That would pretty good actually. I hope they can integrate it into twitter experience, and make it part of their api as well - Shivanand Velmurugan via twhirl
well, they have to get code that works from somewhere. - Slobokan
I think it would be a smart move for them. - Alan Le
I hope not... Summize is great as it is. - Chris Thomson
Considering the email I got from Twitter's help dept. promoted Summize, I'm not surprised. - Erin Kotecki Vest
"I for one welcome our Twitter-Summize overlords." - Joe D'Andrea
Did anyone notice that Summize recently added translation links & language filters? Summize is a VERY well done webapp if you ask me. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Buy Summize? Why don't they just integrate the Summize API into Twitter - Just Kidding - Could be a good thing! - Eric Cedo
One company with no revenue buys another company with no revenue and whose existence depends on the first company? Why couldn't Twitter add the main Summize feature set in a few weeks if they could get their act together? - David Fry
valuations? I'm shorting Summize if this happens... - ryangraves
Summize would be doomed by being bought out... At least right now, they have the option of expanding to other networks such as friend feed, and brightkite, if they really wanted to! - Joel
They have to spend their money on something and they sure as hell aren't spending it on infrastructure at the moment. - Adam Helweh
I was thinking about that ever since I started using Summize... it makes perfect sense... - Manos Matsakis
They'd better buy Oracle technology for scalability! - Eric Sausse
I hope they buy up a few of the best apps that have been developed over the last year. They need to innovate, and it's people outside of Twitter who are developing the coolest stuff. Hopefully those people can help them integrate functionality into the site and bring new ideas! - Hillary Hartley
this is smart for twitter, but generally bad for summize -- although I don't think any of those guys are really high profile and a win like this would work in their favor if they were sick of swinging for the fences. Interesting to see how it plays out. - Tyler Willis
We'll need to think up new animals/concepts to signify the eventual 'Fail'
*I'm thinking of photoshopping up a chalkboard with an incorrect calculation* - Jake Fudge
They should just buy friendfeed instead... - Colin Brumelle
they'll buy a service that does what they claim to be able to do... smart.. - Absalon Isaac Prieto
this makes it interesting and open for someone else to potentially come in a build a summize-like search across the other networks like brightkite, plurk, friendfeed etc. - Brandon Zeuner
I'll be buying one to replace my N95 when my current mobile contract expires. Mobile Me not really a factor. - Graeme Shaw
No and no. Not worth the plan pricetag. I just want it for data, not voice. I love VZW too much. - Corvida via twhirl
Yes, and yes. I look forward to push e-mail/calendar on my 3G iPhone! - Granteezy via twhirl
Yes, and no. Not sure if I want Mobile .me at the price. But I'd love a 3G iPhone. - Jason Ziglar
Yes, definitely going to get the new iPhone. mobileme had no influence. mobileme, actually scares me a little bit. - felix
Yes I will be purchasing a 3G. I already have a Touch which I love, and a Blackjack which I hate. Already have dot MAC acct - Mark Nassal via twhirl
Yes getting iPhone, getting Mobile Me was not a driver, it's the other way around. I used to have .Mac and didn't find it worth it, and was looking for a reason to sign back up. Integration with iPhone is it. - Jason Kaneshiro
Yes, will purchase. MobileMe not as important as 3rd party apps (e.g. OmniFocus), though it will help by enabling realtime synchronization - Dan Byler via Alert Thingy
as soon as my Verizon contract is up I'm getting a 3G iphone... I could care less about MobileMe.. I keep all my contacts and events online so I have nothing to sync. - Stefan Hayden
Still haven't seen anything that more completely meets my daily needs than Windows Mobile Pro. - Aura Mae
For $200, I'd consider buying an iPhone and never activating the phone. - Rick Wolff
I got caught up in the hype yestarday/monday but really my WM6 phone kicks its ass in almost every way but looks. And I can develop for it for free, in .NET. - Soulhuntre via twhirl
Despite AT&T exclusivity, I plan to get an iPhone 3G. mobile .me not a factor (GPS/Apps are) but I'll try it. Tired of WM&RAZR. - Joe D'Andrea
I also am looking at buying a 3G but wil still have to carry my blackberry because I am tied to Verizon. - Jon Erickson via twhirl
I'm going to buy a iPhone 3G. MobileMe wasn't a deal-maker, but it definitely completes the package for me. - Ben Vaughan via twhirl
No one else was creeped out by this WWDC a little? Apple's a very closed ecosystem that's growing really, really rapidly... http://is.gd/v98 - is that too alarmist? - felix
I'm definitely upgrading but MobileMe is just gravy. - Akiva Moskovitz
Sold my iPhone last Friday in anticipation so yeah I'll be getting the 3G. =) - saeba
No and no. Don't think 3G will be that much faster and I have all my contacts, etc. in exchange already. Waiting for an iPhone that can hold several movies (32 GB). If I didn't have exchange, I'm not sure I would try mobile me, but if I left my company, I might try mobile me. - Jack Richins
Yes, I'm really looking forward to buying the iPhone 3G but I don't really care about Mobile Me, though I'll probably get it. - Mitch Wagner
3G will help data, but I'm concerned about battery life. lower price point for the phone will encourage a whole bunch of people to buy, but the rumor is that the data plans through AT&T will increase (I heard +$264 over life of contract, +$11/mo@24mo). 3rd party apps will be a game changer. I really like my iphone 1.0 except for EDGE so I'll probably get the new one. I think I'm turning mac-anese, I really think so. - grant
absolutely. I've been a .mac member for years. finally I have a reason to own it :). - Ainsworth Boyle via twhirl
+1 to grant for so perfectly sliding in that 80's reference. :) - felix
The $299 comes in Black too (http://www.apple.com/iphone/sp...). I'll probably get the $199 because I really haven't run into a problem with only 8GB on my current iPhone. - Scott Cropper
Very tempted to get a $199 iPhone now!! $299 one is even *more* tempting with 16GB storage - Susan Beebe
I haven't run into problems with my 8G iPhone either, however, I'm not loading apps on it. The apps will use space to store their stuff. I think the 16G for me. - awilliams via twhirl
Why can't we have a $299 iPhone in black? What's the point of this limitation? - Mo Jawhari
The 16GB $299 iPhone 3G does come in black (and white). The 8GB $199 iPhone 3G only comes in black. - Scott Cropper
while its tempting...the price...the features...im still a believer in ze ANDROID :P now digg me down :P - krz9000
Black, so I won't see minor blemishes and scratches as much as a white. - Mike Reynolds
actually, if its like my experience with iPods the white will look better over time than the black. Due to the reflection of the black it will show finger prints and scratches more so than the white. - Scott Cropper
I'm ready to buy the $199 now. But since I have to wait a month til July 11, it will give me more time to save enough to buy the $299, Sweet! - Danny M
I'd get the $299 phone; not sure about which color - Albert Willis
I'm not sure I'm going to get either. Even for $199, I'm not sure if it is compelling enough to upgrade from my current iPhone. - Andy Roth
seems like all those people who were worried about the cheap price ruining some of the exclusiveness of the device will opt for the white one :) - MG Siegler
I'll get the 16gb model in magenta. OK, just kidding. The 16gb in black. - Mike Reynolds
Wait! Twitter was back up? I keep missing it. - Harvey Simmons
Yes, Twitter was up for a bit, but I couldn't use it because it was too slow. - Morton Fox
This is getting past ridiculous; we wouldn't have sat still for such an appalling record of availability by another service. So, Dave, how about that distributed Twitter architecture you proposed, was there any interest to help set it up? - Asteris Masouras
Asteris -- yes there was interest, but generally the people with the products are scared of pissing Twitter off. This I don't understand -- I think the Twitter folk would welcome a bit of redundancy. Everything they've said publicly and done with the Twitter API indicates that they believe federation is in their future, but mostly the tech industry is scared. Where are the swashbucklers? Where's the adventure in venture capital? :-) - Dave Winer
I'll believe that Twitter Inc. hearts federation when I see them take definite steps in that direction. If Microsoft & Yahoo are anything to go by, corps that live & die by the mass adoption of their services are anything but cool with federating & open standards. Only their users can keep them on the straight & narrow, or provide scaffolding for alternatives. As to your quasi-rhetorical questions about the guts of the industry, I wonder too :-) - Asteris Masouras
How can I find out if you've subscribed to my FriendFeed? - Lawrence Liu via twhirl
According to the little bubble, not me. Even though you said the other day I was being added to the World Wide Talk Show. ;-) Oops, can't press Enter for a newline. What I was going to say, prior to the Post button getting unexpectedly pressed, is that I cannot imagine following 20,000 (or even some fraction of that) on FF. It's gotta be tough as it is on Twitter. - Joanmarie
Guessing that comments are the way to let you know :) - Jed White
Holy crap. You've practically got the SNN goin' on - Scoble News Network ?? You will all be featured this week on Fast Company TV - Submit bio to ... - Charlie Anzman
This is the greatest thing to happen to anyone ever! Cheesecake for everybody. - Akiva Moskovitz
I let you know via Twitter, perhaps this is more appropriate. - bill shamam
IF you are able to WITHSTAND fair portion of Russian (sorry, but I try to bring here my community from Russian segment of livejournal.com after buyout disaster) and/or stream of Nokia-tablet/Maemo/etc related-stuff and/or a lot of bitch about this and that... http://friendfeed.com/silpol ;) - silpol
Robert, I appreciate your efforts, but I'm afraid that if I follow you (and you follow me in return), I'll have to deal with a lot of noise, and a lot of hype. Once you get worked up about something, you have this need to talk about it all the time, and to impose your point of view (ex: FaceBook). That's why I unsubscribed from your blog a while back. I couldn't deal with it any more. You shot down two of my comments without even bothering to consider them. Take this for what it's worth, no hard feelings. - Raoul Pop
You're not subscribed to me, here, but anything I have to say that might be interesting to you, I say in a comment anyway... I'm not very talkative, but I enjoy watching your conversation! - Kenneth LeFebvre
One would have thought this would have happened a long time ago, rather than to keep going on and exhaust both parties both mentally and financially. - cmiper
I find it hard to believe HRC will concede until the DNC at the very earliest. Her self-interest needs outweigh the Democratic party at-large. - Scott Jarkoff
As an outsider....she looks a bit mental doesn't she. That forced smile creeps me out. I'm sure she actually very nice....but eeegggghhhh. - Chris Nixon via twhirl
Yes Chris, the media always picks the *best* photos the can find to represent her. ;-) - cmiper
This just makes me very sad today Right now I only see 1 way I will not vote for McCain in November - sorry, there is just something about Obama I do not trust, and I hope in the next few years I'm not sitting here saying, at least I didn't vote for him just like I didn't vote for his predecessor. :( And, I can assure you I am not the only one who feels this way. - Paula Hawk
I know what you mean Paula. How can you trust someone who refuses PAC and special interest money, has the courage not to pander to voters with a bogus gas tax repeal, and opposed an immoral war from the very start. This guy sounds dangerous. He might actually do something in office. - Leo Laporte
Love the sarcasm, Leo, allows me to see you in a new light and reinforces to me that I've been right all along to keep my viewpoints to myself. So sorry to have gotten involved in this HRC bashing. :( - Paula Hawk
Obama is the only one I trust to do the right thing. HRC will just say anything to get the vote, but she'll continue the same failed politics. McSame will just give us 4 more years of Bush's politics. - Mike Cohen via Alert Thingy
Mike, I see your point with McCain, but in my eyes it is him or throw my vote completely away on Nader.... Those same failed politics you are speaking of worked very well in the 1990s - for those of you old enough to recall, who did we all say was running the White House at that time anyhow? I was working with the federal government during this time, and I recall the amazement at the budget simply balancing! In an article that I read summarizing Obama's appearance on Meet the Press over this past weekend, the first point that was made was that Obama claimed he has the DNA to be the better president, because he is descended from both Caucasion and African ancestors. What kind of crap is that? I couldn't read any further. I only stopped to read it because I knew I needed to get used to the idea that he was going to beat HRC - but no, I can't vote for someone who is going to say that their ANCESTRY makes them a better candidate. - Paula Hawk
I'm sorry you see my post as "Hillary bashing." In fact, it is not. I am sad to see HRC go. I would have gladly voted for her had she won the nomination. My real problem is with the notion that since, for some undefined reason you "don't trust" Obama, you would consider casting a vote for McCain. Set aside McCain's self-professed ignorance on the economy, and hawkish position on Iraq. The next president will fill at least two, maybe three Supreme Court seats, giving him or her a huge and lasting impact. - Leo Laporte
Paula, I think you misunderstood the statement. Obama is in a a unique position to change the face of the Presidency because he's been on 'both sides of the fence' and could unite the country like no other. To me, that's very attractive because that's exactly what this country needs... A leader that people can rally behind. I just happen to agree with his political stances as well, with lobbyist being the scourge of progression. HRC is 'old politics'... McCain is really old politics. - Vince DeGeorge
I wouldn't vote for HRC if she got the nomination. She's every bit as bad as McSame. In that case I would stay home on election day rather than vote for either of them. - Mike Cohen via Alert Thingy
Paula let's get it right: "You know, I'm somebody who is born to a white mother and a, and an African father. It's in my DNA to believe that we can bring this country together and that the people are the same under the skin. And that's what I've been fighting for all my life, and, you knowto a large degree, everything that I've done as a community organizer, everything that I've done as a state legislator and a United States senator embodies those ideals that we can get people who look differently or speak differently or come from different experiences to recognize what they have in common. - Leo Laporte
Paula, I think it's pretty obvious now that you're a crypto-Republican, misquoting Obama to fuel racist mistrust on McCain's behalf. I expect we'll see a lot more of that through November. If you really are a HRC supporter, I would hope you would chose this time to start talking issues and stop feeding these specious doubts. - Leo Laporte
Good point, Leo. It's great for everyone to have their own way of looking at this race, and some people will, unfortunately, decide to vote against their best interests for whatever reason - hell, middle-class Republicans have been doing it for years - but the idea of putting words into Obama's mouth simply in order to try to bash him with them and, as you point out, fuel racist mistrust, is frankly despicable, if not downright Rovian. - Brad Farris via Alert Thingy
Very interesting to see this much discussion on this topic. I'm in a very conservative state, (ND) and many Republicans here are looking to Obama as a chance. Most don't trust McCain and they surely don't trust HRC. Every time anyone has ever asked me why Obama I've said. "It's a difference in how they conduct politics." HRC and McCain represent old Washington politics. Honestly everything I've heard from my friends involved in the Democratic Party they are suspecting this will get drug out to the National Convention. I really hope that is not the case as the sheer amount of negative press that each side is stirring up is giving more easy fuel for the GOP. - Bryan
WOW I've been called a lot of things in my life, but never a Republican or a crypto-Republican. I said I read an article discussing Obama being on TV, I did not watch the show, I did not read the article any further, but I know that the post I was reading was written by someone who has staunchly supported Obama for the past several months. Call me names if you must. I hope it makes you all feel better. - Paula Hawk
Vince, wanted to make sure I thank you, from the direct quote, yes, I must have misread something, or something was miswritten. And, I just wanted to add, that no one has even bothered much to give me a reason to want to vote for Obama, just to not associate with most of you involved with this conversation. - Paula Hawk
Paula, the most important part of this whole affair is discussion. It's fantastic to see people "talk" politics and really be involved. No, name calling is not necessary in any case. If this election has taught us anything, it's that people, when pushed, are VERY passionate about what they believe in. This debate, no matter which side you stand is very healthy and much better than the apathy that resulted in Bush's re-election. I urge everyone to go beyond the "media" and really look. - Vince DeGeorge
Thanx Vince. In all seriousness, I have waited 8 years for HRC to run, and dammit, I'm pissed as hell that she has blown it the way she has. I know she is better than these silly 'faux pas' she has been making over the past several months. I also know that it is time to accept that HRC has blown it, I accepted that fact before the PA primaries. :( Since then, I have tried to read positive blog posts about Obama, but I keep finding things like http://online.wsj.com/article/... - Paula Hawk
I like you Leo, I do. You work hard and your a good guy and you do a lot for new media. But honestly, you have to be kidding. I didn't realize anyone really used the term "crypto-anything" as more than a punchline for paranoia. Sadly it just adds to the growing impression I have that your biases really do cloud your commentary on technical (and now political) issues. - Soulhuntre
As an Obama supporter.Odd as it may be, I actually appreciate the "intense" campaign HRC ran. It served to prepare him for the assaults he will likely be the target of all the way until November. Not only that but it gave us, the voters, the opportunity to see him operate under pressure and address some of the most volatile topics in American society. So for that, hats off to her. That being said, it's time to step aside and work towards unifying the Democratic Party. - Geoff Schultz
Paula completely misquoted Obama. He didn't say his DNA would make him a better president he said: "You know, I'm somebody who is born to a white mother and a, and an African father. It's in my DNA to believe that we can bring this country together and that the people are the same under the skin." Completely different than what you heard. I don't understand when people say they don't like Obama, and have no reason to back it up. BTW, transcript is here from meet the press: http://blogs.suntimes.com/swee... - Patrick Binder
Patrick, it's a feeling. Can't help it. We all have feelings and we all have our right to feel whatever it is that we feel. Great thing about living in America is that we have the right to express those feelings as we wish. Thank you for the direct quote again, someone else beat you to the punch and slapped me down for misinterpreting a third party review of the interview. You want something to discuss, please see the Wall Street Journal link I gave above. Or, give me a reason YOU like Obama over HRC.. - Paula Hawk
I don't need a soundbite reason to distrust someone... humans make judgments on many, many factors. Tone of voice, cadence, word choice, facial expressions, eye movement, body language.... further, we refine those judgments the more we see of someone. There is also the totality of integrating all that into all the knowledge we have of someone. - Soulhuntre
My feelings about Obama including my distrust come from the totality of my experience with him, not a sentence or a soundbite. Just like many who find him charismatic do so from the totality of their "Obama experience". Fortunately few people judge someone only on the words they actually say - or we would all be trivially easy to fool. - Soulhuntre
Paula: Obama seems to get it. He talks about and I hope he could deliver the ability to unify this nation because it is severely fractured. Who knows if it could be done, but atleast he is willing to try. That is the big reason. I also like that he is running a more clean/positive campaign than HRC. His campaign is also being run very well. AND he doesn't have his hands as deep in lobbyist's pockets. - Patrick Binder
Who the hell am I kidding...I am actually basing my vote on the best looking website...and Obama is clearly ahead of the competition. HRC's website is better now, but is still too cluttered. THESE are the real issues ;) I like HRC, but her campaigning tactics have turned me away. - Patrick Binder
"My wife and I had dinner there once. A truly outstanding experience. No wonder it has five stars. Epinions.com has a level review/description: http://www.epinions.com/conten... Given the atmosphere (jacket and tie for the men please), the music (a live harpist when we were there) and the menu (you won't find chicken fingers and fries on it, and definitely no Sticky Mickeys) I can't imagine kids having that good a time. They'd probably wish they were at the Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue over in Fort Wilderness instead. C'mon Associated Press: This is a non-issue and not newsworthy (especially compared to other events IMO)." - Joe D'Andrea
"From Eric Richie on the Adium Blog: "Guys, listen, you're nuts if you think we're just going to drop all the work we've put in on the native video implementations. [MeBeam Integration] was a side project that Andy was working on. He wanted to release it so he did. It won't in any way detract from the other work we're doing. It's not meant to replace the real thing, simply something fun in the meantime."" - Joe D'Andrea
