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Book review: “Yes We Did – Obama’s social media strategy" - http://sm4good.com/2009...
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Thank you for this link!
- E-Advocate Network
Here's what happens to your organic search traffic when Google decides to “penalize” your (legitimate, non-spam, long-running, good-citizen) site for some unknown reason...
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how are you going about it to audit any red flags?
- fijidaddy
Please detail the steps you take to find the root cause - it might benefit us all.
- TrafficBug
So far I've done these things: 1. reviewed Google's webmaster guidelines to try to determine my sin; 2. wrapped the home page's "You need flash to view this site" text in a <noscript> element (which it did not have before, I suppose this could suddenly, after three years, have been flagged as "cloaking" by an overzealous bot); 3. Ran my page through the W3 HTML validator (and there were...
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- Anthony Citrano
Ugh, I hope you get an answer soon.
- Heather Solos
How are your Bing/other referrals? Have they been similarly affected? Is there any chance your site was hacked and you haven't found the offending code? Hope you get some answers from Google soon.
- WorldofHiglet
@WoH: thanks; other referrals are fine and I still rank extremely high for the key terms on Bing, Yahoo, etc. But in Google (this is for my photography portfolio) I have completely disappeared (as in, not even in top 100) for terms on which I was previously in the top 3 (and very often #1).
- Anthony Citrano
From everything I've witnessed & experienced, SEO for your traffic is NOT a business model. If you have something meaningful to sell, you don't need to rely on "free" traffic. If you get it it's nice, but that cannot be what makes or breaks your offer(s). Worse, since SEO often takes a long time to succeed decisively (if it works, for however long it works), it actually pulls people from going for proof of concept NOW, this week, this month. Which IMO is the key to everything.
- Alex Schleber
SEO is in some ways an avoidance strategy: You don't really want to find out the naked truth about the viability of your offer, so you'd rather spend months trying to figure out how to get "free" traffic to see if you can't get a few takers that way. Yes, I know I'm prob. going to get flamed by some successful SEO's for saying this, but really think about it: SEO is by definition a trick. Do you want your business to depend upon a trick? One that Google can more often than not make go...poof...GONE.
- Alex Schleber
Thanks, Alex. Interesting advice, if broad - and sadly, not really applicable here. Probably my bad for including it in the SEO room.
- Anthony Citrano
Alex if your product is content then SEO is a business model. It's not possible to say let's make a ton of money selling content ads and then not have SEO matter and then take no responsibility when you destroy someone. Where there's no linkage there's no responsibility.
- Todd Hoff
6 Reasons Why LinkedIn Is So Critical In A Job Search - http://impacthiringsolutions.com/careerb...
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Quote: "In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes." - http://www.steverubel.com/quote-i...
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...If they're lucky.
- Rob Schieber
YouTube Increases File Size Limit To 2GB, Now Allows Direct HD Embeds And Links - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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"By the way, I’m uploading HD videos done with my Canon 5D Mark II DSLR at http://www.youtube.com/scoblei... — awesome quality."
- Robert Scoble
Cool! I'll check 'em out!
- Fred Davis
Plenty of comments on that Techcrunch piece point up the fact that uploading a 2GB file would for most people take a very long time. Even on fast ADSL connections upload speeds are dreadfully slow. And then there is the bandwidth to consider if you are capped in any way. We don't all live in South Korea.
- Gilbert Harding
Excellent!
- Fred Davis
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Is that yours?
- David Damore
How cool is that?!?!
- Rochelle Veturis
SMCSac Raffle at tomorrows Making Video Social event includes online classes Linkedin 101, Facebook 101 by @socialmediapath and @marketin
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Pixar Confirms Monsters Inc Sequel | /Film - http://www.slashfilm.com/2009...
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"Mike Wazowski!"
- Dan Hsiao
from Bookmarklet
That'll make a lot of kids and adults happy. :)
- James Stratford
Hooray! My mom just asked me last week why they hadn't done a Monsters Inc sequel. She'll be happy!
- Felicia Yue
I wonder if Pixar would have done a Monsters sequel (or any sequels for that matter) if they hadn't been acquired by Disney.
- Jess Lee
Yay! Boo!
- ♥patricia♥
I <3 Boo! ^_^ What a cutie! By the way, will she be in the sequel? Curious to know what the story will be and which characters will return.
- April Buchheit
Jess - they did Toy Story 2 before being acquired. They've always said they weren't averse to sequels if they had a really great story to tell. And finally, Disney may have purchased Pixar but it seemed to me that it was so that Pixar could "take over" Disney animation and not the other way around. So in other words, maybe/maybe not :-).
- invariant - farewell FF
YESSSSS!!!!!!
- Jeannie Choi
YAY! I LOVE THIS!
- joey
Cool! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
w00t!
- David Cook
:D
- WorldofHiglet
It's been my favorite Pixar movie to date. I hope the sequel doesn't do something stupid with the lovely characters.
- Aaron D'Souza
Great movie for all ages. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Gonna be hard to top the original :)
- Bwana ☠
invariant - I sort of vaguely thought that they did Toy Story 2 because it was Disney's IP and Disney was going to do a sequel (straight to video) with or without Pixar.
- Andrew C
@Andrew C - That's how I read it in the book "The Pixar Touch". It was sort of a threat that Disney was going to do it by themselves and Lasseter came back and took over.
- Andrew Smith
I really hope this is done in Pixar's soon-to-be Vancouver studio and I have *anything* to do with it.
- Andrew Smith
But Pixar said the Vancouver studio would be for shorts. Ain't nothing wrong with that, "Partly Cloudy" was terrific.
- Andrew C
My mind map for today's talk to CIOs. What else should I add? Keep in mind got 30 minutes. Dicuss here please:
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In the room are CIOs from Home Depot, Pepsi, Johnson and Johnson, Prudential, Bechtel, etc.
- Robert Scoble
Also see here: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... for a discussion that we did earlier about what I should tell CIOs.
- Robert Scoble
Theme of my talk is "the 2010 Web."
- Robert Scoble
I don't see XMIND :)
- Tim McDougall
Because of time constraints I'm trying to NOT be comprehensive, but just give a taste of the best of the tech industry innovation lately and what it could mean to their businesses.
- Robert Scoble
ask them how they are measuring all this stuff.
- Brian Watkins
Brian: will do, but in many ways we are too early for measuring. I bet they haven't even heard of a lot of this stuff.
- Robert Scoble
Nice, you popped in Atlassian and Socialtext, good call. Mint though? Bit early isn't it? >> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps...
- Nick Wade
I mean, how many CIOs do you see here on friendfeed.
- Robert Scoble
Are ou going to mention backtype or ubervu in the community section?
- dthree
fun stats on why collaboration: http://tinyurl.com/ch83jy
- Carrie Krinock
Nick: that's probably true, but they signed up a million people so are an example of a consumer service that's done well.
- Robert Scoble
David: I might mention them, but I'm not trying to be comprehensive.
- Robert Scoble
I think open standards need a mention since Microformats is now even supported by Google. Automating to extract information from structured data brings great opportunities.
- Burcu Dogan
Analytics
- George Dearing
Scoble: I think you have to have Twitter, they all know it but it has to be there, it is a platform that engages and ties with a lot of what is in your talk
- Lou Paglia
Mobile is way under-emphasized... I think that's gonna start getting bigger and bigger and bigger...
- Joel Haasnoot
Joel: I agree, I could spend 16 hours just on mobile. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert: fair comment re Mint.
- Nick Wade
++Joel completely agree. mobile is bigger than ever now and 2010
- Lou Paglia
Have you added calibration tools for product demos and training ?
- William Lopez
William: no, what kind of tools are you thinking of?
- Robert Scoble
Have fun, remember most people hate sitting in their seats more than 20 minutes, make they get up and down a little. Ask one of them to come up and do pushups.
- Halley Suitt
Halley: um, I'm not THAT brave! :-)
- Robert Scoble
ome emphasis on Web Services - and agree on the Mobile detail required!
- Manoj Menon
Just don't let them challenge YOU to a push-up battle ... no fun, even for me.
- Halley Suitt
could have major topic not about tools but "paradigm shifts", the breakdown of the walls between the enterprise and the rest of the web, 2010 CIOs will contend more than ever with not being able to put four walls around their corporate constituents
- Lou Paglia
I underplay mobile because I could spend hours on just that. Heheh. I have 30 minutes.
- Robert Scoble
Lou: absolutely! That will be a subtext to everything.
- Robert Scoble
Hmm, but mobile is moving more and more to tailor-made-mobile, not just a bare bones version of the website: maybe that's a paradigm shift you could mention.
- Joel Haasnoot
If CIO's aren't careful, paradigm shifts become paradigm shafts, as they take a sudden beating in a marketplace.
- Halley Suitt
there is the issue of "mixed discovery" I am missing; a ping pong of subjects and peoples when you use twitter e.g.; you go from @person to #issue to @ person etc ... - that is a new kind of serendipity; could be used to have new ideas about marketing
- Willi Schroll
You forgot to show the Oprah-fication of any modern technology.
- Pete Barry
I am missing the integration bit ... not sure it really exists yet. The problem is that this is way too many tools for any one company. so possibly just a missing item.
- Oliver Thylmann
@halley they can either be part of the movement and coach their organizations through the changes as a thought leader or many can continue to try to put up "sand bags" and there is where the your term, shaft, will come.
- Lou Paglia
What about Hulu under video? For me it's an important piece. :)
- James Furlo
James: good catch.
- Robert Scoble
I just gave a similar talk here in LA yesterday. My take on it as a former CIO is how the consumer/general internet systems are tackling the problems that have plagued enterprise. From single sign on to data portability, transparency, collaboration and real time communication. They need to start looking at these systems as the model for the new enterprise in 2010 and beyond.
- Jerry Schuman
In cloud, what about development availability, S3, EC2, gist, gnip, the glue movement, shared data center and server resources (there's your Rackspace plug)
- Lou Paglia
Boxee might be a good topic as they are trying to make it a media player with a social web component.
- dthree
Lou: that's another area I underplayed on purpose because I could spend an hour there. Personally it'll lead us down a rathole and keep us from talking about the bigger trends. If they start deploying anything new they'll need hosting and we'll be involved in the conversation then.
- Robert Scoble
David: Boxee is a good one to discuss.
- Robert Scoble
an overall theme is the shift in technology moving consumer to enterprise rather than the other way around. For companies its more important than ever to look at what startups/small biz are doing vs thinking "they'll be using my big system in 5 years".
- William Kapes
Should Boxee really be on a CIO's radar at this point, is convergence of web with the digital home even part of the CIO conversation, should it be?
- Lou Paglia
Sometimes I wonder if CIO's really grok the way the folks they support WORK day to day. Sometimes we're at home w/a crying baby, sometimes on the road w/customers, sometimes in the office. As a sales marketing geek for years, I always wanted to scream, "Hey guys, I'm in a rental car on a frigging windy road north of Portland in a thunderstorm trying to connect to the system to get the new pricing sheet, do you GET my life? Help me out here!"
- Halley Suitt
Are you using MindManager for your mindmaps, Robert?
- Rohit
Lou: good point, gotta stay focused a BIT on business, but the changes in TV do have implications. I just was at Adobe and they are enabling 1080p high def to both browsers and TV.
- Robert Scoble
Rohit: yes, this is done with MindManager.
- Robert Scoble
The ideas behind technologies like Wolfram|Alpha and Hunch
- Mike Smith
Robert - Here's a Mindmeister Mind Map that I've been working on here and there for some time now - I don't have geolocation-centric sites listed, but otherwise, this is a handy look at the social-sphere: http://www.mindmeister.com/maps...
- Enrique Gutierrez
Mogulus in the live video section? And why not other sites, like BlipTV or others, for those who edit and upload higher quality videos that are shareable?
- Ken Kaplan
Since these are CIO's you can talk about how sometimes even "outlaw" technologies can find a place in the modern workplace. There are companies using BitTorrent to push out updates among sites, saves on bandwidth since it goes distributed. But I think the biggest focus of your talk, since its you :), should be the influence of the social and real-time web and its impact. Again, your strength and you've only got 30 mins
- William Kapes
@Lou Paglia, got that right.
- Halley Suitt
Ken: good point. I love Blip. But again I wasn't trying to be comprehensive.
- Robert Scoble
topline think this may be too granular for most CIOs - this group is broad predictions for the path + a few examples. Functionally expand microblogging add Twitter then let niche apps flow from there.
- Carol Lynn Martens
Doesn't LinkedIn apply. There is a lot of professional interaction and the Answers section for mentoring.
- Alan Eggleston
CIOs are going to be most interested in security, and not necessarily hampering the discussion (some will), but rather how they can track what people are saying within the company, and how they can better train those that use social media in the company. At least that was my experience speaking to a similar group of CIOs in Dallas last year.
- Jesse Stay
Alan: I was on purpose leaving out older social networks like Linked In, Twitter, and Facebook. I want to focus on what's disruptive.
- Robert Scoble
not sure if this was asked above...but will there be a video of this, Robert?
- Carlos Ayala
Carlos, nope, sorry. Usually with a small intimate group (only about 20) they want to have off the record conversations.
- Robert Scoble
Unless I missed something there may be a gap in terms of viral video (YouTube, etc), shared image hosting and slideshows, and even presentation sharing (SlideShare, AuthorSTREAM)--with literacy and attention spans down these become key communication components IMHO on two levels -- ease of use (post once link anywhere) and ability to comment and rate to build communities of passion.
- Tom Bunzel
Interesting to see that the OS isn't important to the discussion. Mobile is an overlay of most of what you have. What about talking about desktop apps built on AIR and Silverlight?
- Jim Ierley
Quick question robert: which programs do you use on your mac and iphone to access friendfeed?
- Rohit
Where is Vimeo?.. Hulu..?
- Oğuz Serdar
What about Evernote in the "Cloud and Collaboration" topic? It's ubiquitous... web, desktop, iPhone, Blackberry, etc.
- Kurt Rosenkranz
Roger that Robert, understood. Thanks.
- Carlos Ayala
Azure, App Engine, Rack Space Cloud, Amazon EC3, etc... Something had to run all those things in your mind map.
- Jeff Weber
Google Apps under both Office and Collaboration
- Scott McMullan
You can tell them: because of the "cloud" most of them won't have a job in 2 years, because of social-realtime web, most of their businesses won't make it through the depression
- Tweet Feeds
I know you're trying to keep the map slim, but: Google Voice, drop.io, and the mention of Evernote on iphone - the snapnote feature (mobile image capture/upload + OCR + desktop, web/feed access).
- Micah Wittman
Say hi you are on screen
- Robert Scoble
Hi CIOs!
- Jesse Stay
Hi everbody.
- dthree
Jesse the CIO of your church says hi!
- Robert Scoble
hi everyone
- Brian Watkins
Robert tell Joel I said hi back - you two should do lunch some time and have him show you some of the stuff they're doing.
- Jesse Stay
Hope you guys blocked out a few hours of your time. Robert kind of talks a lot.
- Jerry Schuman
Hi CIOs, the smarts are moving to the edges of the organization so dust off your resumes, your roles are obsolete
- Tweet Feeds
I think there will be more mixture between real life and online life. Sharing identities & connections will be as common as exchanging business cards right now. And, I predict, you will be tagging real-life objects with your phone (or your My name is E connector) to put them as favorites online. Or to ask for a product sample with one simple motion (thanks to nfc and rfid). So, 'sharing identities / mixing real and virtual' deserves some attention... Good luck!
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
Hi from the Netherlands. Just to point out you need more focus in your MindMap on international collaboration tools :)
- Rene de Vries
Robert, perhaps touch on how they plan to serve the business / marketing side more effectively? Maximize available man hours, evolve prioritization criteria, etc.
- Jeff
Oh. And great to see Wakoopa on the list there. 'You are what you use' is a pretty powerful social indicator.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
How about adding VMware under Cloud and Communities.
- Shobhana
@Home Depot: I'm no Luddite, but I did not at all like the automated checkouts at first. Now I'm coming around - last week had the quickest turn-around shopping experience at a hardward store that I can remember. Sorry, back on topic now :)
- Micah Wittman
i would add geezeo next to mint and perhaps txtblaster next to tatango
- Allen Stern
Live mesh,live office for collaboration.
- ashish
Nice job, Robert. $1 to first CIO (other than me) from that room who responds to this message. :)
- Joel Dehlin
Joel you're one of the *only* CIOs I know that uses FriendFeed. You've been using it for over a year now I think, haven't you?
- Jesse Stay
from email
Jesse: I think there may be a few other ones onto friendfeed, but I think I might have shocked them with a look at my real time feed. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Joel, nice meeting you, I'll find out the answer to your question. Can you follow me here on friendfeed so I can DM you?
- Robert Scoble
Don't forget about Dropbox under "cloud and collaboration". One of my favorite tools by far.
- Brandon Titus
Under Consumer, I would add a major value and coupon site like RedPlum.com personally as companies like Home Depot and Pepsi can relate to this.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
@scobleizer Awesome mindmap. Why does youtube not make the map under video?
- Kevin Murray
perty, good job much better than a power p prezzo
- sofarsoShawn
Kevin: now that I've given a speech I need to go through and make it much more complete. For the speech I was going for disruptive stuff that was changing right now and that would jog my memory. As it was we didn't get through the complete list. 30 minutes flies by.
- Robert Scoble
like that I could read your mindmap on my iphone - funny though when I saw web 2010 I thought - ah robert is providing a glimpse of the future to disconnected cio's - then realized that's a little over 7 months away - wow time flies :-p
- mike "glemak" dunn
mike: and keep in mind that the car industry has changed the definition of a year anyway. I'm getting my 2010 Prius in a week or two.
- Robert Scoble
true
- mike "glemak" dunn
To adopt any of this nascent social media, there must be an almost immediate ROI. Otherwise, it's nothing more than an amusement.
- Don Bonaddio
D@mn Don! On the noesy!
- Arleen Anderson
Don: there is a lot of money in amusements. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
after reading this thread "better" - there have been many cto's on friendfeed for awhile now, different dna than cio's - justsayn :-p
- mike "glemak" dunn
you covered all that in 30mins? Or was this the handout.
- Ryan Stanley
Ryan: we got to one or two nodes. Heheh. I don't do handouts.
- Robert Scoble
You forgot Aviary.
- Mike Shields
Oh, and we should probably discuss it instead :)
- Mike Shields
Did you find most of your audience were already Web 2.0 savvy?
- Ryan Stanley
BBC iPlayer?
- Rupert Watson
ROI - Robert - is there a slide that tells them why? Jack Welch would tell you that if you are not measuring this you are not managing it. The only way to persuade grey beards like me is to show them why it is worthwhile otherwise in this climate more than any other time - experiments for the sake of just learning and playing will get short shrift.
- Simon Rogers
Scobes: thanks for the reply on the youtube q. your mindmap is my new "must understand" check list. thanks again for all your contribution.
- Kevin Murray
What about integrating home - all the appliance at home if we can control it from the net. .....security has too be very good.
- anamika
I'm curious as to how the CIO of Home Depot responded. Being a B&M hardware store, they aren't very big on Tech (ask me about using and deploying Office 97 in 2004 *shudder*). When I was there, there was lots of energy going in to SAP and other ERP related products/projects but not much energy going into making sure employees could use those tools. I digress...so how did it go?
- EricaJoy
EricaJoy: I don't remember a specific response from him. There was some of the usual pushback about why I would share so much of my life online. Other than that I was impressed that they were very literate on the topics and services I showed.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I don't see sync and version control products on your mind map. I think they are getting important for information management.
- Arvind
any chance you'd post final draft - maybe in original form (not pdf/jpg?) also - camtasia recording of presentation could be fun
- Courtney Engle
Don't see SlideShare it'd be handy under Collaboration and if not on this presentation perhaps on one with a focus on the next stage or under implementation strategies.
- James Stratford
open web identity: add Firefox (with 200+ downloads...); Jammer is spelled Yammer; add AWS at cloud services; I would definitely move Ning to 'community' (it is also realtime; but first of all it is the most important community building platform; very popular in the Netherlands); Google Apps for collaboration
- Jeroen De Miranda
Robert, if you have time to answer quickly, are you using the Mac or Windows version or both?
- Gregg Morris
Gregg Windows version
- Robert Scoble
i am late for this but, i wud also add twine and streamy..not sure where though. i thought i saw analytics up there...definitely a must. also really confused as to how evernote helps brands connect with consumers.
- Freddie Benjamin
Was this speech recorded? Would be good to see it if possible.
- Chet Thaker
Chet: nope, sorry.
- Robert Scoble
No worries Robert. Will have to try and catch one of speeches live. You're coming to the UK in July I notice from your Dopplr.
- Chet Thaker
just saw you have the apps room in there, did you get a few words in about it?
- Zee.
Zee: we talked about friendfeed but I don't think we spoke specifically about that room.
- Robert Scoble
You left out Search, Commerce, Mobile - no? All of these are critical business drivers, platforms, customer channels. All are shifting, seismically under their enterprise feet.
- Thom Kennon
Wolfram|Alpha
- Andrew Eglinton
David Letterman Slams Chevy Volt, Tesla CEO Agrees - http://gas2.org/2009...
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Unfortunately for Volt there right. It's a tale of the big 3. not seeing past step 2.
- amarquart
I just bought a 2010 Prius. Why not a Tesla? Well, for one, I didn't want to wait. For two, I can't afford a $60,000 car. For three, I sometimes need to drive further than 240 miles. The Volt can do that, the Tesla can't without plugging it in again. For four, the Tesla is unproven and from a very small company without a track record (I really like Tesla, though, and if the car were...
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- Robert Scoble
Is Social Media an Industry? - http://mashable.com/2009...
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"It’s no secret that social media has been blasting off like a rocket ship. TwitterTwitter reviewsTwitter reviews and FacebookFacebook reviewsFacebook reviews only scratch the surface of social media’s growth. Three years ago, the term barely existed. Today, social media encompasses social networks, mobile platforms, information sharing, online video, and far more. There are now thousands of professionals and companies that are deeply involved in the social media sphere."
- ~C4Chaos
from Bookmarklet
The social media undercurrent goes against the flow of traditional business methods - http://www.relationship-economy.com/#
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"The social media undercurrent goes against the flow of traditional business methods"
- Jay Deragon
from Bookmarklet
good thoughts Jay
- Thomas Power
Mashable’s Weekly Web Events and Social Media Conference Guide - http://mashable.com/2009...
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Good list of upcoming events. I will be speaking at three of these.
- Steve Rubel
Google launches a sort of Digg for money saving ideas - http://www.inquisitr.com/19371...
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RT @ryancoleman: Love when corps have fun with each other in their marketing... New BlackBerry ad takes shot at Apple: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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What made advertising and media work for 100 years and why the Web needs to copy it. Tomorrow, the HOW. - http://dawnsplan.wordpress.com/2009...
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Step 3...profit
- Josh Haley
Step 4...retire to someplace warm. :)
- Dawn
So many potentials for acronyms here, depending on the order... TAME, TEAM, MATE, MEAT...
- Louis Gray
No, No, No... Advertising has to be Entertaining because when it is, we watch it and discuss it
- Bastard Operator From FF
+1 for Louis LOL I like MEAT best, though TEAM is probably more apropos
- Dawn
Sean, it helps for advertising to be entertaining, but you wouldn't want to discuss the dozens of ads you see everyday. Besides, entertaining ads are often ineffective because we fail to absorb what the product even is. What advertising "has to be" most is relevant.
- Dawn
oh my gosh, facebook is for families - http://www.paulallen.net/using-f...
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I'm curious who the oldest active FriendFeed user is.
- Bruce Lewis
The oldest person I know on Facebook is the most rockingnest 81 year old I've ever met. She's been trying to get her kids (48 - 60) on FB for 3 years. They finally did in the past few months and she had to block them.
- Admiral Anika
Anika, LOL!!!
- Helen Sventitsky
She got them to try FB and then had to block them?!? There is so much about that story that I want to know....!
- WorldofHiglet
All I know via IM is that she had said that her "little turds" finally got on FB, and all they did was ask how things worked. They were appalled that she uploaded pics of them as kids and that she had hundreds of friends that they didn't know. She spoke to her grandkids and they were all, "Yeah, I blocked them." so she did too. :)
- Admiral Anika
LMAO - that is pure GOLD! :D
- WorldofHiglet
People you will meet in high school - http://graphjam.com/2009...
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That few douchebags? The chart lies!
- Morton Fox
Some of the teachers could be douchebags also.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Yup. highschool = douchebagosphere
- j1m
I always thought of it a a douchopolis.
- Andy Bakun
actually LOL when I saw this. hilarious chart.
- Chieze Okoye
45 Blog Post Ideas That Always Generate Buzz - http://thefuturebuzz.com/2009...
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Wise words - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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On it!
- Christopher Harley
Excellent advice. But what happens when I get hungry?
- Mike Nayyar
so...Live everyday without biting people???
- Bwana ☠
Amazing :)
- Michael Forian
Live everyday with a thirst for BRAINSSSSSS
- Mike Nayyar
words to live by..or living dead by
- (jeff)isageek
HAHA YES. YESSS.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
I do that already.
- Steven Perez
But I like biting people . . .
- B. Hatin
"You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."
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Cool thing about events that start early is that they end early. How many times have I had a full night by midnight? Lessons for Cinderella.
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No Snickering - That Road Sign Means Something Else - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
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Heh, what a great article.
- Tyson Key
In Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (Canada!) they have Ragged Ass Road. The city got tired of tourists stealing the street sign, so they sell 'em at the visitor center. I've got one....
- Pat Rice
Thanks, Dave. I laughed outloud.
- John Sumser
semantic history of the word Zen - http://www.shinzen.org/shinsub...
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Happy 50th Birthday Motown: A History In Pictures - http://www.gigwise.com/article...
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January 12, Motown celebrates its 50th anniversary. Gigwise takes a look back at the legendary imprint from its humble beginnings in Detroit to its world domination in the 60s and 70s right up to its more turbulent recent times. Click through to see some stunning photos and accompanying text charting the label's history...
- Emma
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good afternoon! :-)
- Live4Emma (L4S)
... and good morning to you! :) You ok? ... Had your Java yet?
- Emma
I am from Michigan and grew up with Pride in the Motown Sound!
- bcultral
doing well...and having my java as we speak! NOM! how are you?
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Busy, busy, busy and now that the awkward client has been put in his place ... GREAT!! :D How were the "sweet" dreams? ;)
- Emma
HAHA! that fool should know better than to mess with Emma! "sweet" dreams? Cheesecake....from scratch, of course! ;-)
- Live4Emma (L4S)
HAHA!! Of course cheesecake ... what else would "sweet dreams" be made of! Oh wait, maybe lemon meringue pie!! ;)
- Emma
YES! Lemon Meringue is ALL DAY WIN!!! :-)
- Live4Emma (L4S)
awesome!
- Anna Lynn M.
Internet Explorer 8 is 6,000x better than IE6, but it still bugs me. Google Chrome is the future. Here's why:
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1. Google Chrome is way faster.
- Robert Scoble
2. Google Chrome is a rethink. IE8 is a bug fix.
- Robert Scoble
3. Google Chrome has one box. IE 8 has two.
- Robert Scoble
Google Chrome is very light weight (including the UI)
- Vaibhav
4. Google Chrome works better with Google Reader and other AJAX sites.
- Robert Scoble
5. IE8 has too many menus and icons. Gives a real cluttered feel.
- Robert Scoble
IE's been a glorified bug fix since MS relabeled it from Mosaic, Robert - no secret there. :) I'm loving Chrome.
- teleken
WebKit is a really good rendering engine. I've always secretly wished IE8 would use WebKit as their rendering engine and scrap IE rendering, and somehow incorporate ActiveX and all of the IE features into it, since WebKit is open-source, not tied to a specific competitor (as opposed to Gecko and Firefox) and is fast and stable. – Have to agree about Google Chrome as well. It's a great browser. As much as I love Safari, I wish Chrome would come to Mac sooner :)
- Mark Bao
6. Google Chrome's search integration is magic. Start typing something and it figures out what you want. IE8 waits for you to finish, then brings up a boring web page.
- Robert Scoble
Any others?
- Robert Scoble
When it finally works on a Mac, perhaps I'll believe you ;)
- Jeff
If it didn't bug someone it wouldn't still be Internet Explorer.
- Josh Sharp
Looks like WebKit is the future, all mobile browsers have started using it.
- Vaibhav
Google Chrome and FLASH don't get along!
- paul mooney
Now I just wish Chrome worked better with Flash, or Flash worked better with Chrome.
- Dennis Jackson
Google Chrome is focused on internet. IE seems to mix to much other junk in
- Mike Scott
By the way, I wrote this whole item in IE8 running on Windows 7. If you are still going to use IE, please do get IE8. It is much better than previous versions.
- Robert Scoble
Not a big fan of IE or Chrome... I'll stick with FireFox.
- Steven Sanders
Google Chrome is slick...but I still like the simplicity of FireFox.
- Charlie Flowers
I love Google Chrome, I just wish the addon's started rolling out.
- Michael Fidler
Because the browser is a commodity... Connecting (correction - Deep Integration) with Google's cloud based services is the secret sauce.
- Brian Roy
I still need to play with Chrome in order to form an educated opinion. I'm just too hung up on Firefox still. :P
- Korey
Charlie: simplicity of Firefox? You've gotta be kidding, right? I love Firefox because of its complexity! (Plugins keep me there a lot of the time).
- Robert Scoble
Timely thread. I literally installed Google Chrome on my home computer within the last half hour (hey, I'm slow at these things - I'm not trendy). Just poking around a bit now, liking the speed. StumbleUpon support is an issue, but I'm reading up on it and other stuff. Just read Sarah Perez's post on privacy.
- Ontario Emperor
I h ave never been a fan of ActiveX. The fact that several websites still rely on it versus better technologies irks me and I refuse to use them.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
hope they add the tabs preview to Windows 7 when you hover over the taskbar chrome icon
- Vaibhav
Paul: Google Chrome gets along fine with Flash here. What are you experiencing?
- Robert Scoble
Yeah, I have to admit, IE8 is a pretty good browser, relatively speaking (relative to IE7 and IE6.) Renders my pages a ton better than previous versions.
- Mark Bao
Flash slows down Chrome for me pretty significantly, sometimes to where it's not even usable. Maybe it's just my computer.
- Dennis Jackson
How is IE6 a basis for comparison to anything anymore? Totally agree about Chrome.
- Bob Starr
loved chrome until I found out it wasn't compatible with my Roboform. I'm lazy and not too security conscious.
- BEX
IE 8 was supposed to be more compliant with standards, but it breaks a lot of websites which work in IE7, FF, Chrome. (Scratching my head)
- Vaibhav
Amen on the 'IE mixing other junk in' thought. I hate typing a hostname into it & it tries to hit a UNC or whatever the heck it's doing...
- Steven Byrnes
Chrome has a whole list of niggling problems and has had since day one -- they just never seem to get fixed. I like the speed and simplicity but Chrome will become the next IE unless Google starts paying attention to detail.
- Brian Sullivan
Chrome lets you create 'desktop applications' that don't get lost in all of those tabs and don't waste space with the address bar!
- Jon Issler
I use Chrome from time to time, but it just feels wrong when I do, I think I'll be sticking with Firefox.
- Randy
I am with Vaibhav on "webkit is the future as well"
- Peter Finn
Val: Privacy is dead. I really don't care.
- Robert Scoble
Chrome's biggest shortcomings right now are password security and the lack of plugins/extensions... Have to give Firefox a nod for having those two nailed!
- Jon Issler
I think Chrome is Google's paid service platform... http://www.johnworthington.me/...
- Johnny Worthington
Google Chrome is like FireFox back when it was Phoenix: Sleek, sexy and satisfying. Beta 2 adds autocomplete, profiles and a Greasemonkey style scripting.
- John Rubier
Chrome has built in Task Manager.... anyone? ..... alright, never mind.
- Vaibhav
@Dennis check your fans. If your on a laptop the fans and/or exhaust may be blocked with dust. that happened to me on my laptop, any flash video slowed my laptop down. realized one day (after reinstalling windows and still having the problem) that my fans had a lot of dust. used compressed air to clean them out, problem solved. happy laptop!
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
One thing I know I liked about Chrome: The web-comic! http://tiny.cc/9Ck9L
- Korey
I'm amazed at how many flash/chrome issues there are. Ive never had any?
- Mike Scott
Looking forward to chrome coming out for the mac
- Kevin Whalen
I still see that firefox is the future! unless google chrome will be a 100% organic software http://snipr.com/9u3ld
- Mark Guadalupe
I love firefox and plug-ins, but does Chrome need plug-ins? I thought their deal was to run current and next-gen online applications better, which will likely preclude the need for the plug-ins we firefox users can't live without now.
- Bill Garrett
Robert, I really like Chrome too. The universal address/search/history bar is the future of browsing. There are only a small % of sites that do not work with Chrome... usually old school corporations, such as ones that I have to pay bills online at. Grr. Works 99.8% of the time for me otherwise.
- Brian
I just installed the Windows 7 beta. I fired up IE 8 and it didn't correctly render a nonprofit's Web site I administer as a volunteer (www.spauldingcenter.org). IE 8 didn't correctly render some of the CSS. I installed Chrome and Chrome got it right. IE 8 is obviously not yet ready for release.
- Rod Bauer
from twhirl
I love Chrome and it is my default browser now. In fact all my flash problems in Firefox and IE went away in Chrome (video paused many times during playback, audio kept going). They are both memory hoars. Maybe a problem with too much Flash on websites? The lack of plugin support is very troubling.
- Chris Mayer
I'm keen for getting mac version of chrome too, though its going to be interesting to see how they're gonna handle interface
- Mike Scott
from IM
Re: 6. The search bar autofill? Err FF has that too for recently visited sites. If you get an Add-On it'll do the potential sites too.
- Adam
Google Chrome may be nice, but there was an "Epic Fail" on my system when Chrome decided that it was the default browser (out of four browsers) and would not directly allow me to un-check the Default-Browser checkbox. It was quickly removed.
- Robert Miller
I don't care about Internet Explorer any more. I switched to Firefox + Foxmarks, and solved a nagging problem - synchronization of bookmarks across multiple Windows *and* OS X machines - that the 'softies *still* haven't managed to solve, despite wasting a few developer-centuries on Live Mesh.
- Pat Rice
Love Chrome. Use it whenever I can. It does have problems with some sites, and I'm always having problems with flash crashing in it.
- cjmart
Kind of ironic that Chrome and Firefox and both performing much better for me under Windows 7. The beta Chrome release is really sweet.
- Charlie Anzman
@Pat: I use live mesh to sync my bookmarks between machines all the time. Add your favorites folder to mesh and you are good to go. Mesh for mac is available too.
- Chris Johnson
Google Chrome doesn't know what's RSS!!! FAIL
- carrotmadman6
I feel like people are debating the relative merits of tn3270 emulators...
- Brian Roy
I like the speed/lightness of Chrome, however i dont think it will be big anytime soon with anyone other than techies. Doesnt run many addins/plugins etc... Unlikely any enterprise will adopt it either. Its a great reference app.
- Chris Johnson
Chrome certainly is clean and renders fast, but until the experience can be customized via extensions like Firefox, there is no one way I can make it my primary. I just loaded Win. 7 on my laptop and the only thing I ported over from any of my other machines was my FEBE.
- George Rogers
Important point for me is that Chrome opens more of the monitor for the content on the page, not for toolbars that i do not need while browsing a page. no loss of functionality without the toolbar.
- Jeff DiStanlo
I wonder how many people even know what tn3270 is used for :) I know I do all too well.
- Patrick Allmond
+++ on this. FoxMarks is awesome. Just wish FoxMarks had an iPhone browser sync also :(
- Patrick Allmond
Any Flock 2.0 users here? If Chrome comes out for the Mac, I may take a look as well - but Firefox/Flock has been great for me for now.
- Erich Miller
@Robert: Maybe simplicity wasn't the right word..."ease of use" might be a better term. I think that FF's layout is not as radically different from the browsers I grew up with (IE & Netscape), as Chrome seems to be...maybe that's why I find it simpler to use. Having said that, Chrome is by no means complex, just not as intuitive as FF. As you mentioned, the plug-ins add to the ease of use. It seems you can get a FireFox plug-in for anything.
- Charlie Flowers
BTW, have you tried FF's AutoPager plug-in. That thing is amazing! It "automatically loads the next page of a site inline when you reach the end of the current page for infinite scrolling of content"...it's perfect for things like Twitter, Google, and yes it works for FriendFeed too. :D
- Charlie Flowers
I'm using Flock 2.0 on both Mac and Windows. I've uninstalled Chrome -- didn't care for it much since Flock does everything I need it to.
- Victor Solanoy
:hits the Googles to figure out what the Flock you guys are talking about:
- teleken
IE8 (and Firefox) offer a lot of tools to supplement your browsing experience. Chrome just gets out of the way. I'm not sure one or the other is a fundamentally superior approach.
- Toph Tucker
Installed Flock for all of 5 minutes. Sticking with Chrome, thanks.
- teleken
ctrl+t takes forever on IE8, and for what? A blank tab. I like Chrome's approach
- Andrew Smith
Firefox's is simple and extendable. Firefox' strength comes from its pluggability and ease of developing new plugins. Chrome needs to beat that.
- Angsuman Chakraborty
Chrome needs to support Linux before it can even think of replacing Firefox. Chromium port of Chrome on Linux isn't very stable.
- Angsuman Chakraborty
firefox plugins are the new activeX. there's too much functionality i use for me to shift *now*. i *do* like chrome, though.
- moogs
I like moving tabs into new windows, but does crashes alot w/ Flash
- Da
7. If one tab crashes, all the other tabs are unaffected. Let's see ANY other browser do that.
- Nathan Chase
i think i'll stick with firefox. so much more you can do with it..
- Terry O'Fee
Chrome is fast (unlike IE), has a very minimal UI (also unlike IE), and you can move tabs to other windows. I have never been able to get Firefox to open new tabs next to the tab they're opened from, instead of at the far right, plus I don't really care about extensions. Plus, I've never had any issues with Flash. The only problem is that my school email won't work in Chrome (but that's minor). Chrome wins for me.
- imperator3733
from twhirl
Robert - how is the performance of IE8 compared to Chrome and Firefox? Personally, I'd be using Chrome if I had my add-ons and greasemonkey scripts. I love Chrome's mult-tasking / memory management - very nice
- Susan Beebe
@Imperator, Firefox's UI can be slimmed down, and you can fix the tab issue with Tab Mix Plus. Also, Firefox 3.1 is faster than Chrome.
- Tanath
how bout: Chrome is CSS compliant? IE8 isn't, I know this by experience
- Duncan Riley
@Nathan -- as far as I know, IE8 separated tabs into different processes first....
- Toph Tucker
I think FriendFeed should put a comment button at the bottom of the comments... that said, Opera is the fastest, but it has a few shortcomings. I use FireFox or Chrome depending on what PC I'm at. Some sites only work in IE.
- Gus
Google Chrome uses your screen real estate more efficiently
- Aad 't Hart
Chrome focuses on the web and not on the browser and that's what a browser's supposed to do.
- Rohit
May be when there are basic extensions available for Chrome then it will be fair to compare with Firefox. For now, I don't see Chrome that useful, even though it's clean, a bit faster and provides more screen space. After a couple of days of using Chrome, I switched to Firefox as I felt less productive without the powerful extensions in Firefox.
- Amar Shah
When Chrome has an extension like Better GReader, TabMixPlus, and NoScript, then I'll switch, but FF has everything I need with the extensions. NoScript is about the ONLY addon I absolutely need to use for security of my computer.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
You can install extensions on the Chromium Builds! Go for it!
- Will Higgins™
love chrome as much as the next guy, but it does crash sometimes over simplest things, like downloading sth from gmail or greader. & it's not just one tab that goes - it all goes & only one comes back, either gmail or greader...
- siggimus
Chrome also crashes when importing Firefox Bookmarks, which makes it awkward to switch. But yeah, I would still use Firefox over IE 8.
- Todd Brunner
from twhirl
my mother understands the search-thingy-box in chrome.
- Svensonsan
@scobleizer I think this would have made a good blog post. Would have been easier to read you view points. The discussion could then have happened on friendfeed. Too many comments to read properly
- Sidharth Dassani
Chrome and WebKit are the future - just hope there's still room for Firefox. Remember how Firefox became Firefox?
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
I agree. Chrome focuses on opening fast, which is critical for impatient people like me. Firefox and IE are way too slow.
- Richard Crocker
WebKit can do CSS3 gradients, and I have only seen it in WordPress for creating actual images with gradients. Chrome is the future indeed! Extensions? heh, I use javascript bookmarklets to do my bidding! Chromes bookmark manager is more powerful than I expected. Passwords can be imported from FF but there is no backup option yet.
- Web20Critic
Chrome is really promising, but still incomplete imo. Being a web developer, I have deep connections with firefox plug-ins like FireBug (with Yslow), dev. toolbar and a couple more. But looking at the future, I think the final round of the browser wars will be between Safari and Chrome (ofc IE will still have at least 50% market) because Firefox gets slower and more agonizing with every new release, and lacks the support Apple and Google offers for Safari/Chrome
- Onur Cengiz
If chrome crashes, report it! Make a note of what you were doing and blog it, microshare it, post it on the chromium blog etc. This way all of us can help make it work for us! Nice thread for tech support, Mr Scoble!
- Web20Critic
7. Because Chrome has a new and improved version every week/month/quarter (depending upon the distribution channel) whereas IE version comes once in 3 years.
- Varun Mahajan
Robert: How did you get IE8 on Windows 7??? The installer refused to run when i tried.
- Roberto Bonini
Roberto: it came with Windows 7. Or so I thought. I already had it loaded on this machine before I upgraded.
- Robert Scoble
Aged Like a Fine Wine - http://featured.chickipedia.com/aged-fi...
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But not without the necessary medical treatment. ;-)
- Rutger Blom
While I am impressed by these women's "unnatrually long-lasting hotness", it seems like their staying power might also be due to some savviness on their part.
- Clare Dibble
I saw Kate Winslet on Letterman the other night and she looks far better in her early 30s than she did in her early 20s.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Salma is still teh hotness
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
Salma Hayek is 42???!!!!
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I would go lez for any one of these women. And not just because they're attractive.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Diane Lane is one amazingly hot woman. I'm in lurve!
- Joey Gibson
Ditto on Diane Lane. *melts*
- Brownspank
Nice. I turned 44 this week and I'm still hot. No way this hot but just sayin...
- BEX
BEX, pictures? :D
- AJ Batac
Avatar is all you get LOL (actually, I'm pretty sure I posted a pic of myself going out on NYE)
- BEX
Monica Bellucci is not on the list. Google her. She's beautiful.
- Valeria Maltoni
Last movie I think saw Monica Bellucci was in the Matrix :)
- AJ Batac
Please. Nicole Kidman's botox horror couldn't 'age' if it was sanded with a belt sander, dipped in a vat of acid, and thrown in a tumbler with some sharp stones.
- cecily
They don't make Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd cartoons like they usedta. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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They don't make 'em like anything these days. ^_^
- Ron Bailey
Nike Leave Nothing Commercial (Full HD version) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Second best commercial evah. Love the way the ball transitions from Meriman to Jackson. The end is a tad unrealistic. But wait for it.
- Steve Rubel
Anything with that music (from Last of the Mohicans right?) seems triumphant
- Keith - @tsudo
It is the Last of the Mohicans song but you cant buy the song by itself anywhere online. I wanted it for the treadmill!
- Steve Rubel
this is very good but I liked FATE better http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Aykan
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