You can't use Qik in the Oval Office but you can Twitter. How do I know that? Because today Congressman John Culberson met with the President and he said the Secret Service wouldn't let him do live video but he did Twitter from there.
Why do I find it hard to believe that the president who touts using "the Google" and the "Internets" uses Twitter? Lord knows, McCain has yet to master Windows solitaire.
- Chris Reed
Thanks for the Twitter link. It will be really interesting to follow a politician on Twitter.
- Chris Rodgers
Where can you find the Congressmans Qik Feed?
- amarquart
from twhirl
Robert: I recant. 140 characters might be just the thing. ;-)
- Chris Baskind
unfortunately you can't take pictures inside the West Wing either - WH press room is ok, Rose Garden is ok but not in
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Following. - Holy moly, he just followed me back (probably auto...).
- Vince DeGeorge
Picture the monkey in office Twittering launch codes... "Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try to invade Iran again".
- Andrew Smith
Commenting here so I remember to add him as an imaginary friend later (since I can't do that on FFToGo)
- Internet's Tad
from fftogo
Culberson was by far the best conversation of the day. He clearly loves his job and wants new technology to do it better, even if he has to learn. Amazing, amazing guy. Can't wait for his Town Hall tomorrow!
- Andrew Feinberg
wow, you guys had FUN!! so jealous... twitter in the white house holy cow! McCain is soo screwed!
- Susan Beebe
So Scoble is the Maxwell Smart of tech?
- Mark Forman
surprised they didn't just put a jammer on the the area
- clarke thomas
I'm sure we'll be able to sum up all the positive things the Bush administration accomplished in less than 140 characters.
- Kevin Shannon
About to find the John Culberson Twitter account now. Wonder what he's saying about the Scoble effect. :)
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
very cool -- like what i see... following Culberson now.
- Andy Sternberg
very interesting to see that Culberson also follows you back- almost immediately unlike some of the other politicos mentioned in yesterday's blog post.
- Nathan Eckenrode
John Culbertson followed me back immediately and then we even tweeted. I am still unsure about the other two mentioned. I can't seem to find the rep from OH and the rep from AZ (I think) his tweets have the feel of a staffer. Bears another look today though. By far the best thread yesterday!
- Mathew A. Koeneker
I had a back and forth with Congressman Culberson last night on gas prices on Twitter; pretty amazing, really.
- Lee Stranahan
from Alert Thingy
I got an immediate followback as well-- Lee, great to hear he is genuinely on the service.
- Doug Haslam
from twhirl
Rep. Culberson and I don't agree politically, but it was civil and it was a real conversation - a couple of people DMd me and said 'wow! this is cool!'. Tim Ryan is a Congressman, also on Twitter - but he follows nobody.
- Lee Stranahan
from Alert Thingy
I disagree with just about all of his politics, but I love his twitter gumption. :) Go Culbertson!
- Jarrod Morgenstern
Changelists? Merge tracking? Yay! Any plans to upgrade code.google.com/p ?
- Arne Roomann-Kurrik
Yup. 1.5 support is in the works, but no public timetable yet. Measured in months, though, not days, just to set expectations appropriately.
- DeWitt Clinton
Subversion is a great system. I'm happy with all the web-based SaaS companies that have rolled out easy-to-use SVN + web issue tracking services, like Lighthouse and Basecamp.
- Glenn Batuyong
Weird, doesn't seem to work in Fluid. Clicking the link quickly shows the loading circle on the right, then does nothing. Works fine in Safari 3.1, though.
- Mark Trapp
Liked just so people see my name when they test it out.
- DeWitt Clinton
I notice another change. "You" is the first name listed for all the things I've liked in the past. Even those where I haven't clicked on the expand Likes link. This wasn't previously the case. A bit of work on the Likes sort methodology?
- Hutch Carpenter
Noticed that too, Hutch: do you think it's sorting based on order of likes now? Obviously, with "You" always being first and outside the order.
- Mark Trapp
Mark - definitely putting "you" out front is a change. I still don't know the basis for ranking the other Likes. Maybe the guys will comment here. Or blog it.
- Hutch Carpenter
I like this addition. Clean, intuitive, simple, perfect.
- Tsega Dinka
a long list of names isn't too useful; why dont you bold the ones that are my friends?
- peter
peter: all your friends are listed first.
- Bret Taylor
More recent likes come first, so as new friends "Like" things, you see them.
- Bret Taylor
Peter, bolding is a great idea, not just here, but in general. It would be an easy way to find friends that you have not yet subscribed to.
- Scott Beale
+1 for bolding names that I'm already subscribed to.
- Mike Doeff
I tweaked the sort order to put "you" first, but apparently I forgot to tell Bret.
- Jim Norris
Indeed Shey, http://ffapps.com/showlikes/ is no longer required. Seeing a list of people who liked a particular entry is a great way to explore and discover users who share similar interests.
- Aviv
چه قدر سریع,ایده اش همین صبح مطرح شد,اسمایلی جیمبووووووووووووووووووو:))ه
- Shandiz
Expanding shows a lot of Likes up in this post!
- Joe Dawson
Definitely Karim: but this personality profile loses its teeth if you concede that we are free to choose our own destinies and define who we are. If my life is what I make of it, why do I care what some personality profile tells me about my existential angst? It gets relegated back to what Michael and I said: fun to do, but ultimately silly :-P
- Mark Trapp
I would like to participate here but I am on an iPhone. Sigh.
- Robert Scoble
haha, perfect Robert. cheating, but perfect!
- Thomas Hawk
"What We Want to Believe: The world revolves around love. The Truth: The world revolves around money."
- Mansi Bhatia
There's nothing more depressing than watching a bear cub take a swipe at a gigantic, planet-eating corporation, but that's exactly what we saw today.
- Louis Gray
You don't think Twitter is already used for marketing? Didn't you just tweet this post?If what your saying is if people drop into twitter and say "buy my shit" have a limited future - I agree. The permission based nature of Twitter effectively negates that.But I would argue that Twitter is perhaps one of the most effective "over the shoulder" marketing devices ever invented - assuming...
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- Ed Dale
from twhirl
This also looks like a "Battleship" tournament... Kevin, in fact, appears to be making the "you sank my battleship!" gesture.
- Chris Reed
Great to see a company firing on all cylinders
- Mike Doeff
Josh: the key is extremely large screens so you can't actually see the person in front of you.
- Bret Taylor
Man, do people get sent to sit by the bathroom and public writeboard as punishment?
- Stepan Mazurov
I brought a t-shirt to change into after biking to work, but I didn't bother. I might have made a different choice if I'd known it would be blogged... :-)
- Kevin Fox
@Kevin: You match the rug and lamp so it's working. :)
- Tsega Dinka
Awesome window into FF Bret. Really like the transparency and willingness to speak openly with the community and those who are critical of FF. Enjoyed that Qik inteview by what's his name...
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Wow you guys have really grown and your office looks more colorful than the "garden variety" Google office space!
- Bindu Reddy
Keep up the good work. You'll all have corner offices soon :)
- Andrew Smith
i hope one of those people is working on the "page 11" bug!
- Ňicķ
I'm with Josh - I'd probably go crazy, no matter how large the screen.
- Ontario Emperor
Wait, there's somebody on the other side of my monitor?
- Casey Muller
im all up in paul's code now! and that guy in the orange really sits up straight
- Allen Stern
I want to go and meet Bret, Paul, Dave, and the gang!!
- Susan Beebe
I see nobody will finish off that Old Time Candy. As your mothers likely told you, you can't have more until you finish what you already have!
- Louis Gray
Louis: we ate all of our favorites. Apparently no one wants to eat the wax lips. That was the best gift we have ever gotten, by the way. You rock, Louis.
- Bret Taylor
Bret, but shouldn't the interns _have_ to wear the wax lips as some form of initiation?
- Louis Gray
So that's where all my attention went! :-)
- Robert Scoble
"Mozilla will set the much-coveted record for most downloads in a day, because more than 8 million people (the actual total seems up for debate) downloaded Firefox 3 in the last 24 hours. Guinness still needs to verify the number, to make it official, but in any event it crushed Mozilla's high-end estimate of 5 million downloads. If you downloaded the browser (or even if you didn’t) -- you can get a certificate commemorating the day, which we're sure you'll treasure forever."
- Robert Seidman
I knew it!! woo, hoo! there was a LOT of buzz about this in my office today! Folks even print out the certificate you have here and posted them all over their cubes!
- Susan Beebe