the one mentioned by a lot of ppl in this thread. You should give them some love, definetely a great worth a look tool.
- Diego Sana
I got tired of trying to find the perfect presentation technique and ended up developing my own http://mlx.netii.net/templat... not perfect, but it works for me.
- MLx
Daniel & Jemm - thanks for that. I've just installed personalbrain on the Mac and opened some old brains done in the PC (aahh nostalgia). I really missed it as a tool. I've been using freemind, which does have some very good features, but personalbrain is still a better tool for this sort of work. Thanks.
- Alistair Nicholson
Jemm - in some cases I will just generate one or two slides using ppt or similar. By exporting them they become individual objects that I can mix and match - or call on as I need, without having to consider how to jump to them within the powerpoint package. Powerpoint (or keynote) then becomes a graphic slide authoring tool that just generates some components or objects I use in my...
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- Alistair Nicholson
I have presented for many years with MindManager. Its great for interactive presentations. Tomorrow I will use it present to a conference of independent financial advisers on the subject of mind mapping and mind mapping software. I humbly suggest they will remember my hour more than the 5 other hours of PowerPoint. This is web version summary. http://twurl.nl/24rzyv
- Andrew Wilcox
Final Cut...create a video!
- Michela Cimnaghi /cimny
Powerpoint is a time sink - whenever I have had to use it I ended up using more time fixing the presentation than focusing on the message. Can't remember which company took powerpoint off the systems and said they measured a productivity increase... or if it is a digital legend... but from my experience I can believe it.
- Iphigenie
"It's a poor workman who blames his tools" -- old proverb
- Karim
Will you post your preso somewhere, would be great to see how you use it in place of powerpoint.
- JCunwired
Meh. Powerpoint is a tool to put stuff on screen. As long as you're not just reading off it...
- Yuvi
Just convert powerpoint slides into pdf and present pdf to the audience.Although I am not a great fan of PDF or for that matter any powerpoint like software.
- Ashish
ashish: you're not getting it. There's nothing worse to do to an audience than to present a standard powerpoint deck to them. The format is NOT what makes that boring.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Flash is the answer but it's a pain to learn and expensive to outsource, but that's the answer I think. Besides that, Mindjet MindManager is a fantastic peice of software
- Brandon Hall
You're right, it's not the format, nor is it Powerpoint. It is not using it to in an engaging way.
- Dennis Beatty
Robert,Sorry for misinterpreting your question. This one is a really tricky question.
- Ashish
I often find slides take away from the message - people are reading the slide text instead of looking at and listening to the speaker, and the speaker is looking at the slides instead of at the audience. I wouldnt mind the speaker looking at the screen if he was demonstrating something (or writing, in the old blackboard style) but in a way slides which were supposed to support the presentation end up taking away from it. Too passive?
- Iphigenie
prezi is pretty amazing mark. i also use Free Mind but have never used it for a presentation...
- Morgan
wishing for 2nd like or something to bump this up higher amongst my likes and discussions
- metalerik
dream about it http://mindmappingsoftwareblog.com/
- bonuck (e gli associati?)
I have a talk tomorrow morning at my kids' school about technology in education. I was brainstorming it in Curio and Keynote, but I bought Prezi Pro just cuz it looks so cool. It's a little quirky, a little buggy, and not as flexible as, say Keynote, but it sure is a unique look. Mindmapping + Presentations.
- Leo Laporte
Nothing wrong with Powerpoint, it's just a tool. I do just fine with it and Keynote. Sounds like it's a presenter issue if you're bored
- Bwana ☠
I love mindmanager, but its license is toooo stupidly and insanely expensive!!
- Mohamed Salem Korayem
yeah I love using xmind for organizing talking points but I don't normally use them to present - most audiences don't grok them ime
- mike "glemak" dunn
I'm sorry, trying to learn. I have a 30 slide presentation (+-10) that i present to customers around the world usually in a room of about 10 people. What could Mind Manager do that PPT isn't doing?
- SteVe C
For everyone looking to learn more about using MindManager for presentations, I have written up a number of posts on the Mindjet blog that talks about how to do it, some best practices and sample maps. The most popular post in the series was from PresentationCamp SF, "Become a Presentation Superhero": http://blog.mindjet.com/2009... while other posts covered using images, colors, and fonts within your mind maps. Check'em out or contact me if you have questions!
- Michael Deutch
thx michael, bookmarked.
- SteVe C
ah, michael good to see you here - for those who don't know him michael is mindjet’s chief evangelist & one of the hardest working community engagement folks on the net - i use xmind because i test lots of open source tools but have been a customer of mindjet for years & love mindmanager :)
- mike "glemak" dunn
Yeah thanks Michael, I've been wanting to see some examples/how-to's about using MindManager for presentations.
- Justin Hopkins
Actually I spoke too soon. I'm curious to see some video of a person "giving a talk with it" like you said Robert. Do you have any recordings of some of yours of the Buzz Bruggeman talk you mentioned?
- Justin Hopkins
I find using a Mind Map a lot easier for people to follow and sparks a lot more collaboration from the group.
- Jim Lavin
Robert try Prezi:http://prezi.com/
- Dean Kakridas
If you hate Powerpoint, Robert & friends, then you have to check out Edward Tufte's essay "The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within." It's brilliant. And the cover still cracks me up: http://tr.im/lXjv
- Alan Mairson
Funny thing for me is that I've always made fun of PP style presentations and have been known as someone who really gets groups interacting, etc. (check out this clip of a game I led at Seattle Mindcamp -http://tinyurl.com/qjathj) BUT, just recently, I've discovered that for my type of improvised, interactive, often scattered, creative style --powerpoint is actually a good (much needed!) balance. So I've been upping the KeyNote. MultiModal is the way :)
- Leif Hansen
Robin Good: great comment on MindMeister.com - present.io is a very interesting app to keep track of, if you are doing a lot of online presentations. I use Skype screen share (Mac) for Coaching and presenting ways and methods to use applications.
- Jan Friman
from Nambu
How about having a standard cheaper version of mindmanager. I dont use all the awesome features version 8
- Mohamed Salem Korayem
Jemm and others - I'm back having been in the most boring presentation today that I have experienced in a very long time - powerpoint slides of the most horrible structure, plus given over a video conferencing tool where the presenter didn't read any of the questions in the typing area! Thebrain has a free version. What I've found is that because I use tiddlywiki (also free) to organise...
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- Alistair Nicholson
just a quick reaction to the person who suggested video - what can video add if you are there in person?
- Iphigenie
@Joelle a video is a way to engage the audience and let the main messages be reminded. Your role there is to give the right introduction to the video and then open and manage the discussion after it. People will partecipate more to teh discussion. That's my personal experience by the way!
- Michela Cimnaghi /cimny
Robert, I agree & use MindManager for presentations, as well as various project information summaries, trying to stick to a "one sheet" philosophy for reports. One of my pet peeves is presenters who read the bullets on a PPT. Yikes!
- Rick Cogley
Joelle (thanks Michela) another use of video is short interviews or contributions. For example case studies with a manager from the customer explaining their problem, a business analyst explaining their technique around a specific problem, a web designer talking about how they 'imagine' the personality of a site, demonstration of an experimental technique with a patient. It creates...
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- Alistair Nicholson
I also meant to draw attention to Lief's comment about multi modal and how sometimes a powerpoint slide can present the underlying structure or main points of the presentation. I still believe there can be a place for dot points - so long as they are not the sole content. I believe there are few that would suggest Steve Jobs' presentations are boring, for example. Always worth a watch and they can be found on youtube. Other exemplars are the top rated talks on TED.com.It gives me something to aim for.
- Alistair Nicholson
FreeMind is very useful and Open Source. Give it a try!
- Nicola Junior Vitto
just got into Amode 4 project mgmt. same company @MindSystems. imports @MindJet.
- Courtney Engle
IMHO, my best tool is a whiteboard, and second place, a notebook with squares to plan a sort of storyboard. When I switch back to analog planning, I started to get my best results back on PowerPoint (I love 2007 version). Cheers,
- Rolando Peralta
Wow, what a great thread! I explored some best practices for presentations and wrote the following posts on the Mindjet blog. They could apply for any type of presentation but they're primarily focused on mind mapping...The first: 10 Steps to Great Presentation Maps -- http://blog.mindjet.com/2009...
- Michael Deutch
Next, How to Make a Great Presentation: Mapping Your Content -- This one applies to using mind maps to 'think through' your presentation content, regardless of what tool you select for the actual presentation: http://blog.mindjet.com/2009...
- Michael Deutch
Your use of colors will impact the audience. Use them well! The Secrets of Using Colors in Maps - http://blog.mindjet.com/2009...
- Michael Deutch
What’s a Picture Worth? Here's a post about incorporating images into mind map presentations. http://blog.mindjet.com/2009... -- I saw an interesting tweet from Andrew Wilcox earlier today where he suggested placing large images inside 'topic notes'.
- Michael Deutch
Prezi reminds me of microsoft photosynth.
- Ashish
And finally, here are a couple of posts about fonts in your mind map presentations: 10 Fixes for Font Foibles! (http://blog.mindjet.com/2009...) and More Fun for Font Fanatics (http://blog.mindjet.com/2009...).
- Michael Deutch
michael: constructive suggestion - you should setup a mindmap group here on ff so these suggestions can be feed in separately and others can participate, they're just going to get lost inside this thread...
- mike "glemak" dunn
Wow what a great discussion. I have never heard of Prezi before and I will have a very imortant presentation to one of MNO next week. I prepared with PP, but now consider to do from scratch via Prezi.com. Thanks guys!
- Jacque
Robert, do you have anything that you can share that you've used Mind manager for? Do you actually use it in presentations or do you use it as a thought organizing tool? Thanks for answering if you have the time!
- Gregg Morris
i was blown away by a preso done in prezi.com. tried it out, the UI takes some getting used to, but w/ patience the zoom in/out approach yields great presos. worth checking out some of the demos. I saw a preso done w/ it that all took place inside the dot of a question mark (that was the reveal at end of preso). cool.
- Adrian Chan
re. TiddlyWiki: should I mention, that there's also a true presentation version?... http://ow.ly/8vMH
- schilke
Or you could emulate Carrot Top and use props from a great big trunk. Problem is you need to be a) really pumped up and b) certifiably nuts.
- bob corrigan
Schilke - thanks for the link to tiddlywiki presentation version. I've bookmarked that and visited the example. With tiddlywiki each 'tiddler' has a specifically adressable URL so that pages can be individually linked from mindmapping software. That way a complete subtopic can be created as a 'deck' but not invoked in the presentation unless we choose to go there. Back to the 'horrible'...
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- Alistair Nicholson
A cool MindMapping alternative is XMind.
- Martin Seibert
Overheard: "What's an OLED?" "It stands for Organic LED." "What, you mean like an LED from Whole Foods?"
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ROFL
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
LEDs for techie greenhouses?
- Pete D
Twitter now available on Samsung TVs - http://www.pocket-lint.com/news...
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"Samsung has announced that Twitter will soon be available on its Internet@TV service and usable on the company's LED 6000, 7000 and 8000 series televisions and 6 and 7 series LCD televisions. As previously reported on Pocket-lint, Internet@TV taps into the Yahoo! widget engine for stock info, weather, news and other internet services, appearing as a scroll bar at the bottom of the screen and now it seems Twitter, which will allow users to tweet along to their favourite programmes as they watch them."
- Alan Cheslow
from Bookmarklet
Nice! I have an LN4A650, and I haven't even hooked up the internet connection, because the "ticker" stuff you can get from USAToday is so lame. It would be great if they'd allow RSS feeds, but at Twitter is at least a step in the right direction. :-)
- Josh Bancroft
Has anyone else noticed that the article on Samsung TV shows a photo of Toshiba? :)
- JCunwired
My TVs are the one place I escape where I am off the grid, and now this!
- JCunwired
@mrudski I agree. It would be great to find a way to sell ebooks after the fact to existing print book owners, at deep discount. How deep?
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max 3,95$ i like this idea very much!!!
- Arne Krueger
Do this, please. O'Reilly already excels at giving extras to those who buy the dead tree version of a book. The only books (heck, the only *anything*) I bother to register online are O'Reilly books. Would love to see free/cheap ebook version as a benefit (I've wished for this from Amazon from the day the Kindle launched). :-)
- Josh Bancroft
Wondering why Google was slow/down for ~14% of users for about an hour? Urs tells what happened: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
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Really screwed us up at work today!
- charles cole
And now that page is not loading.
- Joe Bonner
A theory on the reply change --> the celebs were getting spammed mercilessly.
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Eh? The setting was opt-in.
- Daniel Sims
It makes me feel that Twitter prefer to rely on celebs followers rather than the others? (bloggers, businesses, marketers..)
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
oh totally - i'd almost guarantee that the celebs drove this change - and it was a year+ in the making [edit: not so sure about this now, but i'll let it stand as i wrote it earlier today]
- Chris Heath
I thought the change only made it so you dont see other people you follow's replies to people you dont follow where it starts with @user. You will still see @replies to you from people you dont follow show up in your mentions. So if celebs only follow 20 people, but get 200 replies to a tweet, they still show up in the replies tab for them. Just culls some of the noise from the people...
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- Simon Wicks
Simon: think of it this way... a celeb only wants to see the @ replies to them, not the @ replies that their followers are sending out to other celebs or other lay-users - they've got enough coming thru their twitter pipe that all those extra at-replies make their stream very noisy - and instead of figuring out how to get a better signal/noise they ask twitter to do it for them - makes total sense to me and from twitter's past actions this type of action would not be out of place
- Chris Heath
But its their fault for following everybody back, and enabling see all @replies then. Same with anyone else.
- Simon Wicks
Look, guys, this behavior that we see imposed on us today used to be default. In order to change it to see all replies, you had to dive into Settings. So no, this theory doesn't make any sense to me.
- Vlad Bobleanta
for a 'celeb' who only follows a few people this is no big deal, but for one, they don't allow the auto follow back anymore, do they? and the feature that was turned off wasn't the default either, so most 'celebs' probably didn't have that feature to begin with... maybe it wasn't the celebs that 'did' this --- maybe it's an infrastructure play and they'll have less fail whales if they don't have to parse that setting
- Chris Heath
dave - that's what i said last night - the celebs brought this on im sure - they have a special hotline to twitter
- Allen Stern
But if they didn't go into settings and TURN ON see all @replies, they'd never experience that. Vlad's right. And if they did, and didn't like getting spammed, all they gotta do is go TURN IT OFF. Doesn't make sense.
- Jandy
Yeah Jandy, that's what i was thinking... but the celebs can't control what we all have for our settings, so if you @reply Oprah, and i'm following you i can see that @reply to Oprah, but only if i'm also following Oprah... in that regard, it's a way to get more people to follow 'celebs'. Under the old way (if i had my settings set right, and i did) I could see your 'conversation' with...
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- Chris Heath
The way that this is reported to have been implemented it doesn't change the spamability factor. The way I understood this was that only tweets beginning in an "@" would not be seen. Other mentions would be seen. I could be mistaken. It also seems as thought this was not affecting API clients. Suggestion from one developer say this will not affect their app.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Allen, I bet they don't need to wait few month to get some twitter help support..
- Orli Yakuel
If it doesn't affect clients (and won't ever), then I guess I'm a little bit back to...why do it at all? Does anyone NOT use a client?
- Jandy
A commenter on Sheamus' post http://twittercism.com/all-rep... suggested what I think is the perfect solution. Enable us to choose on a user by user basis if we want to see "all @replies", "replies only from those I'm following", or "no replies".
- Sharon McPherson
Jandy: Yes, there are some who don't use a client, because of work, school, OS restrictions.
- Sharon McPherson
there are web based clients to use - one need not use the twitter.com website to connect via http
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Sharon, thats how it has always been. Which is why I'm confused by the whole thing! There has ALWAYS been (until now) the option to choose if we want to see "all @replies", "replies only from those I'm following", or "no replies". The big deal now is that we are no longer given the option to see all @ replies.
- Charley M
FYI: FriendFeed is an HTTP twitter client
- Chris Heath
Jandy: It does affect clients. Replies to strangers are also gone from the same friends_timeline that clients use. Clients can get around it by separately retrieving the user_timeline of each user that you follow and displaying them with the regular timeline, but this would be expensive in terms of API calls. FriendFeed doesn't use friends_timeline, you actually follow a separate FriendFeed which simply has Twitter updates posted to it, so FF is not affected.
- Guan Yang
Charley: Now you can't even choose "no replies".
- Guan Yang
Charley: I'm aware of how the replies function has worked, what the commenter was suggesting is that Twitter give us the option to choose on a user by user basis how we want the replies settings to work for that user. For instance, if I'm following you on Twitter I could set the option to be "all @replies". If I'm following someone else who is particularly chatty, I could choose the...
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- Sharon McPherson
Sharon - aah right apologies, my mistake there :) That would be a great feature actually, much better than the original options. Would solve my problem now of having too many tweets in my timeline from particular people protesting the change by not putting the @ first.
- Charley M
Celebs don't follow anyone, so how could this be an issue?
- Mike Lizun
MIke: My humble opinion, I don't think it was so much the celebs that complained, but the groupies that followed them clogging up timelines tweeting to Oprah, Kutcher, and such, when there was a snowball's chance in hell they would get a response. I think most of the complaining came from Twitter users themselves who were getting tired of it.
- Sharon McPherson
I second Sharon's comment.
- Damon Cortesi
Could this be partly be because of Troy's Script, which I understand bypasses the default setting in Twitter to show all replies?
- Molly
Thank you Damon. But that still doesn't explain why Twitter didn't just tell the complainers they had 2 options, change their replies settings to "replies only from those I'm following", or, unfollow.
- Sharon McPherson
There's a simple solution to that too, Molly. Uncheck that option from the script's features or remove the script.
- Sharon McPherson
Guan, huh. Looks like you're right. I just checked Seesmic Desktop, and looks like I don't seen any replies to people I'm not following. I swear I looked at Twitterfox this morning and did, though. Did they just update the API within the last few hours?
- Jandy
In relationship to the celeb perspective, this thread added to my perspective http://friendfeed.com/kevinro...
- hollyrae
One more comment and then I'll shut up. Like Dave said in his article here, http://www.scripting.com/stories... I too saw a message on the Twitter home page advising of a change in the way replies works, but once the page had loaded completely, it was gone. I think they knew the kind of uproar this would cause and for some reason tried to slide it in as inconspicuously as they could.
- Sharon McPherson
(from another thread) I think, given @biz's bs this morning about the engineering team reminding him this is a technical necessity, that twitter is grasping at straws trying to cut interprocess messaging traffic down in order to stay afloat. While I'm not an expert in the flow that they're using at twitter, I can suggest that in networking design, it's much less taxing to drop traffic...
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- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Update from Twitter - Replies will be fixed http://blog.twitter.com/2009...
- Sharon McPherson
Let this be a lesson: Next time Twitter screws up, everyone just needs to choke @ev and @biz with @bombs and they'll be forced to listen. Maybe they'll even learn to like, and USE twitter.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob, and get #twitterfail to trend along with whatever the fail-specific tag is. ;)
- Jandy
+2 Jandy :-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Sharon: I LOVED Troy's script. Apparently the new changes disabled it. I could only see my own updates when I was on Twitter a few minutes ago so came here. :-D
- Molly
Molly: I hadn't received a Twitter update in over an hour, they're just now starting to trickle in.
- Sharon McPherson
I agree w/(someone) who said we need threaded comments here in FF. Sharon: It's late now so Twitter's fixing itself will have to wait for me to get back to it. :-P
- Molly
Rutger: got the inside scoop? Are you sure nobody complained? (the twitter being dumb part is right on though)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Still using Hotmail or Yahoo Mail? Google just made it incredibly easy to switch to Gmail: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009... Try it!
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Most people use Hotmail and/or Yahoo Mail along side Gmail.
- Amit Morson
I sure hope it runs gmail's spam filtering on the imported mail first. My old hotmail account has so much spam mixed in eith real email...
- Joel Webber
i stopped using Hotmail as soon as I got Gmail, years ago, but I still have a lot of mail sitting there that I'd love to have archived and searchable in Gmail. It's probably worth the hassle to import it. Going to check it out.
- Josh Bancroft
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