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We always come back to the bigger screens for real work, don't we? :) - James Kendrick

James i can't agree more with you. When i am mobile, my netbooks are really perfect and i love to use them for blogging from a conference or showfloor. But on my desk back in my appartment, the good ole' Dell still is my favorite - Sascha Pallenberg

You know whats gonna happen if you still have that dell at IFA... Did you see the Ice-T video.. - jkkmobile

Haha, JKK will you kill it? I am just about to get a new fan so i can run it again at 1.6Ghz. Right now it's running fanless @600Mhz :) - So you will be in Berlin mate? - Sascha Pallenberg

Not 100% sure yet, but looking good.. - jkkmobile

Most batteries today will run at least several hours even after a year. From conversations with lots of mobile workers I believe it's simply fear. They stay plugged in just in case they find themselves away from a plug someday. That means they almost never use a laptop unplugged, something that amuses me to no end. :) - James Kendrick from email

Mostly fear probably. If your laptop lasts 2 hours and you spend an hour of it at the coffee shop, you have that worry of running out of juice since there's only a hour left before you need to plug in. - Rodfather

I run in to this all the time - most people don't "get" smartphones. Surprisingly, even at IT companies I've found most people just aren't that interested. - Chris Rogers

Early adopter != consumer always Robert. - Pete D from iPhone

Funny consumers always copy early adopters. Always. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

The motivation behind my choice of the Jack was its being a smartphone. - Jack&Cleo

Average Consumers may not care about smart phones specifically but many want mobile devices. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

I had no desire to own a smartphone before my company provided me with a Blackjack II when I started working there late last year. Now I can't live without it but prior to that I had a basic LG phone that I was very happy with. When I leave here and have to give the Blackjack back I don't know if I'll go back to a regular personal phone or get a smartphone. I think they're overkill for the average consumer. - DB, Just DB #TeamMonique

This isn't true in my case. I work at a high school and I have teachers and staff constantly asking me about phone features and plans. A large number of them really want the features of a smartphone but are just limited by the data plan costs. Maybe it's because they see me using these features as part of my job, I am their early adopter to model after in many ways. - Ryan Massie

Apple is (obviously) going in the right direction with smartphones by making the "smart" less complicated. Eventually the "smart" part of the phone will be completely transparent. The majority of people still won't know or care that they have a smartphone, but they'll use the features and (like the early adopters) will find they can't live without them. - Chris Rogers

Robert, Read the entire article. "Regular" consumers are buying cool phones, they don't care about the "smartphone-ness" of it. They aren't even aware of what smartphones can do, they are buying phones and then discovering (or sometimes not even then) what cool things they can do. Make no mistake how much of an early adopter you are, Robert. - James Kendrick from email

An example- my kid's friend came over recently. Saw my Palm Pre and pulled his own out. Said how much he loved the Pre. I asked him how he liked webOS and he responded (with a blank stare)- "what's that?" It's a phone, not a webOS smartphone. - James Kendrick

I agree. I think the smartphone without the complications a lot of folks associate with smartphones will end up being the killer app/device that really brings average consumers in droves. That and price point. iPhones are nice but they're sill a bit pricey. Plus the data plans are still cost prohibitive for a lot of folks (myself included). - DB, Just DB #TeamMonique

So what if they don't understand that it's a category of phone. What they do understand and want is that they can put apps on it and it gets internet. They want the things that make it a smartphone. - Ryan Massie

James: I've had this same argument 100 times in my career. I remember people saying the same things about PCs in 1977. - Robert Scoble

Robert: I get what you're saying, you're missing what I'm saying. People are buying the PHONE and then discovering what it can do. Not buying the smartphone just to get the features. It's about marketing and the way consumers work. Not you, not me or other folks familiar with the features, regular "street" people. - James Kendrick

All i can say is i do not think i could live without my iphone 3gs - Aaron Thorn

Seems like there's a cycle of breakdown between the developers, adopters, marketers & consumers. Even standard features get rebranded and commoditized to the point of confusion across all lines. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ from iPhone

Just about all my friends aren't exactly tech savvy and don't care about smartphones. They care about the network more and most have Verizon. Their upgrade was the cheapest phone with a nice keyboard and a camera and are totally fine with that. - Rodfather

If anything the data plan scares most away. That's the point where they decide if browsing the web is worth it and in most cases it isn't. A phone that can text message easier than the previous phone is good enough. - Rodfather

The entire thing smacks of being a charade. - Warner Crocker

I agree that they have a serious problem there - Steve 'Chippy' Paine

One should either be in the tech sales biz or tech news/opinion biz... not both. - Kevin C. Tofel

OH YES - Mona Nomura

Lindsey, I immediately thought of you and your bravery when I saw this. It's why I had to order it: for the good of the FF. - FFing Enigma

I live near a place called "peanut butter and co.", they make the most outrageous sandwiches i've ever seen--fluffernutter, bacon, peanut butter, and banana sandwich. sorry to one up you. here's the link: http://www.ilovepeanutbutter.com/sandwic... - Melissa Maskevich

NOPE. - Rochelle

One up away Melissa!!! Fluffernutters and quite tasty, but I'd never seen one like this. After one bite, though, I determined it needed maple syrup. - FFing Enigma

NOPE. - Akiva

Yikes. - Steven Perez

pass I love both...but no way! - Susan Beebe

I promise, as foul as it sounds and looks: if you enjoy PB and you enjoy bacon, you'd be all about this sandwich. The 3 people I ate breakfast with agreed that it was surprisingly tasty. - FFing Enigma

bacon and peanut butter are good... but together? hmm - I had egg, cheese, and bacon on toast this morning - Nathan Chase

In the words of Ali G, "Respect". - Jonathon

FAIL for the bacon. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

Wow I saw this and thought of Lindsey. I don't even know you, Lindsey, and you occupy my thoughts! MINX - Zach Landes

Anyone want to know what I had IN ADDITION to my PB & B sandwich? No pics, but also nommy... - FFing Enigma

Lindsey!!! You are TOTALLY my hero! - Mona Nomura

banana? i just ate peanut butter & banana sandwich. mmmm - Rodfather

My other breakfast order was a crab, avocado, and jack cheese omlette. Not nearly so daring, but tasty. - FFing Enigma

Next up: hot fudge burritos (igggh) - Anthony Citrano

The old Elvis breakfast sandwich. - James Kendrick

I thought that was a friend peanut butter and banana sandwich? Don't know, as I never followed Elvis all that much. - FFing Enigma

I would so tap that - Josh Haley

Peanut butter and banana on wholegrain is tasty and nutritious. I therefore think that either Elvis had his deepfried or it was, indeed, peanut and bacon butties he liked :) - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

Fried was of course what I meant above. I shall leave the typo because " a friend peanut butter and banana sandwich" makes me laugh: who would have a friend on a sandwich? Don't answer that... - FFing Enigma

HA HA HA HA HA ew! - Josh Haley

*...not answering that....* - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

I've been exposing my fellow coworkers to the bacony goodness from FF and one of them brought up this concoction. Now I have a second reliable source. - Eric - seven eleven

I have no words (because I cannot speak with that gooeying up my mouth) - Michael W. May

Michael: I washed mine down with coffee. Milk would have worked in a pinch. - FFing Enigma

I wonder why Elvis opted for banana and not bacon with his PB sandwich? - JR

I agree Walt! - FFing Enigma

whorf! gimme a mop, I just spewed. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

i'm just regurgitating this again because it's bloody disgusting... :) - Zee.

Bumping for Caroline to prove that this exists =) - FFing Enigma

*VOM* - Shey

The main attribute of all of the blogs I read regularly is the distinctive personality of their authors. - Bret Taylor

Was that before blogs started taking on ad dollars like the traditional media? - Shawn Farner

+1 Bret - the voice is what forms the elusive context to all this random data flow. - Micah

IMO there are new breeds -- Online "journals" like Arstechnica, Engadget, etc. that almost function like online "newspapers" in the traditional sense. Then there are "blogs" like Scoble or Andrew Sullivan which are distinctive authors whose opinions you are collecting as well as information. I apologize for the gratuitous use of quotes... The English language is ill suited for these types of distinctions =) - Mark Philpot

Tech embargoes many times are for promotions, not news. You often get information spoon fed (screenshots and other product promises & descriptions) which turns out to be advertisement, not fact, and basing an article on that instead of a real-live product review (which finds bugs, quirks etc. a press release would never list) can turn out to be misleading to readers. - Philipp Lenssen

The most valuable blogs are the sources, the platforms of people reporters go to (or should go to) for the facts and expertise that forms their reporting. - Dave Winer

Blogging *is* about news, in the first person. - Dave Winer

@brett - I agree. it is about people writing about stuff they cared about. @Dave Winer... you are right about it being news. but it wasn't news as how we knew it. it was different. it was about finding and sharing things. reporters who cared. not press releases. - Om Malik

Om I agree. - Dave Winer

Bhavishya Kanjhan... I agree. Anyway it has been good to get off the embargo bandwagon for me personally. nearly four months and well the only thing i can say - i am glad i take my time writing something. - Om Malik

Simple: they are not blogs, they are news sites. - eparody

bloggers when they want to do whatever they want, journalists when they want to be taken seriously. - Allen Stern

Blogging is about news - paul mooney

Allen, I've seen you make that comment a bunch of times. Let's see if I understand what you're saying. You think we're all hypocrites. Did I get it right? - Dave Winer

What happened was that blogging became part of the news when it became widespread. PR folks cannot ignore the bloggers because they make a difference. And that's a good thing for us bloggers. - James Kendrick

So there is a definition? Are we all now supposed to jump in a a box and say this is blogging and that is not. And the plain belly sneetches had none upon thars... - Stephan Miller from Posty

This blew me away, I figured swype had it for sure. It was interesting, but in the end it was a threaded twitter clone. I was mainly rooting for swype and adgregate markets. I think they were the most revolutionary. - pcnerd37

I really liked Swype and GoodGuide. I thought GoodGuide would take it. - David Ward

It sure wasn't predicted :) http://broadstuff.com/archive... - Broadstuff from Alert Thingy

commenters are unhappy about it too. Some say that the company behind Yammer is a TechCrunch sponsor? - James Kendrick

I don't know if they were a TechCrunch sponsor or not, but wouldn't be suprised to hear they paid off the judges somehow. I would not have even had them in a top 5 list. - pcnerd37

This surprised me also. - Oldengrey (Jay)

Twitter themselves could've done it. Just add special groups for domains. - Morton Fox

It reminds of an episode of Project Runway. What was the challenge? If the challenge was to create something avant-guard, which the show defines as something nobody has seen before, then a garment that looks like it came off the rack at Macys will not do. Or is the challenge to create something that will feel comfortable in a mall department store? Then a puffy glittery thing won't do. It seems this contest was of the department store variety but the early adopters want it to be avant-guard. - Todd Hoff

I summarized my thoughts in my first of many posts about the companies at the TechCrunch50 on my Global Geek News Blog: http://globalgeeknews.com/blog... I will say that all things considered, it was an amazing conference and I continue to thank Jason for inviting me. - pcnerd37

was surprised Swype didn't take it, lame whatevs - adolfo foronda

It seems that it is "Twitter, but works better" or "Twitter, with a different twist"... Unfortunate pick for winner. - Trae Ruge

This was a HORRIBLE pick to win this conference. How is this considered original? There are tons of other companies creating enterprise Twitter-like apps and there is only so much differentiation you can have between apps that do the exact same thing. Personally I thought Swype should have won. It's basically T9 2.0 and if v 1.0 is already shipping on like 3bil handsets how successful could this be since it is designed for multiple devices, not just cell phones. - Devlin Dunsmore from twhirl

You know, this has been around for years. At my last job, we just had our own IRC channel. Plain, simple, and free. - Wizetux

IM is also pretty widely used by developers. - Todd Hoff

Yes, and multi-user chats on Skype can do the job as well :) - Svetlana Gladkova

The kind of feedback I am hearing here and offline, makes me think Yammer is going to be successful. When someone says "but this is so similar...", "we already have...." about some service, it usually means they are getting a better advanced version of something they already like/use !! - Sumit Chachra

What is/was the selection process? - Brian Sullivan

definitely frustrating... - Luca Filigheddu

First thing i've said was: "a clone just won". - Nir Ben Yona