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Live now: This Week In Massive Egos with @baratunde, @therealdvorak, @dspark, & @jlouderb. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here...
Daniel Rowley, Chris Heath, Pam Gwenzi and 16 other people liked this
The cottage is busting
- Johnny Worthington
need bigger heads
- Carey Lumeng
So.. .what's rev3's "burn rate"?
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
I can't believe Leo actually called this week's show "This Week in Massive Egos"!
- Devon Blugh
from twhirl
Yankees suck
- Carey Lumeng
leo please tell john c put on a los angeles angels hat on. there gonna win on monday! lol :)
- pcguru626
unibrow
- Carey Lumeng
thisman.org is viral marketing, the domain is owned by guerrigliamarketing.it
- russtbarnacle
The sad thing is that his parents may be fools but he now has this hanging over his head for the rest of his life
- Johnny Worthington
Johnny, I'm guessing the boy knows that. That's why he threw up on national television.
- Devon Blugh
from twhirl
Yep
- Johnny Worthington
Hoax...why no more well babies? still have wells and babies
- Carey Lumeng
Trending topics is what EVERYONE is talking about, not what the tech-set is. Twitter is mainstream after all...
- Johnny Worthington
#FirstWordsBeforeSex >_>
- Danny Minick
Lists!
- Danny Minick
twitter also describes hashtags with mouse over
- Carey Lumeng
I read about Twitter Lists on my FriendFeed list called NoisySoMo (Noisy Social Media types)
- Johnny Worthington
I was one of the anointed for w/e reason.
- Danny Minick
Hey! I love Google Wave. >:(
- Danny Minick
hello everybooooooody
- Pam Gwenzi
Nice sweater..
- Morten Hovland
If the Secret Service didn't take John out for that sweater... that comment would do it
- Johnny Worthington
i wonder if they're going to cover the new $50 wolfram alpha iphone app..
- Nathan Haney
$50!? No thanks.
- Danny Minick
Anyone know why the latest TWiG hasn't appeared on the iTunes podcast section yet?
- Zane Blandish
Why would anyone pay $50 to find out the distance from here to the moon on your iPhone? I thought that was what Safari+Google was for
- Devon Blugh
from twhirl
Danny thats what i said, i just use safari and use the webpage way better
- Nathan Haney
plus Wolfram has a Web app through Safari mobile for the iPhone that does the same thing for free.
- Danny Minick
It's a jumper
- Johnny Worthington
exactly. i didnt think they would even charge for the iphone app with the web app in place
- Nathan Haney
don't do hottub meetings at las vegas
- Siouxmoux Riopel
Hey, what's Stephanie Siemiller doing these days?
- Devon Blugh
from twhirl
$50 for an iphone app sounds like a lot, and i wouldn't pay that, but it has a scientific calc. built it . . along with statistics calculators, too
- casey ferrier
Yeah?
- Johnny Worthington
Wow! Bright Orange! The color of evil!!
- Devon Blugh
from twhirl
@leolaporte Tell @baratunde that Boston misses him.
- Margaret McFee
Focus on 'The World' - the one they've abandoned.
- 1x29
john C Bright Orange!
- Siouxmoux Riopel
In my experience they hold the passports of their [construction workers] too.
- 1x29
Dubai´s exploitation of foreign labor is disgusting, and reason enough to never visit.
- Morten Hovland
We aren't dumb. Transparency is the essential key then let us make up our own mind.
- Johnny Worthington
Laptop dancing?
- Johnny Worthington
Hmmm. Something other than laptops in a programmer's lap.
- Devon Blugh
from twhirl
That campaign sucked on purpose... We are STILL talking about it
- Johnny Worthington
Let John finish
- Ed Hunter
+1 Ed Hunter. JCD hasn't got to finish one thing yet today :|
- 1x29
EXACTLY
- Johnny Worthington
Same thing with Social Media. Not everyone is one the cutting edge or has 8 hours a day to spend on it
- Johnny Worthington
that's the echo chamber
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Will you have fairy bread and cups of orange cordial?
- Johnny Worthington
Can i point out that twit started by talking about Edward Bernays who said "If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway". Isn't a windows 7 party unconscious cooperation? disclosure is irrelevant.
- russtbarnacle
can i have the plastic bag?
- michael sean wright
The Windows 7 parties is pure genious on behalf of Microsoft. It cost them next to nothing and they get all the techheads talking about it 24/7 + the videos went viral.
- Morten Hovland
But don't you think the 'lameness' is on purpose... We are still talking about it. The Windows 7 Party is the PC in Mac vs PC ads
- Johnny Worthington
steve balmer tears ?
- cxx dxx
That hurt my brain
- Carey Lumeng
Wow. :(
- Simon Wicks
Thats pretty standard family guy humor tbqh
- Morten Hovland
Does someone have their speakers up? Im hearing everything twice..
- Simon Wicks
watching that family guy windows ad episode make me want to buy mac
- Siouxmoux Riopel
Watching Family Guy period makes me want to sell my TV
- Devon Blugh
from twhirl
hi yall!
- @baratunde
Too bad tethering isn't supported by AT&T yet for you americans, no more need for open Wifi.
- Morten Hovland
Wow, this show is LOUD
- George Gray
Great show guys. Very informative and entertaining :) Thanks!
- mahjongmi
Audible Pick Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood UNABRIDGED By Peter Biskind http://www.audible.com/adbl...
- Leo Laporte
Sometimes Leo likes to just listen
- Johnny Worthington
Don't bust on Richmond! Richmond, VA is a great city
- George Gray
So between the TSA mommy, the Balloon kid and the "Free stuff" lady - what might explain this surge in IRL trolling?
- Morten Hovland
Real Time News: 1% fact, 49% Analysis and 50% making stuff up
- Johnny Worthington
Word.
- Morten Hovland
time again the world proves to me that there's no such thing as common sense.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
Also too... The public is not one entity. 10% may be focusing on an important story but 50% may be on something else and 40% on another.
- Johnny Worthington
he's talking about right now the realtime web is populated by the echo chamber - once google marries the click-thru weighted info *with* the realtime push ... *boom*
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Remember when AOL released the "anonymous" search results? Something tells me I don´t want to know what most people use the internet for..
- Morten Hovland
good point Morten :)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Plus it relies on people clicking through. If anything, we are morphing into a bunch of headline readers
- Johnny Worthington
Twitter costs trillions to society in loss of productivity
- Charbax
Charbax... Talking about what was on TV last night, sports and checking email does as well. Twitter is just another blinking light
- Johnny Worthington
Twitter's not wasted nearly as much time as walking all over the office to gossip.
- MiniMage, sheeple of FF
Or smoking breaks
- Johnny Worthington
Don't get me started on smoking breaks. Bain of construction productivity. Seriously.
- 1x29
Show Name: Technicolor Dvorak
- Johnny Worthington
John C Dvorak - Now available in Technicolor ? :-)
- Morten Hovland
When does the video go up?
- Charbax
Boxee?
- Morten Hovland
Anything else than itunes? Are there going to be direct links on twit.tv?
- Charbax
downloadable video from twit.tv as well?
- Tony, Paradox of FF
Will you put the episodes up on Youtube as well?
- Charbax
Popcorn is in Europe atleast
- Morten Hovland
bye Leo really loved it
- Pam Gwenzi
Netfix should have a audio/video podcast section, that would solve a lot of delivery issues ;)
- Morten Hovland
How long will it take to publish the video of episode after they have been recorded? odtv.me usually takes a couple days
- Charbax
I don't think they publish video. Only audio?
- 1x29
Technicolor Dvorak
- Johnny Worthington
TWiT - Now available in technicolor :-)
- Morten Hovland
This Week in Massive Egos
- JR Holmes
Best was your own title: This Week in Massive Egos
- JR Holmes
Best was your own title: This Week in Massive Egos
- JR Holmes
LOL @ Leo
- 1x29
Well he talked about Twit video but no idea when the videos will go up
- Charbax
respect, leo
- Morten Hovland
"It All Comes Down To Hitler"
- Johnny Worthington
the screw you ringtone video is best
- Mark
hi from ga good night buffering is still notin sink :(
- daveccorey
Ňicķ, Shea, Uwe and 29 other people liked this
I think the green fruits in the 3rd photo are sweetsops. Very nommy
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
from iPhone
Shey, they are nommy. Had one in Jamaica once. :)
- edythe
Clicking one of those images led me to a very tantalizing group: http://www.flickr.com/groups...
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Amazing colors and textures,
- elena chesta
ooh, john, chocoholics. dangerous. ;)
- edythe
watching This Week is Startups LIVE right now. http://www.ustream.tv/channel... Tyler Crowley will be on the live streaming web series panel Monday!
Jeremy Campbell liked this
I need to catch up on TWIST. I'm watching Matt Mickiewicz today and think he's pretty brilliant.
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
@garyvee's new book Crush It! is out today! The man never sleeps, I swear. http://www.amazon.com/Crush-T...
Jeremy Campbell, Thomas and Sylvain Nadeau liked this
Umm...OKAY, WE GET THE MESSAGE :P
- Amy
Amy: you dont follow him do ya? ;)
- Fee501st
Fee: Negatory
- Amy
Who the heck says "negatory". Did you join the army? Does Scotland even have an army? Does Mel Gibson lead them? Or are they drunk all the time? (See V, I don't pick on you *every* time)
- Dave Friedel
I like negatory!
- Veronica
Affirmative...
- Thomas
Dave: I watch too much NCIS. Also, we have an army, a navy, the girl guides...they could all take you, cat-man (and all ARE quite partial to the drink) :P
- Amy
Yeah Dave, everybody says it. Don't be so negatory.
- Paul Reynolds
Boy oh boy. I really want to get excited about Gary again, but I reached a point where his videos, tweets, and blog posts became just too much. One can only take so much of a person constantly talking about themselves before you just can't handle it anymore. You listening, Calacanis?
- Fleagle
Amy: LMAO. :D
- Dave Friedel
Beyonce Spills Wonder Woman Movie News - http://www.comicbookmovie.com/wonder_...
Vijayendra (V-Mo) Mohanty, Jeremy, Morton Fox and 7 other people liked this
"Just got back from a press conference tonight with Beyonce and she spoke of a few upcoming movie projects. The last one on her list was Wonder Woman! Yes, Wonder Woman! She said she has to meet up with the writers and directors in a couple months and things will start to pick up by mid-2010 for a late 2011 release. She said the writers were Stuart Beatti and David Elliot, the guys that wrote GI Joe: Rise of Cobra and the director was John Moore, the guy that directed Max Payne."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
No no no no no no no no no no!
- Spidra Webster
Everyone is going to focus on whether she can pull it off. She might be able to even though she wouldn't be my choice. It is " the guys that wrote GI Joe: Rise of Cobra" and "the guy that directed Max Payne" that scares the hell out of me.
- RAPatton
It all sounds shitty to me. More of the usual crappy treatment WW gets.
- Spidra Webster
Beyonce hasn't been a good actress from what I remember
- Lindsey is Fierce!
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, I mean no no no no no!
- Vincent van Wylick
I thought Whedon was doing WW?
- Dragon Goldmaplethorpe
He was terminated a long time ago; I don't think this will happen either, unless Time Warner has lost their mind.
- RAPatton
Okay, she said she's *in* WW, but apparently didn't say she's *playing* WW. What if she's the villain? Beyonce as Cheetah, maybe?
- Kevin Shaum
Ok, yeah I heard about Whedon doing it for like two years, but overall my interest in a WW movie is incredibly low. I can't think of a single decent super heroine movie. Maybe Spiderman 3.
- Dragon Goldmaplethorpe
Aliens, Andrea. Ripley is my hero.
- RAPatton
I am thinking of comic based super heroines but yes, Aliens is good. I'm thinking like, Electra, Catwoman, etc.
- Dragon Goldmaplethorpe
"the guys that wrote GI Joe: Rise of Cobra" " - yes, but in fairness, the guys who wrote 500 Days of Summer also wrote Pink Panther 2.
- Andrew C
:-/
- Anna Haro
Writers who wrote GI-Joe? *sinking feeling*
- Vijayendra (V-Mo) Mohanty
I love Wonder Woman, but I'm not interested in anything new. I kind of prefer the childhood memories.
- R1CC1
If Beyonce is WW, I won't go see it. I'm still holding out for Cobie Smulders: http://images.google.com/images...
- Hip-Hop in da House
MY MILK TOOF: Little Chefs - http://mymilktoof.blogspot.com/2009...
vijay, Parth Awasthi, Renchin Wang and 45 other people liked this
Cuteness overload!
- Amy℠
so sweet :D
- Ekin Acar
my kids LOVE reading up on my milk toof ever since you posted it a while back. so cute.
- Trish Haley
Awww that's awesome Trish. They're just too cute
- Lindsey is Fierce!
These are adorable!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
I love this! Thanks for sharing it
- Mike Lewis
They want me to go back and look at the nightmare one because they can't remember if it was Ickle or Lardee that had it. I liked the post she did where she answered everyone's questions about how long it takes for her to do one episode. That's dedication.
- Trish Haley
I must have missed the post but every time I look at these I think . . . man that must take forever
- Lindsey is Fierce!
haha! x_x
- Anna Haro
5 years ago today I married my best friend.
Brent - Long Live Rock, Mitchell Tsai, A Meshkatian and 144 other people liked this
Happy anniversary !!
- Eric Logan
Happy anniversary!!!!
- AJ Batac
Awesome couple! Congratulations! :D
- JA Castillo
LOVE!
- suzanne
Happy anniversary!!!
- Ha Ko
Happy Anniversary!
- Ayşe E.
Too cute! Happy anniversary!!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Happy Anniversary!
- josh neff, Fun Dip of FF
"ulan en ii arkadaşını mikermi insan.ayıp diilmi olm" diyorlar lan hakkında. ayıp değil mi oğlum, değer miydi insanların ağzına sakız olmaya ha? hahahah. happy anniversary!
- monara
Congrats to both of you!!!!
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
monara shame on you!
- missipipi
what a shame for monara!
- alpi
Happy Anniversary!! :)
- Her Lindsay-ness
Happy Anniversary!!!
- Ha3rvey (more more more)
You guys are so cute! Happy Anniversary!
- Michelle Martinez
hafız çok pis alaya aldılar seni.
- Ergin
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
- Shevonne
ergin kimin yanındasın.tarafını seç.o diilde bu adam sanamı benzio ne
- missipipi
haha. insan insana benzer.
- Ergin
You two are adorable. Happy 5th!!! <3
- Carmen
Happy annivesary!
- Anika
Gratz!!!!!!
- rowlikeagirl
olm, ilk ben yazcaktım buna ayıp mayıp diye, aşağıladın lan beni missi ingilizcemin kötülüğünü sebep gösterip... alacağın olsun, şimdi ben de diyorum ki; Happy Anniversary! Congratz! missi'ye inat ulan en güzel günler, en güzel geceler sizlerin olsun, tepişin tavuklar gibi, doğurun tavşanlar gibi mnkym :))
- Yasutora "Chad" Sado
ahahahaha ilahi yasuto.ama ingilizcen hakikaten kötüydü yani.berbattı resmen
- missipipi
tencere kapak
- PuCCa ve 19 kişi daha
English Time'dan randevu aldım, yarın derslere başlıyorum... senden ders istiyceemi zannettin dimi? bi daa sana tamah edermiyim nan ben... bastırırım parayı, alırım en baba yerden babayı... bi gururum var, ay hev hanır... yaa... hem bu sünnetsizler türkçe biliyo mu bakalım? ha ha ha hayt, fahrenayt!
- Yasutora "Chad" Sado
Happy Anniversary!
- Anne Bouey
Happy Anniversary!
- © D/\\/IIID ℠ ®
FFyi ne hale getirdik diye kendi kendimize bok atıyoruz bi de bunların da bizden farkı yok ki, baksana hepsi aynı şeyi yazmış, kurban olsunlar yay'ımıza, hoşgeldin'imize, geçmiş olsun'larımıza
- Alev
bi de, happy anniversary Jeff!
- Alev
Happy Anniversary!
- Katie: Witch Of The West
allah bir yastıkta kocatsın...ne şanslı bir kadınsın sen
- Aynebilim
oda anladı sevil yastıkta kocamak falan global ol biraz geliştir kendini :Pp
- PuCCa ve 19 kişi daha
özüm neyse o pucca..öyle süslü kelimelere gerek yok...ben kıskançlıktan ne dediğimi biliyor muyum? gitti dağ gibi adam...
- Aynebilim
bu mu nan dağ gibi? turşu kavanozu gibi herif... bırak allasen yaa...
- Yasutora "Chad" Sado
alaan yarattıylan dalga geçlmez özünde iyi biridir muhakkak..
- PuCCa ve 19 kişi daha
dışı beni içi sizi yakar kızlar..
- Aynebilim
gelin güzel mi? benim gözler mi bozuk acep? tööbe tööbe...
- Yasutora "Chad" Sado
ahahahha... rabbim dağına göre kar verir diyosun :))
- Yasutora "Chad" Sado
üç kişilik yatakta artık.. yalnız varya harbi hayvanız.. ben ble düğün fotolarımı koysam elin gavuru yazsa altına makara geçse.. savaş bile çıkar :PP
- PuCCa ve 19 kişi daha
tombik keçi sakallı bebeler doğurun hadi bakalım uslu uslu durun sonra
- PuCCa ve 19 kişi daha
thanks for the well wishes everyone!
- (jeff)isageek
pucca bu teşekkür sanaydı :)) thansks to you jeff ;))
- Yasutora "Chad" Sado
en az 3 çocuk...
- alpi
önemli diil hacıı, altın takamadık artık bebenin sünnetine bişiler yaparız beline kuvvett yorm kendini hadii
- PuCCa ve 19 kişi daha
lan ii bişe dediniz sanmış hacı :D onu ben meşur ettim.ceff bebeyim sayemde feedin piyasa olduu haaa.hadi yine iisin
- missipipi
jeff idolümdür artık. naber kanka?
- alpi
armut dolap yelkovan günlük, tebeşir kumanda halı, gözlük tencere...nasılsa anlamıyorlar hahahaha
- Aynebilim
jeff'in dedesi türkmüş
- alpi
Congrats, tho I was expecting a punchline...something like "5 years ago today I married my best friend...my fiancée was furious!"
- Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
ahahaha sevil küfürde ettirekmi gız.anlamı meraba deriz mesela şakacıktan :D
- missipipi
anacım nasılsa anlamıyorlar.belki bunlara ihtiyacınız var mı düğün hediyesi olarak filan diye sorduğumu sanırlar..severler beni belki...:P
- Aynebilim
gugıl transşeysinden çevirirse götelek gibi kalcaanız ama.benim yazdıım türkçe sayılmadıından ben yırttım ahahahahaha
- missipipi
HAPPY ANIMALS EVİ. hayvan barınagının kalbi. HOHOHO
- insanlikadin
kızlar ayıp ama yaa :p Allah mesud etsin :D
- pandora
Happy Anniversary :)
- Penny
Happy Anniversary! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
bu adam paso bana yazılıyordu direkt iletiler atıyordu ı love my love bişiler söylüyodu nişanımı bozcam seni alcam ülkene yerleşip kalcam diyordu :((
- PuCCa ve 19 kişi daha
:))
- leydielif
ee ama bana dioduki puka hez dı big ess falan böle terbiyesiz bişeler
- missipipi
ikiyüzlü keçitosbaası işte.. bana aşığım dedi ölürüm dedi sünnet bile olurum dedi gitmiş arkadaşıyla evlenmiş sonra çok ayıp harbiden çok
- PuCCa ve 19 kişi daha
biz bi ara çok kankaydık.iiki aramız bozulmuş lan.evlendii bestfirendi ben olabilirdim resmen
- missipipi
jeff kankamdır ya iyi adamdır. naber kanka?
- alpi
ahahah kızlar hasta mısınız :D adam ne diyor bunlar diyecek :D
- delininbiri
hıııh bu adam benm sevgilimle olan fotomu kıskanmıs bikere:P
- Dilara TAN
bi ara öle böleymiş diye birşey de duymuştum ammaaa yakıştıramamıştım haklıymışım
- PuCCa ve 19 kişi daha
jeff çok kolpa adam ya.
- alpi
severim keratayı
- missipipi
baba adamdır ya, cebimde beş kuruş yokken 100 doları tutuşturdu elime cep harçlığın olsun diye.
- alpi
bazı espirileri kötü böyle güldükten sonra vuruyo falan ayı gibi hoşuma gitmiyo ama özünde iyi biri
- PuCCa ve 19 kişi daha
oolum kendi arkadaşlarından çoh biz yorum yaptık herife :D
- pandora
ahahah şaşırmıştır bu noluo lan die.türkleri yannış tanıtmayalım arkadaşlar.kangıraçileyşıns foryor meriyıd ceff
- missipipi
adamın arkadaşlarının yorumlarına bak hep aynı hiç yaratıcılık yok.. adamın bir tane bile dostu yokmuş bize teşekkür etmesi gerek bence
- PuCCa ve 19 kişi daha
küpesi gıcığıma gitti
- Alev
pucca katılıyorum kolum hala mosmor iki yıldır düzelmedi.
- alpi
Happy Anniversary :)
- Rodfather
Happy Anniversary!! CONGRATS!! :)
- Susan Beebe
Happy anniversary, Jeff!
- Helen Sventitsky
به به تبریک , معلومه که دوان دوان هم بودید :)
- Mil∂d
Happy anniversary!
- Laura B needin' waders
Happy Anniversary!
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
from iPhone
ulan her dil var adamlarda arapça bile koymuşlar ahahahah
- Furkan Tunalı
MRB ARKADAŞLAR.
- Emre Yılmaz
DO YOU KNOW TURKISH RAKI?
- Emre Yılmaz
happy pantolon, saksı peçete böbrek...
- Aynebilim
ne diyorsun sesin gelmiiorr.. :)
- Holden Caulfield
happy adapazarı çık aradan....
- Aynebilim
kapat kapay ben seni ararım..
- Holden Caulfield
new women sesi kısık duymayabilirim
- Aynebilim
o zaman no woman no cry ya :)
- Holden Caulfield
yaa naptın holden sen yaaa..yeni evli çitftin altına yazılır mı yahu..cık cık cık
- Aynebilim
yahu çok anlıolarda sanki.. :)) sen kendi yazdıklarına baak adamın feed'ini ne hale getirdin.. şimdi zaten o iyi bişiy yazdık sanar garibim..
- Holden Caulfield
ama sen ingilizce yazdın:( ya anlarsa..ya bu yuva senin geyiğin yüzünden yıkılırsa..doğmamış çocukların hesabını kime vereceksin...haa holden kime?
- Aynebilim
bırak artık insanların yakasını yazma bu feed'e.. :))) iyice geyiğe çevirdin sen kendi hesabına yaan.. :P
- Holden Caulfield
Cheers! ^_^
- Danny Minick
Happy anniversary!
- John E. Bredehoft
happy merdane
- Aynebilim
Very happy anniversary :)
- Kamilah Gill
heyy adamım mercimeği fırına vermişsin..ohhh yeeeee
- Aynebilim
hayırlı işler.. hayırlı işleeer. yes baby
- Holden Caulfield
Many Happy Returns of the day!
- Parth Awasthi
Congrats! Happy Anniversary!
- imabonehead
我的教练的工作是完成我的妹妹去进
- Aynebilim
awesome man...
- Zee.
sevil what do u talkin' about it girl.. please be kind..
- Holden Caulfield
holden geline aşıktı...belki tekrar benim olur diye şirin gözükmeye çalışıyor..
- Aynebilim
bırak şundan hiç bahsetme bıraktı gitti zaten.. şunun tipine bak ya.. yazıklar olsun :P
- Holden Caulfield
Happy anniversary!
- TrafficBug
bırakın lan adamın yakasını. kankam o. naber jeff?
- alpi
Nice 5 years more... :P
- Efe C.
5 yıl dediğin nedir ki ben bunları 15 yıl sonra görcem o sakallar yoluk yoluk olur...
- alpi
Congrats
- Andre Pope
from Nambu
That's awesome! Congrats!
- Got Love For DB™?
Congrats!
- Michael Fidler
from iPhone
Happy anniversary <3
- Nia
hacı gerdek nassıldı anlat bakim bi ?
- PuCCa ve 19 kişi daha
Congratulations!
- Justin Rains
Watch Out AT&T: iPhone Sales Could Double By Dropping Exclusivity - http://mashable.com/2009...
Jeremy Campbell liked this
Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype: http://scobleizer.com/2009... my blog about Wave.
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I agree with you on this. Been playing with it in the dev preview and now in the released version and until I get people I know on there and reasons to discuss or collaborate then I don't see the value. The concept is excellent, the execution is excellent, I just don't think the product is what people are expecting.
- Keith Bennett
When I first saw the release video of Wave it was clear this wasn't something that would be for you to invite all your friends to. I'm surprised at your harsh review in such a fast manner -- you opened it up to the world of your "friends" to play in the sandbox -- but did you actually have a mission? You actually point out that this has great potential for group work. It's about...
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- Elaine Young, Ph.D
Writing off Wave at this point is a bit like walking into a hardware store, picking up a hammer, walking around the store looking for stuff to hit and declaring "Why would I ever want a hammer? This is a waste of time." For teams and workgroups looking to improve the way they communicate and collaborate, Wave might be a great tool. For others, not so much.
- Ken Sheppardson
Elaine: you are hoping for something more in depth? Come back in a month after things settle out and developers ship some real tools for it. Welcome to our real time world. Why do you assume that normal people will give ANY tool more than an hour before they decide whether it sucks or not?
- Robert Scoble
The amount of hype this thing got will NOT be realized by a collaboration scenario. I had this years ago with Ray Ozzie's tools. Geesh.
- Robert Scoble
since you dont have a use for it, can i haz your invite?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Oh, I'm not arguing that it's over-hyped. That's the nature of the real time social media hype echo chamber we live in these days. :-) That's not to say it isn't a cool tool. BTW, I really miss Groove. :-(
- Ken Sheppardson
I won't believe for a second that Google created Wave to be anything less than an entrance into competition with Facebook for mass users. Google does one thing very well for mass usage, Search. The other things are great tools and have a base, but this was a Social Networking play, disguised as a collaboration tool. I think Robert is right, this is NEVER going to match the hype.
- Patrick Boegel
I think you're absolutely right, Robert. I got my invite, all excited, signed up, added a friend, and.... *fizzle*... it's chat, it's IM, it's a bad twitter client... I hope it will evolve into something worthwhile.
- Jan Ole Peek
I always understood wave as the next evolution of xmpp - something google envisaged when they first got their hands on jabber. Something distributed merging the features of instant messaging, forum and newsgroup. It was not aimed at twitter or facebook, it was more aimed at some of the live features of Notes and Groupwise and forums. PS: the hype it got is the same as every time google...
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I've been a wavesandbox user for months and today I got both my wave invite and as it just so happens I also got my threadsy invite. Suffice to say I'm much more excited about threadsy! Why? because it's actually helpful.
- Bob Stewart
It's clearly not a 1:1 replacement for email and its early yet. This platform is made for customization. As soon as the development community catches up with concern/demand then I think Wave will be far more refined and valuable as a productivity tool. I think it's way too early to say its overhyped but it certainly makes for a great blog title :) Have a great time out in HMB with Chase today.
- Jim Goldstein
How about that, you're absolutely right Robert.
- Peter Kruit
I think I mentioned a month ago that people were going to be overwhelmed by this and it may be too soon to launch to the public.
- Jesse Stay
This is one of those times where I'm happy to let the gang of 2000 beat it up before getting in.
- Stuart Miniman
You are in the gang of 2000. Sorry, Stu.
- Louis Gray
Imagine a Twitter network with five people on it, none of whom actually work on any of the same projects you need to finish this week.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Am I the only one who has been puzzled when people started saying "this is gonna be the new facebook/twitter"? I watched the whole 1.5 hour demo video and that thought never crossed my mind, nor did using it with dozens upon dozens of people at a time. The only things I saw them demo was a variety of tasks between a handful of friends or colleagues. Robert's right, when you've got a ton...
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- brendan
I didn't get an invite, so good.
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
pfff who needs an invite anyways...
- sofarsoShawn
Gee I wonder who overhyped it?
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I collaborate with others to actually do things. Yes, Wave is young, but damn! I see its potential and I declare it awesome.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Google Wave passes the twitter test. Lots of folks didn't get twitter (and still don't) when it first appeared. GW will follow a similar trajectory..geek early adoption and later mass adoption. I like it that people don't quite get GW which means that people will use it in multiple ways, as they do twitter. I project that it will live up to the hype much like the iPhone.
- Jim Posner
Or it'll follow the FriendFeed curve: a few geeks will get it, use it, become dedicated to it, it'll never see mass adoption, then the engineers will get recruited to work on other projects and the technology will just get folded into other systems...
- Ken Sheppardson
My understanding is the intent was to re-invent email. So I see the gmail population eventually ending up on GW. Google as a rule has had few bombs. Certainly the GW platform will evolve (filters) to address some of the concerns Robert has.
- Jim Posner
interesting review, i will have to check it out for myself! twitter(at)locspoc
- Loc
Can't wait to see how the users evolve ways of using it that help to moderate the wave. Appreciate the fact that Robert and others (some of you) are sharing this experience and these diverse reactions.
- Holly Rae, FFer
Agreed, Scoble. I don't see this as a good friendfeed replacement anymore.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
There is Etherpad and Zenbe ShareFlow. I would wait and see how GoogleWave evolves.
- Wins Fern
Nice to see you present some critical thoughts on this, and I must say that your comments seem very sensible! I would also like to point to services like Etherpad when it comes to real-time collaboration on documents, and I also think there seems to be (potentially) a lot of noise in Google Wave. It will be interesting to see though :-)
- Reidar
Modern Day Mosaics by Charis Tsevis - http://www.tsevis.com/
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fabulous! great find, baby! <333
- Live4Emma (L4S)
:* <333
- Emma
Very cool, I love it !
- Olivier Castets
These are all really done in Pencil: Part Two
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Shenannigans
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
r u sure , they are done in pencil ?? The jpeg has some strange watermarks within.. need to scan the raw exifr data within the jpeg. I am doubting that this is pencil only !~
- Peter Dawson
searcing for a specialist to decide that those are fake or real drawings :)
- Burçak Çubukçu
Peter can I send you some of the originals? We might as well find out the truth. I'm curious about a couple of them.
- Michael Fidler
I think they are real
- Manuela
I'am a sceptic. If those are real drawings. Somebody has to prove it. Is there a video link that some one actualy draw one of these for instance?
- Burçak Çubukçu
Just to show you Burçak, that I'm curious about the truth also, I've done a little investigating myself. I found the original picture from which the Jesica Alba drawing is copied. http://bit.ly/gAXX
- Michael Fidler
how'd you get Johnny Depp to sit still for so long?
- Nathan Rein
Michael, I do belive in "PHOTOSHOP". Anyway thank you for your efforts.
- Burçak Çubukçu
Burçak Çubukçu I think I'm leaning a little in your direction now. After overlaying the two images, they're practically identical. There is a tiny difference on the ruffle of her dress, but otherwise they are the same. To be honest, they "could" be photoshopped!
- Michael Fidler
ok Jessica Alba's could be a drawing...
- Burçak Çubukçu
drawing photo-realistically isn't hard when you're copying a photograph. they're probably real but not really art. Just great artistic skillz.
- JoEllen
Naturally the celebrities had to come from some type of original work, and a photo is the most likely candidate. I am starting to notice some small texture differences, especially in the one with Johnny Depp. BTW, I found the original for that too. It's on the cover of the DVD for the movie.
- Michael Fidler
Here's a link to three more. These ones look like they were definitely drawn http://bit.ly/OvxZb
- Michael Fidler
@The Other Brian (Norwood), You cold be right, and perhaps that explains why some of the detailed work was left out on the Johnny Depp piece. Here's a link to a few more, which are more obvious, but still came from the same set http://bit.ly/tklrX
- Michael Fidler
I own a book called "How to Draw Lifelike Portraits from Photographs" by Lee Hammond. It shows all the techniques and phases of creating something like this in pencil and graphite. So... Yes, it is possible. If you ask me, though, this is an artform best left to the ADD set.
- Angela
Kol, I can't thank you enough! Kol found a different posting, which proves these are all pencil drawings. I had my doubts about a few of them, because they were collected from several locations. The site Kol found has done a wonderful job pulling together an even more impressive collection .Take a look. http://www.flickzzz.com/2009...
- Michael Fidler
No worries, Michael. :-) Shame we couldn't find all the artists.
- Kol Tregaskes
top right picture: http://aramismarron.deviantart.com/art...
- james foor
Thank's James!!! Actually I've been waiting for two month's for someone to bring these back up. Since I posted them in March, I've not only discovered who all three of the artists are, but found some new one's as well. I'm going to look for info on the artists, and post it. Could you please pop-up the other one as well? I would prefer to post it there. It's the one with a bear, lion, and I believe a tiger on it. Thanks again!
- Michael Fidler
Here's the link to the other set; http://ff.im/1Aepj.
- Michael Fidler
James, I just saw the post you left on the other set. Sorry I missed it. For the record, I always knew that these were copies of photographs. I ran them through TinEye before posting anything in the hopes of discovering the artists. In the comments, several people correctly pointed this out as well. However, it still doesn’t diminish the quality of the work.
- Michael Fidler
Just did a really great interview/chat with @jennifered on her show: talked tech, trends & trolls (among other things) http://www.blogtalkradio.com/jennife...
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Like Rebecca Coleman?
- Jerry Perez
+1 Jerry
- ChiliMac
*sigh* Am I going to have to teach you people more hip-hop slang valedictions?
- Paul Reynolds
Ach, it's hip hop, we could just name random objects and it'd probably still be valid
- Amy
i didnt use it right?
- Fee501st
i was leaving work when i type that
- Fee501st
You did right, Fee. You done good.
- Paul Reynolds
I'M YELLING!!!
- Fleagle
I was going to teach you the 20 year old term "Swayze". But given recent events, I'm torn between it being crass or incredibly appropriate. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define...
- Paul Reynolds
OK, no more picking on Rebecca!
- Veronica
Can we still say Audi 5000?
- Fee501st
I don't see why not.
- Veronica
cool, im listening to this Interview, its a long one, very good so far, but it nice to see the Veronica supporters came out for it!
- Fee501st
I'm glad Audi 5000 is still on the table, since I submitted a video question for Tekzilla... :)
- Thomas
"OK, no more picking on Rebecca!"- "Yo Veronica . . . I really like you, Im'a let you finish, but Rebecca had one the best Friendfeed accounts of ALL TIME . . ." - Kanye West
- John Craft
yea and some of us have already seen it, you'll like it Veronica lol!
- Fee501st
Great interview Veronica! Just got done! That's sweet that you mention us, your Fun group of people on FF!
- Fee501st
:)
- Veronica
Really enjoyed the interview. Now I just need my Tekzilla fix.
- Eric Novitsky
@Veronica Luck? No such thing. One of my favorite motivational quotes is "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." Kudos to you!
- Jude
There are many reasons I think you rock Veronica but a comment like this ("OK, no more picking on Rebecca") would be number 1! :D
- ChiliMac
I like that @jennifered asked questions that traversed a broad range of technology. A couple of them I was going "oh this ought to be good, does she know that?". Jennifer is a good interviewer who dove into your experience and not just being a pretty TV host. I very much liked it. And my other comment is... Second Life still exists?
- Dave Friedel
Just saw the first iPhone app demoed that I want: Tick Talk Robot. It is an alarm clock that reads you news from RSS feeds. Developer says it will be on iPhone store in a couple of weeks #iphonedevcamp
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Scoble at iPhoneDevCamp: http://danielbru.posterous.com/robert-...
- Daniel Brusilovsky
Damn the iPhone spell checker! :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Of course, FriendFeed-ing.
- Daniel Brusilovsky
This sucks! They did also with C-63 emulator,shame!
- z3bbster
Hey!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Very cool
- Johnny
for free?
- Asgod Barrantes
an RSS reader that verbally reads RSS works for me any time -- especially when I'm driving
- Ernest Lehmann
I wonder how it would work on an iPhone given that applications cannot run in the background. Hm. But there is a way to push audio through Apple's push service - maybe that would do it.
- Nitesh Dhanjani
way to geeky for me
- Ouriel Ohayon
The app is now available on the app store. Its under the name Tick Talk. It has a nice polished interface including an animated robot that speaks the news, and an easy to set alarm mode so you can wake up to the news being read.
- Jot Kali
The voice is a little rough, but cool idea! http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Ken Morley
How to tell if you are a geek:
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Tonight I was faced with this scene at a party in Indianapolis for Monster Energy drink and I figure it is a good way to tell if you are a geek. If you first impulse is to ask the girls for help with your Ubuntu install, you are probably a geek. If you start wondering about what cool iPhone apps they use, you are probably a geek. If you want to ask them where the best places to find wifi in Paris are, you are probably a geek. If you want to invite them to a Facebook party you are probably a geek. If you ask them what they think of Android you are probably a geek.
- Robert Scoble
from email
به به , چشم مریم خانم روشن
- Mil∂d
@scobleizer you follow the scobleizer on here?
- Prolific Programmer
from IM
By the way, I am a geek. :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
If you ignore them entirely and check out what's playing on the media player in the background, you're probably a geek.
- Akiva Moskovitz
If you can't spell "Ubuntu" do you get your geek cred's revoked?
- Joel Bennett
If your first impulse is to correct @scobleizer on his spelling of Ubuntu in his post . . . you're a geek.
- Michael Owens
So did you have wild sex with them?
- Dave Winer
geek --->
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
slut :)
- Jeunelle Foster
Well Robert, what did they answer to all these questions? <--- Geek.
- Bettina Tizzy
if you dont care, for once, what scoble has to say, and are simply wondering where to find these girls...what are you?
- Zachary Adam Cohen
sluts*
- Michael Owens
If you know for a fact the girls don't care at all about you and are only there as paid advertisements, AND you still don't care and want to gawk and hang out and get photos with them anyway...you might be a geek.
- Josh Haley
Scoble is a womanizer hahahaha
- Jeunelle Foster
Damn, Josh, why not just go ahead and win the Internet for yourself, why don't you.
- Akiva Moskovitz
It might be a new ad for s3.
- Trey Ratcliff
Thank you, sir.
- Josh Haley
Dave: I am talking with you so what do you think? :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Dave + Scoble: That's a yes.
- Michael Owens
Zachary: they are in downtown Indy.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
If you ask them their thoughts on Faccebook acquiring FriendFeed, you're a geek.
- imabonehead
I wonder if Scoble's pickup line is "Hi, Who Are You?"
- Bastard Operator From FF
What the.. Why bother blogging this crap when you could actually be striking up riveting conversation..
- Pogmohoin
Imabonehead: definitely!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
on my way, just gonna fire up my get and break out the Nair for Men
- Zachary Adam Cohen
from email
oh btw sluts*
- Pogmohoin
"Hi, I'm Robert Scoble, who are you?"
- Prolific Programmer
from IM
You guys are a bunch of pathetic losers. Robert did you ask them what their astrological sign was? and if you did you are a geek who's desperate :)
- Jeunelle Foster
If you immediately turn to your iPhone and write about it on FriendFeed you are a geek
- Jesse Stay
I'm pretty sure I am still a geek, but there is no way any of those questions come to mind when I see this picture. And I think if those questions come to anyone's mind here, it might be time for geek-rehab.
- Bill Grant
Pogmohin: I talked with them for a while. Nice people but didn't know what Android was so I moved on.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
hahahaha
- Jeunelle Foster
This post is just a cover story for why does Robert have this picture, anyway?
- Jason Wehmhoener
So is "What do you think of Android?" the new Turning test?
- Micah Wittman
thinking you can pick up said girls by telling them you wrote an iphone app and expecting them to get excited about it then you're a geek.
- evablue
Yeah.. I am from FHM mag.. Want to make the big time baby.. Now can the girl at the rear just reach around to the one at the front more...click .. front page Roberts Screen Saver..
- Pogmohoin
Damn. Best photo you've ever taken!
- Mike Flynn
Me: confronted with this scene, I'm a slut first, then a geek. ;) (Mike: hella observant!)
- Dennis Jernberg
You could also be gay, or female, but that would be in a non-geek-centric universe, so I could be wrong. ;)
- Lisa Norman
I have a feeling this is going to show up in the daily "Best Of Your Friendfeed" for anyone subscribed to Scoble.
- Michael Owens
Michael: You're right! This one wins the whole day. ;)
- Dennis Jernberg
Also, there is an iPod in the background -- clearly these are Apple Fan-girls.
- Bill Grant
"Android? Oh, haven't met him yet. Is he still at the party?" *leaves room*
- Micah Wittman
What were we talking about again?
- Derrich
Bill: Sure enough, iPod, docked.
- Dennis Jernberg
The girl at the right said her name was Ashley. Actually she said she was "Smashley." love that.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Ashley owes me money and I better not run into her or her face would be smashley
- Jeunelle Foster
Bill: yup. I picked up on the iPod very quickly at the party. I am hoping Ashley sends me her play list!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
@Micah -- Me: "No, that's Mandroid. He stayed home. Wasn't cool enough. Android is...(way short explanation)"
- Dennis Jernberg
If you take a picture of three beautiful girls, post it on FF, and your first inclination is to write a caption that includes the words Ubuntu, iphone Apps and Android - OR if you comment on such a post... You are definitely a geek.
- Rob Rose
By the way none of the three had been to Europe so they couldn't help me with good places to get wifi for LeWeb.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
If you help them sign up for Facebook, FriendFeed, and Twitter, you're a geek.
- imabonehead
Well they don't look like they know how to boil rice
- Jeunelle Foster
Been to Europe?? Man did they say the best thing that come out of Europe was "The Final Countdown" from their Daddy's "86 with a Bullet" tape!! http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Pogmohoin
This scene was the geek's dream while posting this. :)
- Bundit
imabonehead: actually they are already on Facebook. Which says something about how mainstream Facebook has gotten.
- Robert Scoble
All the Facebook friends in my family (except for my brother) are definitely nongeeks.
- Dennis Jernberg
anyone reading this is a geek
- Brendon Wadey
++++++++++GooglePlex, Akiva!
- Melanie Reed
Well I know I'm a geek. When someone like me, who spends a lot of time helping a sexy geek like Marina Orlova of http://hotforwords.com because she speaks geek and is enjoyable to work with. I might even venture to say she's a bit of a computer nerd. When Marina wakes up the first thing she does is check her email. When she gets ready for bed she can be found tweeting before she retires...
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- Captain Jack
Captain Jack: she sounds cool. What apps does she have on her iPhone?
- Robert Scoble
Were they impressed by the size of your lens, Robert?
- Vezquex: God of FF
Raphael: I didn't have that with me tonight. Was going low key. :-)
- Robert Scoble
wow
- EhsanDiary
If Robert had taken that shot with is 600mm, he would have had to have been 3 blocks away and you would be able to see the the flecks of color in their eyes :) You are looking at their eyes right?? -- My first thought was well, they can't be geeks as everyone knows true Geeks drink Red Bull not Monster :P Monster isn't all bad, they are big supporters of Surfrider and International Surfing day ----> Surfing Geek
- Luke Kilpatrick
If you're a geek, why are you asking someone else for help with your Ubuntu installation? Shouldn't you figuring that out yourself? Turn in your geek card, now.
- Andy Bakun
Yeah, they'd have to ask you to help with their Ubuntu installation. Except if they don't know what Android is, they probably haven't heard of Ubuntu either.
- Dennis Jernberg
This Ubuntu question can relate this photo and the Ubuntu logo, then that's a geeky question. (I mean this http://www.flickr.com/photos... )
- Mahmood Padura
Actually, I was going to ask what the gadget was on top of the microwave-minifridge combo.
- Jay Cuthrell
I'm guessing it's an MP3 player (in the slot) and some kind of speaker array combo?
- Jay Cuthrell
I guess the answer is: regardless of whatever you do, you are a geek :-)
- Ethan Gahng
It would be a lot easier to tell if those three people were not in the way of the shiny thing in the back of the photo.
- Jay Cuthrell
I think Robert took this photo just to keep me wondering all night about that mystery device.
- Jay Cuthrell
Geek here :) I'd do a print 'Hello, Girls !'
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
damn it Scoble! I have to like this.
- rob friedman
looks like my weekends
- sean percival
did they recognize you as the "scobleizer" ???
- zʍıɔ
New blog topic: the decline and fall of FriendFeed
- A Mitchell
What's that coming over then hill?
- Nick B.
"Well, hello there, sexy ladies! Would you like to come up to my place and read my @scobleizer feed? Hmm?" -bow-chicka-wow-wow-
- Kevin Leroux
wow. I couldn't even make out what was that thing in the BG. I noticed the additional thumb/thigh in front -so that makes me a photo geek??
- jomarhilario
Oh my! Now I'm sure I'm not a geek! Hahaha they are beautiful as hell!
- Rafael
if you find this picture of these attractive women on this page you are probably a geek...even if you don't read every single comment...including this one.
- Lee Sachs
Some of us geeks know what we're doing with women.
- Tyler Hurst
true dat,, you really can have it all
- Zachary Adam Cohen
from email
Oh, how gorgeous. You've got to love that Ipod design.
- James Kuypers
I can tell the way the Hottie on da Right is looking at me that she really likes ME a lot!!!
- Billy Warhol
@James I hereby award you the true geek award for your spotting of the iPod in this picture. =P (Special mention to the others who said MP3 player) - Silver iPod Nano I would think.
- Travis Koger
Perhaps you need to add this app to your iPhone: http://www.beakerbreakers.com/nerdale...
- Chad McCoskey
from iPhone
Admit it: you told them you were Philip Seymour Hoffman.
- Maxwell Kennerly
Two things. 1) Geeks do it better AND 2) they're not sluts... they're leveraging their assets... more power to them
- Ankush Narula
davşan kızlara benziyorlar beaaa.
- Pilot23
Really lol Scoble maybe u had been having 2 much fun @ the racetrack & geeks does attract some attractive wolla
- polou/indigo_bow
Funny old world three attractive women in a fun pose at a launch party and it creates enormous interest? Funny how things never really change in human habits, geek yep that's me but this article made me smile a lot, keep snapping away Robert.
- Ian Wright
If you are writing a disclaimer on a picture, you took at a party, because you don't want to be locked out of the house by your wife, you are a SMART geek:)
- Maryam Scoble
from iPhone
double like for Maryam :D
- Alberto D'Ottavi
+1 Maryam
- imabonehead
Best of day.
- beersage
If you ask them how big their racks are, and you mean rackspace server size, then you are a geek.
- Matt Soreco
If you whip out your iPhone, take their picture, and bring them home .... you're a HOT geek !
- Christopher Yeo
Totally....
- N.G. Gordon - RadarSync
Keep up the good work Scoble! :-)
- Garin Kilpatrick
Heh, love that Maryam commented on this. I miss her and my two buddies. I'm just wondering why TechCrunch doesn't have parties like Monster drinks! ;-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert, you'll just have to bring a case or two of Monster to your next TC visit and see what happens.... just make sure the cam is on.
- Jay Cuthrell
Jeez, I must not be geekish at all — *my* first thoughts are all carnal.
- Hieronymus Murphy
I guess I am not a geek. :/
- PJ Edwards
Me, I'm a mutant. ;)
- Dennis Jernberg
3 girls 2 cups
- HansVanRock
Only qx...which was your first impulse? I pray for your sake it was to throw down camera & decide where u were going to be in Blonde sandwich. :-)
- Brenda Rothaupt
Dreaming of fruity drinks on the beach...
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Looks inviting. Where was it taken?
- StockC
It is from my dream last night. I was dancing on a rooftop deck then hit the beach for a peaceful morning.
- Fossil Huntress
outnumbered?
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Meerkats FTW!!!!!!
- Roberto Bonini
Great picture.
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
Reminds me of one episode of Meerkat manor, when the whiskers try to drive the snake away.
- ashish
What's the plural for mongoose? Mongeese?
- Maggie
Things FriendFeed isn't good for:
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Online banking
- Glen Campbell
from iPhone
Resolving arguments
- Glen Campbell
from iPhone
Making my dinner
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Watching first-run movies (but it's great for finding movies to watch)
- Glen Campbell
from iPhone
Babysitting my child.
- Michelle Martinez
Keeping Robert Scoble quietly amused.
- Glen Campbell
from iPhone
Scratching my back
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Making my thumb stop twitching.
- Yolanda
I have yet to see Friend Feed fold any of my Laundry.
- Brent - Long Live Rock
Constructing robot swarms
- Mo Kargas
Sorting dirty diapers.
- Rochelle
The procurement and consumption of mangoes.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Friend feed sucks at washing my car.
- Brent - Long Live Rock
Walking my dogs
- CW™
Butchering livestock
- Glen Campbell
from iPhone
Deflating my sense of self-importance.
- Derrick Burns
Driving me to the beach.
- Ryan Massie
Papier-machè
- Glen Campbell
from iPhone
Feeding friends
- Glen Campbell
from iPhone
Refilling my iced latte.
- Yolanda
Replacing contact lenses
- Glen Campbell
from iPhone
Finding a boyfriend.
- Derrick
Getting laided
- Matt Ruiz
Wiping up the can Alphaghetti I dropped on the kitchen floor.
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
Fixing margaritas
- Glen Campbell
from iPhone
making my coffee
- Kim Landwehr
Porn, well that's actually a lie...
- Matt Ruiz
Solving the world's problems.
- Alex Scoble
Oral
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Saving time.
- CAJ, somewhere else
Paying my bills.
- CW™
@Haggis That's what you think!
- The Bohemian Penguin
@Penguin DEMO PLX
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Productivity.
- Robert Scoble
Productivity, I agree with you Mr. Scoble. :)
- Oğuz Serdar
LOL yeah, what @Robert said
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
letting me do anything else, and especially my job!
- archi_bald
Chili con queso.
- Glen Campbell
Pulling strudel.
- Kate Foy
GETTING ALCOHOL
- mjc
having a life that doesn't involve the internet.
- Colette
Farming.
- अभिषेक(Abhishek) Das
@Colette what is that? I've never heard of it before
- mjc
Ping pong with nuclear warheads
- Mo Kargas
I don't know, I haven't been able to find one of them available for downloading...
- Colette
It's kind of a legend I've heard whispered here and there.
- Colette
repairing flats
- Glen Campbell
Walking the dog. *which reminds me*
- Kate Foy
bringing in the empty trash can *which reminds me*
- Glen Campbell
Warming up a cold burrito.
- Mitch
Promoting sleep
- Her Lindsay-ness
Finding your first girlfriend
- Yuvi
potty-training a toddler.
- Joe Silence is not dead
potty-training a bassist.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Walking your dog.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Spamming people
- Alex Scoble
Riding me to work.
- Ton Zijp
Prostate exams
- Glen Campbell
from iPhone
Getting Things Done
- Melanie Langenhan
Job security.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Play subbuteo
- Paolo Barresi
playing
- Paolo Barresi
Seeing oneself at the mirror
- Paolo Barresi
Learning english (for me)
- Paolo Barresi
taking medications
- Jérôme Flipo
It did a horrible job waxing my car.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
FriendFeed ate my dog!
- Rubin Sfadj
A toast topping
- Tyson Key
Fractional distillation of crude oil.
- Tyson Key
Seeing Italia-Francia 2006 :-)
- Paolo Barresi
Interstellar space travel
- Tyson Key
Repelling flies
- Tyson Key
Time travel, too :-)
- Paolo Barresi
I wouldn't be so sure about time travel, Paolo.
- Rubin Sfadj
Aah, but the search function lets you do a limited form of that, Paolo. Let's see what else they've got. ;)
- Tyson Key
Avoiding memes?
- Rubin Sfadj
FriendFeed Is Not A Flying Toy
- Tyson Key
Getting stoned (like Greg House)
- Paolo Barresi
Washing and drying hair
- Tyson Key
Annexing the Sudetenland.
- Internet's Tad
eheheh
- Paolo Barresi
Invading Switzerland
- Tyson Key
Helping me sleep at night
- Tyson Key
Performing Houdini-style break-outs from several locked boxes?
- Tyson Key
Providing the Internet connection used to access FriendFeed...
- Tyson Key
Not good at being popular in media. I think that is good for now.
- ashish
Alex: Yeah, you do that on Twitter ;-)
- Amir
FriendFeed isn't good for those who want to miss interesting stuffs.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Computing the next prime number after 2^43112609-1
- Shivanand Velmurugan
Finding the meaning of life .... and Liff
- Shivanand Velmurugan
10 People To Follow On FriendFeed For June 2009 - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
Craig Deakin, Mitchell Tsai, Rob Michael (Atmos Trio) and 86 other people liked this
Highlighted are: 1) Layne Heiney http://friendfeed.com/lph 2) Alex Scoble http://friendfeed.com/itblogg... 3) Trish Robinson http://friendfeed.com/trishro... 4) Paul Buchheit http://friendfeed.com/paul 5) Shey Smith http://friendfeed.com/shey 6) Adam Helweh http://friendfeed.com/secrets... 7) Mary Ann Chick Whiteside http://friendfeed.com/mcwflint 8) Bwana McCall http://friendfeed.com/bwana 9) Rob Michael http://friendfeed.com/atmostr... 10) Rahsheen Porter http://friendfeed.com/rahsheen
- Louis Gray
Hey -- P is going to be so excited to see the list.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
from BuddyFeed
Hey I know those people!
- Derrick
All great!
- Martha
I think there should be an international investigation into the fact Rahsheen wasn't included until now. :) I always assumed he had been, and that oversight has been rectified.
- Louis Gray
nice batch of folks... :)
- Nathan Chase
You know the month is nearly over when this list comes out. Well done. Keep em coming ... one day ....
- Amani
Sorry I am perpetually late, Amani. It's all I can do to meet the deadline. These aren't cheap two paragraph posts! :)
- Louis Gray
Great list. I'm only missing two here! :: adding ::
- Jorge Escobar
I thought I was subscribed to everyone because I see their posts all the time, bu that's because they're liked frequently.
- Heather
Woooo! I made the cut!
- Alex Scoble
Wow-thanks for the inclusion Louis! That caught me totally off-guard.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
And sad to say that Louis description about me is pretty much spot on. :)
- Alex Scoble
Oh how cool, thanks Louis!
- Trish R
Oh, except on MOST days I'm more active here than my brother. :)
- Alex Scoble
I love that you do this!!! You are awesome Louis. :) Sitting on this list is like being on a REAL SUL! I liked being on it myself (plug, plug) ;-)
- Sheryl
Love the "Abs of Rah" shoutout :D
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Excellent list. I see two new people (to me)
- Josh Haley
How were Bwana, Alex, Rah and Shey never on the list? Seriously, how did we all miss those?
- Rob Diana
Ubiquitously awesome FFers always get overlooked. It's the "I can't believe I wasn't already subscribed to _____" effect.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Don't follow me. I don't like it to be followed everywhere I go.
- Didier Lahely
Great list, and not just because I'm on it :)
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
That is indeed a good list. If you are into FF, you already have these folks on your list.
- Bryan R. Adams
Great list - i was surprised these great folks weren't already on the previous lists! *scratches head*
- Susan Beebe
+100 Shey -- oh, and it IS great cuz YOU are ON the list - very cool and so well deserved :)
- Susan Beebe
Great list!
- Spencer
been following lph, bwana, and paul for a while for their tech insight, recently started following alex & rasheen for their interesting comments, thanks for giving us more interesting people to check out on this list :)
- Mike Chelen
Awesome list this month! Everyone there was already on my radar except for MaryAnn - going to check that out right now!
- Laura Norvig
I think I need to give Louis a break next month. Actually Rasheen and Shey were listed way back on the September list, I strayed off the pack that month and profiled 20 people. http://michaelfruchter.com/blog... Outstanding list this month otherwise, great job Louis!
- Mike Fruchter
What a surprise to come home to! Thanks!
- MaryAnn Chick Whiteside
from iPhone
Darn it Mike, how did I miss that one? Grr.
- Louis Gray
i was 1/10 on this list. and i listen to everything Louis says, so hello to the 9 of you :)
- Jim Halligan @jim
Another great list!
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks for the List. Its awesome
- Michael_techie
11 Ways To Boost Your Energy - http://www.forbes.com/2009...
Roney Smith, Jeremy Campbell, fijidaddy and 42 other people liked this
1. Eat Fewer Calories
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
from Bookmarklet
2. Never Skip Breakfast
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
3. Sleep
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
4. Exercise
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
5. Supplement
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
6. Detox
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
7. Combat Stress
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
8. Check Your Thyroid
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
9. Get Some Sun
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
10. Organize
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
here i got 1....and i relats to # 3....it wud be healthy if we sleep togethr..lol...wt do u thnk??
- TenyJ Williams
lol, whut?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
dnt u get wht i min??
- TenyJ Williams
LOL ANIKA... enjoy!!;-)
- TenyJ Williams
com on shey tok to me... im diein here!
- TenyJ Williams
*wonders to herself: do people KNOW when they're being creepy and weird online?*
- tiffany
who r u actualy takin bout?
- TenyJ Williams
*takes a closer look at tenyj's feed* really? a solange knowles spammer? *block*
- tiffany
and so?? i min whts ur point?? any1 cud c tht shes "SOLANGE KNOWLES"
- TenyJ Williams
Anika, pass me some of that popcorn.
- Ayşe E.
I've seen some things lately that say 5. May not be as good as once thought.
- Vince DeGeorge
hey tiffy...continue,i c ur vry good at pointing out vhu ppl are.... so y u stoping nw??? com on giv me ur best shot....SENCIERLY FROM:tenyj....ooops i min SOLANGE KNOWLES...*u knw wht i min ryt* (oh and dont u worry,il update MY own pic for u to c soon....)
- TenyJ Williams
*takes a seat next to Anika and Ayşe*
- Her Lindsay-ness
hey whts wrng tif?? com on...
- TenyJ Williams
Why can't spammers spell? What is with that? Premature ejection from school? Ineffective spell checker?
- Martha
who knows martha. i am impressed by teny's interaction though. this is high-quality spamming / trolling.
- tiffany
I'm having a hard time deciphering TenyJ's unique grasp of the english language. But maybe you should sleep with her/him, Shey. ETA: Creeeeeeeepy feed. Shey gettin' cyberstalked. I'mma write a Lifetime movie about you. Regina King can play Jasmin. Not sure who can play you.
- B. Hatin
ok BARONESS.....Tl me whts wrng wit my english huh? nd by the wy im afemale,so dnt use him/her...nd let me nt forgt tht hole thng whn i sed shey nd i sleeping together tht ws just a joke,and i ws jst plyin....
- TenyJ Williams
...thanks Shey. i've been in need of some energy lately. Anika, you got anymore of that popcorn? .LOLz
- .LAG liked that
ppl i thnk its enf pop crn nw,REALY!!
- TenyJ Williams
Wow, in the 90's, I used to let the guys on IRC assume I was male in order to avoid comments like TenyJ's first one. I did assume she was joking, but what a 180.
- MiniMage, sheeple of FF
@TenyJ... but we needs our energy, and popcorn is non-fattening... crunch, crunch! .LOLz
- .LAG liked that
Yeah, Baroness, whts wrng wit her english huh? *dead* I'm popping MORE popcorn y'all.
- Anika
OK i cn c tht yall ar truly hating on me...bt its al gud..enjoy ur snaks hey.
- TenyJ Williams
Wow.
- Rob
This thread tickles me. Is there popcorn for me? So who should play Shey in my Lifetime movie??
- B. Hatin
dwayne johnson or ice cube
- tiffany
Yeah, I thought the rock at first, but I wasn't really feeling it. And I think Ice Cube's too old. I don't think Shey's even 30 yet?
- B. Hatin
drake? drake is canadian, beige, and an actor.
- tiffany
Okay the headline says 11, but the list only goes to 10.
- Alix Whitmire
I just tried to check my thyroid. I think i'm pregnant now. I'm doing it wrong.
- Steve C
Alix, perhaps he became a little unnerved and took a break.
- MiniMage, sheeple of FF
Kaia, you are too funny LOL
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
@tiffany Dwane Johnson. YES.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
@Kaia No, not 30 yet, but who cares, it's The Rock!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Sorry it took us a bit to block the spammer .
- Tracy Benham
Am i late for the party...coz i c alot of entertainment......*TO A HANDFULL OF POPCORN*
- Ashanti
Dell's new Z: I am throwing away my Mac when this comes out: - http://ourdoings.com/roberts...
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Darren Rollett, Robert J Taylor, Rocio Flores and 139 other people liked this
I can't tell you how I got this photo and I can't tell you why I am dumping my Mac when this comes out but this is the first Dell that has me slobbering in a very long time.
- Robert Scoble
Really??
- Gerry Realtyman Bourgeois
Hey, T'row it ober here!
- Gary Etie
Still Windoze-infected, right?
- Bill L
Can you give us more details on the configuration and the size factor?
- Amit Nangare
just like you threw away your Iphone for the Pre.
- nesman89
Instead of throwing your Mac away, can I have it?
- Victor Ganata
The Dell Z looks awesome
- johnny2009
I'll buy your Mac....uh, you take checks, right?
- Mike Lewis
problem with Dell computers, is they still run Windows. Unless you want to deal with Linux
- Andrew Lombardi
I agree with John
- Mike Brewer
Er, okay. Does it run OS X?
- Grant Goodale
well good luck with that! :-)
- teymur madjderey
Didn't you say something similar about the Nokia N97 a few months ago?
- Beau Giles
You've got to tell me more than that for me to believe why you might throw your Mac away??
- Aaron Myers
Really - with the build quality they are renown for!!
- Ian Lewis
If it runs windows 7 then at least there is some reason for this madness. Anything else and you've completely lost your mind!
- Devlin Dunsmore
Amit: I can't explain why, sorry, but this will get a lot of attention and Apple will have to react to it. Why do you think Apple has been attacking Windows 7?
- Robert Scoble
Looks like a "laptop" and it's "black".
- thund3rbox
Yes, it looks sleek, but it's still a Dell.
- Bob Young
Dude! You're getting a Dell!
- Andrew Lombardi
From the keyboard, it looks like a 15.4" or 17" widescreen that's super thin. (keyboard is chiklet-style)
- Eugene Hsu
You can't throw out your mac! You'll eventually be crawling back.
- Matt Ruiz
Yes, I got excited by the Palm Pre but I don't think I said the Pre would get me to throw away my iPhone. Of course we don't know what Apple will do but this will make Apple guys at least raise their eyebrows.
- Robert Scoble
Throwing away your Mac is a bad idea.
- Louis Gray
May I suggest to sell The Original Scoble MacBook Pro on ebay and hand the money in for charity?
- Ralf Rottmann
NokiaN97 does widescreen videos with new Qik, by the way. iPhone doesn't.
- Robert Scoble
Wow it must be something big. Please keep us up with details when you're allowed to make them public.
- Asgod Barrantes
Don't throw your Mac away!! Keep it as 'backup', you might need it ... ;) ;)
- Ronald
Asgod: believe me Engadget will be all over this.
- Robert Scoble
This was rolled out to selected laptop users 4-5 months ago, wasn't it? Lots of drooling, if I recall. But you should keep your Mac as a backup. And so far as "I can't tell you how I got this photo ..." is concerned, what's with the name tag on the fellow doing the Vana White?
- Bob Young
Devilin, why would it not run Win7?
- Christopher A Carr
Louis: I will give away my Mac instead of throwing it away.
- Robert Scoble
i will take it robert :)
- Allen Stern
Robert, how about donating it to JHTC (for auctioning) to help us launch our charitable arm?
- Bill L
Looks kind of clunky, seams don't match, build quality doesn't look near the Mac so there must be something that's not obvious.
- PXLated
I will fight Allen for it Robert
- Jesse Stay
PXLated: Clunky? Really?
- Christopher A Carr
BTW, that looks like the NYSE - sounds like you met a Dell rep on the floor?
- Jesse Stay
It is the NYSE
- Asgod Barrantes
Ya, in the pics with the black and gape-looking seams
- PXLated
I'm a Mac and nothing Dell does could change that
- Dean Kakridas
Hmmm..."throw away"...does that mean Dell's going eco-friendly like Apple?
- Jesse Stay
Um, if you're going to throw it away I'll take your Mac!!
- Mona Nomura
Looks real thin though
- PXLated
Mona you have to fight Allen and I for it first
- Jesse Stay
I'm thinking full solid state, very fast
- Jesse Stay
Nooo... I wanted a Dell 15' with nice reso but no HD. Not avaliable in Europe. I had to buy a MacBook Pro. Received today. Nice but I loved my Latitude.
- Jérôme Flipo
BTW, nice tattoo's Robert! When did you get those?
- Dean Kakridas
And with that very light and low on heat
- Jesse Stay
so what's the specs on it ? intel T9900, DDR3?
- Khaled A
over at notebookreview there is a huge thread about it already http://bit.ly/pp83N
- Ronald
touch screen? that doesn't seem mac-trash-worthy. flips around like a tablet, with touch screen? nah. super battery with built in wimax or 4G connectivity? maybe.
- Chip Ramsey
Dean, per the nametag that's @rockmanusa, Robert's producer/photographer
- Jesse Stay
WOW!
- Holly Rae, FFer
I'm intrigued by the google map you have attached with it ... battery park city?! Sounds quite interesting indeed, but I won't be interested, unless it can polish my shoes, feed the cats, and wash itself every 3 hours :) Ohh I wouldn't mind if it has a proper multi-touch trackpad.
- Shivanand Velmurugan
^^ :D ^^
- Ronald
found a page with more pictures http://www.pclaunches.com/noteboo...
- Khaled A
PXlated: I think I beat Engadget with a photo. It is an early prototype.
- Robert Scoble
mona vs. jesse vs. me = steel cage match for robert's laptop
- Allen Stern
at photos: make,make plz !!!
- Ronald
Allen: count me in if you want to upgrade to a steel cage, ladder match
- Shivanand Velmurugan
I know, I was kidding :)
- Dean Kakridas
from email
i need a mac so i can make an iphone app for cc - unless someone wants to make one for me :)
- Allen Stern
Allen: CC? Creative Commons?
- Shivanand Velmurugan
Robert the suspense is killing me!!!!!
- Chris Henderson
Other pics still don't turn me on - But, I like my Mac/OSX, have gotten great support at the Apple stores, there's more than just the box.
- PXLated
cc = cloudcontacts my startup
- Allen Stern
Asgod: I broke all sorts of rules to get this photo. Photography is expressly not allowed where I am. It is geek heaven though.
- Robert Scoble
robert - you might want to crop out the person's name who is in the photo :)
- Allen Stern
Well I need a mac for school and Robert, wow you're awesome I'm very impressed.
- Asgod Barrantes
Robert: So how did we get a photograph then?! (good ol' don't give a crap about the rulez eh? :) ) A lot of hype, it better be seriously good :)\
- Shivanand Velmurugan
it was leaked a few days earlier on another site though :>
- Khaled A
Good luck with that. Whatever helps you get the job done efficiently is OK w/me.
- barl0w
Allen I'm in - we'll do it when I'm out there in July. I warn you - I don't play by the rules though.
- Jesse Stay
"Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead" (Pulp Fiction)
- Andrew Eglinton
jesse - i will use all the social networks against you! i think mona's finisher is the fail whale
- Allen Stern
Allen, careful, I know the "Twitter Game"
- Jesse Stay
Allen & Jesse: Blood, gore .. is what we are looking for (throw in the ladder, and ustream it! ) :)
- Shivanand Velmurugan
And what about the Techcrunch Crunchpad?
- Francine Hardaway
to be the twitter you gotta beat the twitter
- Allen Stern
intel U9300 1.2GHz? that's not a very powerful cpu... what's your mac, scoble? an iBook?
- Khaled A
Eh...
- Internet's Tad
from fftogo
but a 2 pounds 16" notebook? that's interesting ...
- Khaled A
holly plant the Dell seed! thanks for the heads up.game changer?
- Jeff Marmins
Hmm, a 16" that weighs about the same as my Lenovo s10 netbook?
- Christopher A Carr
that's according the specs posted by Brian Hill: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpos...
- Khaled A
Who's the bigger sucker here ... Scoble ... or those sucked in by this post
- Don Strickland
are you serious? c'mon, it's a PC! The main component of any computer is not the hardware, it's SOFTWARE.
- Konstantin
Don: it does a few things your Mac doesn't.
- Robert Scoble
Konstantin: really? Why don't you use a Mac Classic then and why do all Mac fans slobbering when new hardware comes out? Finally you should try Windows 7 on your Mac. You might be surprised. I am running Windows 7 on my Mac.
- Robert Scoble
Francine: I am buying Crunchpads for a different reason.
- Robert Scoble
Can I just point out did a search for "scoble 'Palm Pre' 'throw away'" to see what you said back at CES... and Google already has the comments on this thread indexed?
- Ken Sheppardson
Jeff: I think this Dell will help Microsoft poke Apple in the eye again.
- Robert Scoble
I saw the specs, and it just doesn't *seem* that spectacular. Maybe it makes waffles and prints money...
- Carlton Prest
Ken: Google is getting faster, huh?
- Robert Scoble
so what will they call this new class of notebooks? under powered under 10" are netbooks. U9300 based 16" would be called .. hmm wafflebook
- Khaled A
Robert: Yeah, it's not Track, but I suspect it's certainly getting close enough for 80%+ of the population.
- Ken Sheppardson
Carlton: they have kept a few things secret.
- Robert Scoble
... the 80%+ who haven't used Track, that is ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
As I expected. Do you have any idea as to when they'll officially announce this?
- Carlton Prest
Carlton by when Microsoft ships Windows 7.
- Robert Scoble
facial recognition - that's a strange rumor.
- Chip Ramsey
I should expect Dell middle east to make a crappy keyboard print: http://twitpic.com/6o2rc redundancy fails
- Khaled A
finally: it is a Dell...
- Ronald
Nice, thanks for the heads up Robert. Don't mind the fanboy's calling you a heretic. ;)
- Adi
Has me curious. I'm not going to be so bold as to claim in an Apple "fanboish" way that nothing can possibly beat Apple.
- Angus Burton
19 hours of battery is impressive if true
- Brian Hill
"I can't tell you how I got this photo" -- Perhaps by standing next to Rocky as he held one on the NYSE floor yesterday? :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
100+ comments later... mission completed. You won't throw or give away your Mac for a Dell w/ Win 7
- Jonathan Brown
You'll hurt your shoulder carrying that thing around, but man, what a great screen!!
- RobinDotNet
Looks like picture was taken at the New York Stock Exchange. Maybe it's a multi-touch screen?
- Steve de Mena
Steve: all I can say is it has stuff Apple doesn't yet do.
- Robert Scoble
Robin: I have a bag with wheels for my Mac so my shoulder is OK. The photo was taken tonight.
- Robert Scoble
Microsoft Bing: We did not find any results for "tell you why I am dumping my Mac when this comes out but this is the first Dell" ~ giggle
- Don Strickland
This is why I f--- with you, Scoble. You always keep me on point. I'll keep an eye out for this "Z" you're referring to.
- © b e e n s w a n k
must have a oled display
- Jim Posner
I'm guessing it loads the Building43 site 10% faster, or it has Building43 bookmarked out of the box.
- Steve Wright
Im guessing touchscreen
- Kashif Khan
I'm glad you have a wheelie bag, now you can buy it with impunity and wheel it through airports all over the world, feeling happy about your awesome laptop. :-) (How much does it weigh?)
- RobinDotNet
@Robert "Steve: all I can say is it has stuff Apple doesn't yet do...." TBH, there has been a lot of things the Macbook line hasn't been up to par feature wise for a long time. This isn't nothing new. My 1yr old XPS has eSATA, "F/W", "ExpressCard", 10in1 MMC, Biometrics, HDMI, Blu Ray, 4USB and integrated 3G all of which would be 'show stoppers' if Apple announced them. So its all relative.
- Adi
Adi, those features would become "amazing" and "new" were they announced by Apple -- much the same way that video is suddenly an amazing new feature of iPhones.
- Christopher A Carr
Only two factory stickers, not bad!
- Onar Vikingstad
"has stuff Apple doesn't yet do" ... hmmm ... when placed on a Microsoft Surface it transforms into a puck for Microsoft Surface Hockey, played by waving your hands at the built-in Natal controllers.
- Don Strickland
@Christopher...touche. ;)
- Adi
Say it ain't so! Looks way cool.
- michelle lamar
Will it run Pro Tools. It seems as if I need to use it for digital editing of raw audio.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Mathew: I would imagine it would, but I don't have it to try that, so will have to wait to tell you definitively.
- Robert Scoble
Thanks, Robert. Being out of the music & video biz since '97 has me playing catch up. The KDHX studios where I will be working are a mac house.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Since it looks like a shell.. I will assume its the touchscreen with MS Surface on Windows 7 :)
- Tim Hoeck
When does this come out Robert?
- Amit Nangare
looks like old black macbook to me! nothing new at least not in image! whats so special?
- matjeka
To back Robert up, I got to try this bad boy right after him. And I can agree, this will make me switch too (after 25 solid years of Mac OS) Holy crap, Dell must have a secret time machine in the basement if 1/2 of these "special" features are true. WOW WOW WOW, and price...WOW!!!
- sean andersen
Robert, Honestly I am not really impressed by the picture, as some mentioned before it most likely is not Mac OS X, is it? And what about battery life, does it match the MBP 17 inch battery life time?
- Peter Simoons
I don't believe you :) Let's revisit this thread when it comes out and see if you follow through
- Bwana ☠
who's is it? I'll just ask them.
- Mark Essel
So this is going to bring beleaguered Dell out of the doldrums? Apple did that, but I'll not hold my breath because of Dell's basic build-em-cheap philosophy.
- Rick Cogley
there's claims it is sporting a Mobile Intel GMA 4500MHD, Series 4 for video.. if so, that's one giant missed opportunity!
- alphaxion
touch screen would be great, there is a big need in netbooks because of the improvement of usable input area
- Mike Chelen
ok, I'm also intrigued. I can't figure out what is so special about this new notebook.
- timepilot
Robert: Can have your Mac when you're done with it? :)
- John Fox
You'll be back. They all do.
- Diego Barros
Hmmm ... I am thinking Dell beat Crunchpad to market with a touchscreen running Win7... If so, Yay for Dell, way to go!!! I will definitely want a Z if so!! *Looks around for @RichardatDELL* :)
- Susan Beebe
The way things are going my mom will never get her new computer. I keep telling her something better is just around the corner.
- ChiliMac
^^ so true!
- Ronald
that thing looks massive. but I bet you don't actually switch to it when the time comes.
- felix
Yeah, do want to know what makes it so compelling over the Mac.
- Karma Martell
I have a MacBook Pro, and wouldn't drop it for anything.
- Geoff Peterson
Surely the OS is what's key? The hardware must be good but it can't make up for any deficiencies in the OS.
- Mayuresh Walke
Isn't this just another one of the Adamo line?
- JA Castillo
JA: nope.
- Robert Scoble
I'm assuming it's windows 7 multi touch and gestural support. The surface code that's now part of windows 7...
- mikepk
mikepk: there are more features than that that Apple doesn't yet have. Gotta wait, though, I promised not to leak.
- Robert Scoble
Dont throw it away! Im sure there are plenty of people that would love to have your old mac!
- James Hague
If it doesn't run OS X it's pointless.
- Peter Kruit
Peter: it runs it, but you can't buy OSX legally for use on non Apple computers. I totally disagree with your thesis, though. I'm running Windows 7 right now on my Mac and it works VERY NICELY.
- Robert Scoble
I'm sure Windows 7 is working nicely, but Windows just doesn't compare to OS X. Mind you, I've only been using OS X for a year now. Before that I was a Windows/DOS user.
- Peter Kruit
Peter: again, I totally disagree. It's clear you haven't tried Windows 7 out on your Mac yet. There are many things in it that are nicer than Apple has. Especially the toolbar and especially Google Chrome.
- Robert Scoble
I have tried Windows 7. It's the same registry and DLL hell that it's always been.
- Peter Kruit
Agree with Scoble... Win7 has many things nicer than OSX.
- Adnan
Peter: I haven't had a problem with DLL hell and the registry for years. I guess you still trying to run VB 2.0 apps? ;-)
- Robert Scoble
1. Never put anything into the registery unless it will affect another part of the system. 2. DLL hell ended in Win98. WinXP/2000 added a way to solve all DLL problems with no rebooting, but the coders have been lazy/ignorant (see #1).
- xero
hehe ;)
- Peter Kruit
I'm a poor geek on a fixed income and the only thing I ever wanted in the whole wide world is a Macbook Pro. :)
- jcunwired
Still a Dell though ;)
- Peter Kruit
Yes, case in point- and that's a deal breaker for just about any Mac user.
- Dean Kakridas
from email
I switched to Macs 3 years ago but I have to say Windows 7 will make me rethink that decision. It is much more than a "Vista Service Pack".
- Steve de Mena
My husband has a Dell laptop and it's really nice, so I am definitely gonna check the Z out...
- Susan Beebe
Peter: It is possible to install MAC OSX on your Dell thanks to the OSx86 Project: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki... Although it may not be entirely legal this is still going to happen and Apple should roll with it and embrace the hacker culture. If this Dell can run Boot Camp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...), and give users the option of running either Mac or Vista that would be awesome!
- Garin Kilpatrick
Garin: that's possibly the ultimate manifestation of "lipstick on a pig"!
- Dean Kakridas
from email
Dean: No way, Sarah Palin is the ultimate lipstick pig and Mac OSX on a Dell is cool!
- Garin Kilpatrick
Garin: that she is and might be the ultimate candidate for a Dell actually.
- Dean Kakridas
from email
Is there some new synchronization feature using Microsoft's Mesh technology or something? Win7 is suppose to have some Mesh tech built-in.
- Jeff Weber
Dean: Haha! Jeff: Mesh is probably windows only syncing, but I have not investigated. I use http://www.getdropbox.com/ for syncing my files between my PC and Mac, and it works great!
- Garin Kilpatrick
interesting! Windows 7 indeed rocks... and yes - i own macs and pcs
- andy brudtkuhl
Damn hype and secrets are eating my brains clock cycles. Raises fist at Robert ;)
- Mark Essel
I hope you won't need to call Tech Support for it.
- Head Ov Metal
Doesn't look all that impressive to me. It's a Dell with Vista. Whoopty-do. *curmudgeon*
- Hip-Hop in da House
Jason: it doesn't have Vista. Thanks for playing.
- Robert Scoble
any idea if this is a joint effort with the alienware talent they acquired?
- Trey Philips
Even so, it's a Dell with Windows. If it's touchscreen, great. Facial recognition? Bleh. Unless it runs on cold fusion and can predict the future, it's still just a Dell with Windows. That said, I love W7. But I love Mac OS X much more.
- Hip-Hop in da House
Jason: let's talk after you see it. You might still be a Mac fan but you will at least pause after you see the secret stuff this does.
- Robert Scoble
I remember when Apple's PowerBooks had that rubbery/leathery black finish. Dell's bringing the PowerBook-y back, evidentally.
- Wade Dorrell
Fair enough. I believe you saw some things that really were impressive, so I suppose I can withhold judgement. I'm just naturally skeptical of "this is a Mac killer" or "this is an iPod killer" comments, since so many have tried and ultimately failed.
- Hip-Hop in da House
Jason: You are right on. And furthermore, many have not even really "tried". Nothing out there that claims to even compete with Apple products have put close to the level of time, resource, and dollar investment in design and software that Apple has. Anyone who has been in the tech industry for the past 10 years now knows that there's Apple and then a bunch of pretenders and bad imitators.
- Dean Kakridas
from email
That's like saying I am throwing away my Mercedes for the new Chrysler. You still get Dell support and service which has forced me to find new vendors. Wish windows server products ran on os x server. Then we could go all mac hardware.
- Dan Douglass
from Nambu
You're joking, right?
- Steve Council
I've never had a single problem with Dell support. Apple's on the other hand is useless. 10 working day repair time for a machine, compared to next business from Dell. Had to repair a failing disk ourselves because Apple wouldn't replace it, if tech tools said it was bad, 'tech tools isn't any good', and when disk utility said it was bad, 'tech tools is more accurate'. Wouldn't put anything important on Apple hardware or support.
- Russ
Is this the laptop you saw? http://content.dell.com/us...
- Robert
No, Robert, it's this - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
- Ken Sheppardson
But I am the Z-man.. this is my brand... http://www.zoliblog.com/2007... I'll fight for it unless Dell wants to corrupt me by sending a Z-thingie :-)
- Zoli Erdos
I'll throw my Mac out for this ... when it's running OS X. C'mon Dell & Jobs! Stop competing and own the whole market! :)
- Robert J Taylor
I've been dreaming of a laptop that wirelessly charges for years. Although they need to get it like WiFi so it don't have to sit on a "dock"...
- Jon
NAT GEO: Best Aquatic Views From 2009 Contest - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news...
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first pic: Putting up their dukes, boxer crabs in Indonesia helped Italian amateur photographer Marchione Giacomo score a TKO in the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science's 2009 Underwater Photography Contest. The school announced its contest winners on April 15, 2009. Also called pompom crabs, boxer crabs clench small, stinging sea anemones for self-defense, though the crabs have been known to substitute sponges and other tiny creatures ... in a pinch. Judged by a panel of professional photographers and fine artists, the fifth annual Risenstiel School amateur-photographer contest attracted 918 entries from 23 countries.
- Cee Bee
yeah that's a great photo. i really like the second photo as well of a pigmy seahorse
- Cee Bee
This photo should win a Pulitzer Prize. I never expected to see photos like this one come out of Iran. Amazing: - http://twitpic.com/7c85l
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http://tehranlive.org/ is the site that seems to have originated this photo.
- Robert Scoble
I wish I knew who shot the photo. Anyone know?
- Robert Scoble
Absolut!!
- Ronald
No country is one dimensional. That's why I'm so mad at the local media.
- Mo Kargas
Robert: don't think we should unveil them, otherwise they'll be arrested ;)
- Nir Ben Yona
Absolutely incredible
- Michael Krigsman
It is pretty remarkable. It was so good when I saw it last night on Twitter I was afraid it might be a fake.
- Jeff Namnum
It might be Amir Sadhegi. I friended him on FB last night. He's an independent photog associated with Tehranlive.org
- Jill Elswick
I just left a comment for him about the photo...
- Jill Elswick
I'm afraid to think what happened to this brave woman.
- Orli Yakuel
Jill: thank you. Here's his Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/amirpix... and his photo page: http://www.amirpix.com/ Incredible photo, best one to capture the event yet.
- Robert Scoble
http://flickrfan.files.wordpress.com/2009... I like this one
- BryanSchuetz
Robert: You're welcome. Here, also, is a link to the Tehranlive.org "about" page. It lists Amir Sadhegi as the contact: http://tehranlive.org/about/
- Jill Elswick
Very moving - that is a brave person.
- Alex Hellstrom
Front picture of this women: http://twitpic.com/7c6jz
- Orli Yakuel
Alex: the photographer is brave too. Wow, what close work.
- Robert Scoble
Iran "tankwoman"
- K.D.
Robert: your tweet is now the popular here http://iran.twazzup.com/
- Johni Fisher
None of this reporting -- None of it -- would be possible without online tools. Robert -- there's the 2010 Web! I seem to remember your earlier question (a few months ago) about the definition of journalism. This is it. It's not up to the "paid journalists" at the NY Times or Chicago Tribune anymore. It's up to you, me, people like @jamesbuck, and the person who took this photo and put it online.
- Curt Mercadante
Curt: amen!
- Robert Scoble
I'm not really surprised, Iranians are a lot more empowered than people in the West think. It is *not* Saudi Arabia!
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Robert: I didn't even think about the photographer! Thanks for pointing that out. I do believe I'll be looking at all these pics in a different light now.
- Alex Hellstrom
Thanks for getting this out. It's so easy to get lost in tweeting about our silly mundane lives that we forget how important images like this can result in making people aware and helping to make a difference in the world.
- mrsha
Amazing photo - thanks for finding it & sharing it Robert!
- Gurpreet
What happened to her after all?
- Christine Yang
Robert Scoble, Thank you for informing about current news in Iran. We will never forget this. (from Iran)
- Zahra (raoros)
I thought the same thing last night. Maybe the Iranians finally are willing to make some change.
- Tom Searing
@Tom Searing: I hope so, the only way is change...
- Zahra (raoros)
Photo of the year.
- Mike Doeff
moment!
- reality
چی میشه آخرش
- Hamid
Curt, right, after listening to Scoble on a panel about the future of Journalism, and he was the only one "journalizing" it via Kyte, I wrote a post that the future of Journalism is a video camera or in this case a camera. I remember that it was the camera and video camera that stopped Vietnam for instance
- Stephen Pickering
And, putting aside for a bit whether or not CNN ignored the story -- we're now getting news that NBC's Tehran office may have been raided and the BBC has been told to "get lost." Under oppressive, censoring regimes like we have in Iran, North Korea and China -- citizen journalists empowered by new communications tools will be the ONLY way we get accurate news from these regions.
- Curt Mercadante
Curt Mercadante 100+
- Bora Zivkovic
the detail- the untied shoe lace. wow.
- anna sauce
Inspiring. Let's hope the government falls. Because if it doesn't, there will probably be vicious repression.
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
روز زن مبارک
- hamidreza
I am the photographer of this photo
- Amir
It's really a fantastic photo Amir, do you know the woman in the photo?
- BryanSchuetz
WOW. How can you say anything else?
- Sheryl
I love the fact that people start setting up proxy servers for the people in Iran: http://bit.ly/Fiqmb
- Holger Eilhard
Shocking stuff
- Tyson Key
If anyone ever doubted the revolutionary, real-time impact of Social Media, this photo easily dispels those misconceptions....
- John Fenzel
Amir: you have a fan for life. I hope you do win the Pulitzer Prize. I think you got the iconic photo of the election protests. This one should hang in Newseum's Pulitzer Gallery. Can you tell us how you shot it, and give us more details about what was going on in your head as you pressed the shutter button? To everyone else, don't you love friendfeed?
- Robert Scoble
Amir: when I took photojournalism at San Jose State University one quote stuck in my mind from all those classes over the years "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." That quote was from Robert Capa, here's an article in Time Magazine about it: http://www.time.com/time... You have gotten close enough. Congrats, I can't even imagine trying to get this close. I hope all comes out well for your country and you.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I've only been using friendfeed for about 5 days and I'm already in love with it. I guess I picked a good time to try it out!
- Alex Hellstrom
Amir, what do you shoot with?
- EricaJoy
Microsoft's announcement of Bing today shows they are magnitudes of order behind Google. Google moves one step towards knowing the user much better. Microsoft just improves search of "things", not people. The future is people, people! Microsoft I'm not sure gets that yet. Either that or they're way behind.
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Microsoft's announcement was simply a "our architecture is bad and we're fixing it" announcement. I fail to see the innovation.
- Jesse Stay
Soylent Wave Is Made Out of PEOPLE!
- Louis Gray
It'd be much more interesting to use have the live "feeds" be rolled up into searches, although I'm sure this is a much more difficult problem to solve. Streams from twitter, friendfeed, facebook etc should all be readily accessible through search. I think the content that people create is still probably more important than the person themselves...
- Chris Reichow
Chris, but to access *all* the content, and have less data to index, you want the people. The people own the content. It should be indexed by the people, not the content itself. A person owns content, not the other way around.
- Jesse Stay
Interesting note: "A person owns content" I'd certainly like to think this was true, but in today's world I think ownership is significantly diminished. Plus, who said anything about having less data to index, next-gen search needs to increase the available data and timeliness of that data exponentially. It's a tough problem
- Chris Reichow
Chris, with Wave you truly have the ability to own your content. Wave is a technology and protocol anyone can install on their own server, and it's open source. That which you want to stay on your own servers stays on your own servers - you have full control and Google never sees the data. Regarding next-gen search, it's much easier to index a lot more data when you have already indexed the people that own that data vs. indexing just the data.
- Jesse Stay
from email
Both announcements are important, I think, and they're too different to be considered together. Wave isn't about search. (Based on the short videos I've seen), Bing brings *context* and order to search; something that Google's search results appear to be lacking at the moment, and something that people will respond to if Bing lives up to the promise.
- Andrew Terry
Here's another reason not to dismiss Bing so quickly: http://friendfeed.com/media-n...
- Andrew Terry
Now do you get why we call our new community for Internet fanatics "Building43?" We are just catching Google's Wave. Check out my like feed. It is all "Wave:"
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All from Building 43?
- Louis Gray
Ha
- Johnny
Louis: ultimately anything at Google is going to come through Building43 cause that is where Larry and Sergei and Marissa sit.
- Robert Scoble
So you are eventually going to be run by Google?
- Jesse Stay
http://www.friendfeed.com/scoblei... is my like feed.
- Robert Scoble
I like 43 because it's essentially the decimal equivalent of 3/7ths. (.428571) Maybe instead of 20% times, all the Building 43 work comes from the 3 days you're plugging away (+1 day meetings and 1 day on 20% time and 2 days for the weekend).
- Louis Gray
Jesse we are ALL run by Google! :-)
- Robert Scoble
I agree Robert. Maybe we should all start wearing T-Shirts that say "I've been indexed" or "So baby... what's YOUR personal page rank?"
- Kevin C. Tofel
I have a Google KO shirt
- Jesse Stay
It was made by Google though
- Jesse Stay
Google is Big Brother :)
- Susan Beebe
Susan - no, Google is Skynet :)
- andy brudtkuhl
hahha good one!
- Susan Beebe
Now when I ask my Dad a question he doesn't know the answer to he says, "google your mom"
- sherry reynolds
From a few days ago: "The reality of the Web is that Google defines the reality of the Web" - @MrGoogleAlerts
- Alex Schleber
Google Wave: just like a business meeting, only less personal and literally endless. Ugh.
- Maxwell Kennerly
I'm in the front row of the Twitter Conference in Mountain View #140tc Here's EVERYTHING you need to follow it: - http://parnassusgroup.com/twitter...
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Here's the main conference URL: http://parnassusgroup.com/twitter...
- Robert Scoble
I will be live blogging the conference here.
- Robert Scoble
No video feeds?
- Simon Wicks
Right now I'm sitting next to Steve Broback, who runs the conference. It sold out, by the way.
- Robert Scoble
It's the only conference (TechCrunch reported that there's actually six Twitter conferences) that Twitter is semi officially supporting. Alex Payne, API Lead at Twitter, is speaking this morning.
- Robert Scoble
I am watching the live stream coming from the conference and will click "like" on any Tweet that has a really great point. That way you can see the stream with less noise than you'll see in the search above. Here's a search for #140tc but with display set to only show Tweets and other items with one like or more: http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Robert Scoble
Just how many people are there also blogging or tweeting the conference?
- Robert Freeze
The first speech, by Alex Payne, Twitter's API lead, starts at 9 a.m. Pacific Time, which is about one and a half hours from now.
- Robert Scoble
I want to swim in the pool instead of tweeting
- Jacque
Are you only talking about a live stream of twitter and friendfeed messages? Or is there an actual live video stream going to be available from somewhere? If someone would post a live ustream, kyte or such stream from the conference, that would be cool!
- Charbax
Robert Freeze: there are more than 300 people here (or will be in about an hour). I'd expect most of them to be Twittering the conference, so anything that Alex Payne says will probably be repeated many many times. Having filters is going to be very important to be able to find the "needles" in the haystack that is headed our way in real time.
- Robert Scoble
Charbax: Andru Edwards is shooting video of the sessions but we're not sure it'll be streamed live. I'll try to turn on my Kyte cam if they don't, at least for Alex Payne's speech.
- Robert Scoble
There's an article about Twitter on the front page of USA Today, by the way.The article is at http://www.usatoday.com/tech...
- Robert Scoble
Thanks for doing this, Robert! I hope some cool stuff is talked about and shared :)
- Sam Houston
I'm with Sam - thanks - I wish I was there.
- Robert Freeze
Excellent day is done here so can follow this undisturbed :) I am seriously interested in hearing if Alex Payne says anything about their spam issues. Tx Robert looking forward to updates
- Peter du Toit (S.Africa)
Peter: I'm sure that will come up.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: quick question before the action starts here. You covering Google I/O from tomorrow?
- Peter du Toit (S.Africa)
Robert has said he will cover Google I/O, I can't wait. It's the point Google is going to launch a Twitter/friendfeed killer app, an Intel/Microsoft killer Android OS for netbooks, a TV/Cinema killer Youtube HD monetization plan, a hosting provider killer in PHP support for Google App Engine, a Facebook killer in updated Google Friend Connect and Google Open Social and an iphone/nokia killer in Android 2.0
- Charbax
Looks like we're in for an exciting two days then!
- Peter du Toit (S.Africa)
Peter: I should be there in the morning, but won't be covering everything. You will have TONS of news from there. I am sure it'll be hard to avoid for the next two days. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Steve Broback just opened the conference here. So will have more soon.
- Robert Scoble
Alex Payne is showing off the early days and explaining how he got to Twitter. The stories are all out there, unfortunately not enough bandwidth here for live video streaming. Sigh.
- Robert Scoble
Oh well, we trust you to bring us the best stuff :)
- Simon Wicks
no updates in a hour Robert?
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Sorry Capn: you should have watched the search. I live reported here http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Robert Scoble
no worries - I found it!
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Is twitter going to support OpenMicroBlogging protocol? There should be public pressure for them to adopt this, and adopt federation with other OMB capable services
- Jon
here's another proposal, quit enabling url shortening. This trend is breaking the web, and it sets users up for a bad experience. There are two options that come to mind, either take URL data out of the message and into a separate structured data field just for URL data, or just get rid of the arbitrary 140 character limit.
- Jon
I'll take Door #1, Jon!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from IM
while they're at it, they can add data fields for just about anything, such as location or hashtags. these really don't belong in the message do they?
- Jon
To clarify, people who are interacting with Twitter via an SMS-only interface have no use for links anyway, why not strip them out and only make them available as supplementary metadata for API/web clients
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from IM
or http://140tc.tweetmeme.com - for the best stories, videos and pictures from the conference
- Nick Halstead
In case you're curious, that's "Nick Halstead of TweetMeme". http://blog.tweetmeme.com/2009...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Daniel, correct! :)
- Nick Halstead
THIS CONTEST IS OVER, PLEASE DO NOT COMMENT ON THIS ANY MORE. Thank you.
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THIS CONTEST IS OVER. THE MONEY HAS ALREADY BEEN GIVEN AWAY. I'm giving away $4,500 of my money. The contest will be here in friendfeed between now and Tuesday afternoon. Ends 3 p.m. Austin, Texas Time. Winner will be picked live on http://www.ustream.tv/studio at 4 p.m. Austin Time. Two ways to win: First way to win ($1,000). Leave a comment here. We'll pick one winner out of a hat randomly. Second way to win (Two prizes of $1,750 each). Leave a comment about how you will use the money (use only one comment here). I'll pick my favorite two messages and announce a winner on Tuesday afternoon. Good luck!
- Robert Scoble
Good way to keep us engaged Robert :)
- bcultral
only that? too easy Robert! :)
- directeur
Robert "Ben Stein" Scoble :)
- Mattb4rd
Will it be tax free? :P
- imabonehead
pinched nerve in back from military accident.. might be outta work for a bit.
- WithoutInk
I'm in.
- Paul Grav
Sweet awesome robert!
- TheHenry
Simple is good. :)
- Heather Solos
Robert, Ben Stein beat you to that game. Try and be first rather than a fast follower. :P
- Lorin Olsen
What are the rules? International ok? :)
- Holger Eilhard
I'll happily leave a comment here.
- Aaron Crews
Congrads on the new venture:)
- Rob Cairns
I'll take it in Canadian please ..
- johnpiercy
Lets be honest- there are few people who literally put their money where their mouth is. Mr. Scoble you continue to impress me. And I have said this before the contest.
- Alyx
I declare myself ineligible for the first way to win :)
- Douglas Gourlay
Do you have to be an American? Cause I could use a new laptop :) Plus the USD>AUD exchange rate is pretty good at the moment ($1000 USD = $1500 AUD)
- Bryce, Low in Sodium
Cool ....I need new Laptop
- Michael Holzinger
Prediction: this will be the most commented thread on FriendFeed ever (chance to win $1000).
- Mike Doeff
be sure to let us on the detailed result of this new experiment of yours
- Georgios Kasselakis
really? :)
- K.Fatih Özçelik
oh...pick me pick me pick me :)
- Stephanie Segel
Will you give me more if I say rackspace.com?
- Jason P. Brown
woohooo! Anton like this.
- Anton Johansson
c'mon fingers. find me in the hat.
- Jason Kane
OK, I'm changing my comment to go for one of the $1750 prizes. I will offer to donate all of it to a mutually acceptable charity in exchange for an appearance with you and Steve on the Gillmor Gang. If Jason can buy his way onto Twitter, maybe I can buy my way onto the Gillmor Gang!
- Kent
Are you still going to the XMPP meetup on tuesday?
- J Allen
Good luck to everyone!
- Amit Nangare
money talks :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Leaving random comment here for $1000 yo! Can I get that all in pennies and not rolled up? Preferably in gallon milk jugs!
- Jason Moffatt
I think Mike will be right
- Henrik Johansson
I would use the money to 1. Donate and support our local Milwaukee tech community (events like web414.com, BarCampMilwaukee.com, and Bucketworks.org) and 2. purchase some more tech items (i.e. mac mini, video camera, webcam) to enhance and encourage more interaction with development and the tech community.
- Sam Dodge
I'm in too ...
- Leo
$1000 for a random comment. I suspect we'll have a record number of comments. But what kind of hat will you be pulling the name out of? Austin Cowboy hat?
- Andrew Leyden
well, this is one way to get me to actually use my friend feed account =)
- Travis
I'm echoing the earlier comments, free money + your reach = most commented thread.
- Steven Cains
I could use it. Ill be out of a job in 2 weeks.
- Armando
sweet. i like free money =)
- Arin
Second way to win (Two prizes of $1,750 each). Leave a comment about how you will use the money (use only one comment here). I'll pick my favorite two messages and announce a winner on Tuesday afternoon. Good luck!
- Robert Scoble
I'm game. But don't shoot me.
- Steve Lowe
why would you do that?
- Burçak Sayınsoy
is this part of the bailout?
- Thomas Jelonek
Pick me!
- Henry Irish
hook it up!
- Zachary Poley
Robert , Congrats for Building43.com !
- Rocky
Open to anyone in the world. It's my money and if I get sued I'll make fun of you on Twitter. :-)
- Robert Scoble
So let me get this straight, I just leave a comment here? Will this $1000 be reported to the IRS? :)
- Craig Eddy
If ever there was money that could be used to buy gadgets guilt free it is Scoble money!
- Joe Pierce
Building 43 sounds interesting. Can't wait.
- Andrew Bashore
need cash for new company my wife and i are starting -- to help offset the cost of adopting our next child.
- WithoutInk
all i have to say is, more cow bell please :)
- Ivan Stegic
I LOVE RACKSPACE!!
- CG
I'll talk about the contest later on http://www.ustream.tv/studio
- Robert Scoble
Isn't this a nice way to test how scalable Friendfeed entries really are? :-)
- Yuval Atzmon
Will use it to buy Arrington a hairpiece after the TIME article.
- Mike
Please, no, you're better than Ben Stein (although that's not saying much) Are you trying for the most comments ever on a Friendfeed post? Because I can certainly see that coming.
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
What kind of hat?
- Geoff Schultz
Scoble--congrats to you and Rocky! Keep up the great work!
- Joey Hayles
Neat! I'd spend the money fairly selfishly... on bandwidth bills for http://enjoysthin.gs
- Ted Roden
How would I use $1750? Three words: Pay. My. Rent.
- Stephanie Segel
Are friends and family excluded?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Oh well, why not! maybe the hat's lucky!
- vanweerd
I'm just here for the cash.
- Jim Mitchem
Nicholas - would like to work with you at Rackspace, was a senior systems design engineer for Sony Broadband SW Development + Broadcast Integration Division(s) SW Systems Integration and testing, also senior technical project manager on Google's infrastructure upgrade + Verizon's FIOS fiber-to-the-premises nationwide. I also spent ten years in post-production in hollywood as a senior tech support engineer / consultant to the stars. I like bad food, long hours and the warm glow from completing projects.
- Nicholas Chase
Hmmm, how do you post a comment on FF...??? :-)
- I Spy
Feel free to donate lol
- hiphopgame
I would use the money, to help buy a mac for the family. We are in need of a new one, and right now our current one (a powerbook) is starting to die out. I already have some money saved up, but not enough. Thanks for doing this Robert! :)
- Techno Todd
thanks for making friendfeed notifier go insaaaaaaaaaaaaaaane
- Caio
I'll use the money to buy a laptop for my soon-to-college daughter, as well as to fund her scholarship searches& college visits this summer. She's leaning towards working in special education, continuing the volunteering she's done with her high school's Options Program (http://www.paulvi.net/academi...).
- Craig Eddy
My friend (14) and I (15) are working on a subscription web service that we want to launch this summer and some additional runway and start-up capital would really be helpful. We do have some experience with this stuff -- we did iJailBreak (www.ijailbreak.com) a year or so ago and had millions of hits and a million downloads and a lot of coverage (Gizmodo, TUAW, Digg front page multiple times).
- Ben Feldman
I want Robert's stimulus package.
- Daniel Sims
This is my random comment for the random pick!
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
Hi Robert - Pick me! :)
- Susan Beebe
if i didnt know you, i would have un-friended you for a post like that. "i'm giving away money. details to come." Congrats on the new gig!
- fansnap
If I win, I'll spend it all on ale and whores. I'm in need of both.
- Onur Cengiz
$1,750? Ok, I'll give the half of it to a charity, that is: $875 — and the other half will be my contest's gift. My contest? The one who donates the most to that charity wins those $875. And yes, I'm serious :)
- directeur
I don't know about the tax consequences. I'll try to find out. Basically this money is money Cisco paid to me and I'm just shipping it back out. So, this money will be counted pre-tax, I'm sure, and you'll probably need to pay tax on it.
- Robert Scoble
First comment: Hope my comment gets chosen!
- Kevin Poirier
Fabulous
- Jon
Sweet! $1000 would be lovely
- Vanessa Scanfeld
you can give away money in this economic times? ;)
- Simon
I'd be using the money to finance my freelance work and get a half-way decent video camera. I'm working with a friend of mine on tooloftheday.de (nothing to see there yet) to produce videos of popular tools, tips, tricks, howtos, etc...
- Holger Eilhard
Throwing my piece of paper into the hat. Crossing my fingers!
- Troy Malone
man, my feed is going crazy... stop it guys :)
- Ingo Di Bella
OK Robert, I'll bite and leave a comment here.
- Herne
Second comment...I will use the money to buy as many clever domain names that I can in hope that one day, when you are creating your "next big thing" that you will have to purchase the domain name from me realizing that you had in fact, through me, had purchased these domain names in the first place.
- Kevin Poirier
I'm also available for 1/2 time work for $185/week (Rails sites) http://tefflox.net/JesseCr... Thanks :-)
- Jesse Crockett
Thats a internet first i guess, good luck to all contestants :)
- Yunus Tunak
If I win: I will use the money to lend out some of it on Kiva.org, give my brother (12 years old) his own domain/hosting so he could start a wp-blog there and maybe buy Spotify premium =)
- Anton Johansson
I would buy a new macbook pro with it. I have the old one, and Was hoping to buy the current one. I would then give the old one to my brother and I would use the new one! :)
- TheHenry
I'm in!!
- DanDan
I would use it for the prizes I'm giving out daily on my twitter game @I_spy_treasure. Robert, you can win it back... (and so can anyone else...)
- I Spy
Lasers.
- Lasse Johnsen
I will use part 2 to donate to Kiva.org and match it with Cisco's matching gifts program
- Douglas Gourlay
I would donate it to my homeless shelters.
- imabonehead
I'm giving my winnings to congress to spend wisely : )
- Joseph
Congratulations to both you and Rocky on the new jobs.
- Ron Schott
Count me in! Could use the extra $$ to buy a mac and see what all the hype is about.
- Tim
I would create a company called One Laser Per Child.
- Lasse Johnsen
This is my comment. I would use the extra $1750 to pay for me and Lindsay's trip to Gnomedex this year. It would probably be enough for us to come up and stay a few extra days in Seattle.
- Internet's Tad
That'd put a dent in my taxes. Ugh, freelancing has its pains.
- Andrew
nice! i could use some money :)
- krist80
Would be silly not to comment... although I have nothing interesting to say right now.
- Jen
umm..ok i'm in!
- Michael Lemmon
Even I can manage that!
- Jeremy Brooks
Everyone else is doing it...
- Rochelle
Is there a third way to win? I'd use the money to offset part of the costs of moving to Portland in the spring. Moving from New York with next to no connections to see what it's like living on the west coast for a while.
- Mark Trapp
Did I win yet?
- Robert Collazo
Sadly, I'd use most of the money to pay bills, but in the spirit of ff, I'd take a smaller portion of it to play a similar game on my ff.
- Randall Rodakowski
What I'd do with $1000? Get them converted to Euros :) Would most likely be spend on "offline" needs, like a new bathroom
- dieck
I suppose spending it on crack and hookers wouldn't win the prize, would it?
- Ian Betteridge
Feeling like a winner already.
- Tsega Dinka
I will use the $1000 plus 119,000 more dollars to buy a spot on the Twitter "Suggested Users" page.
- Sprague D
And you r giving your money away why?
- Andrew Finkle
it'd go toward my first Mac
- Jeff Mincey
118 comments in 17mins, progress report.. :)
- Yunus Tunak
Count me in!
- Wim Mulder
Interesting; I'd give a bit more than the the money to an unemployed friend for necessities(car repair, rent, food, getting back her phone with Nana Lemon singing Nena's famous anti-balloon protest song) in cash and perhaps a small gift
- RAPatton
I would use the money to go biking in Tibet and give everything that's left to the Tibetians.
- Henrik Johansson
Robert why are you giving away money - not that I am complaining- but curious! :)
- Susan Beebe
I'm game
- Ken Nicely
I'd spend mine on women, booze and a Mac.
- Ed Hudson
I'd use it to stretch the time I can work for equity-only before our startup gets funded! (Why doesn't federal stimulus money go to something like this which actually creates jobs and innovation instead of banks and auto companies?)
- Dale Larson
this should be interesting
- Robert Accettura
The chances of winning Scoble's money are slim. But the comments are hilarious. Love them.
- I Spy
This is easier than a lottery ticket! We must be in an experiment or something, knowing Robert.
- Cesar Arevalo
Sure why not
- Rodfather
I will use the money to go PyCon, learn new skills, network, mention how generous Robert Scoble is, and do a sprint to improve FriendFeed PyAPI--which, by the way, you should use to select the random winners from this thread. https://launchpad.net/friendf... Thanks in advance.
- Chris Lasher
Clever way to show the power of friendfeed!
- Emee Pumarega
For $1750: I would pay a portion of my wife's college tuition, buy my daughter a netbook, and my son a practice guitar amp.
- Mattb4rd
Great idea! Count me in. I think you should give your money away monthly.
- Grace Ciccone
I'm Here. Wow. I''ve thrown the laptop up on a 56" JVC LCD HD. Convergence! Just watched you on the Gillmor Gang. Feels like TV to me. It's great. Something's definitely happening.
- Stephen Pickering
Love it...I'm in
- gavin
that's not that much
- Jesse Fornear
I'd spend the money on a new display, I really need one
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Not my first comment on a Scoble posting here, but first with a potential payoff.
- Tom Landini
I'm in. How I will use the money? will buy server for XdbE project
- Elmira Gazizova
With $1,000 I could buy all 57 Used & new "Naked Conversations" books from Amazon and still have enough to buy bottle service at the club.
- Andy Fields
would like to be able to try new technologies while still being a student and on a student's income = ($0)
- Shane Grant
Cool, count me in :-) I would use the money by buying 2 HTC Fuzes for me and my love.
- Sarah Peterman
Count me in! (for the first way I guess :P).
- Mauro Borione
What can I do to get your $$$ Robert? How about a virtual dance from my dogs?
- Jeff
get Diabla my pit bull puppy hip surgery sooner rather than later
- shayne catrett
haha, what is it all about?
- Alexey Ivanov
I would use the money to help fund a small-scale electronics lab, which has been a dream of mine for some time. It would serve as the perfect place to plot and create the robotic army that will eventually take over the world! Also it would teach me lots that would make me very attractive to an employer, or capable of creating a business of my own.
- Daniel Bruce
It would be hard for me to decide how to spend the money. There is so much, yet so little, being given. Because I'm a crazy Linux-lover, I think I should take the selfless route and donate at least part of the money to various Linux/open-source programming projects. Though, I would have to be careful to make sure that the money is not wasted in the style that Jeff Atwood describes (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog...).
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
<cold><oddsized><red>here's my comment</red></oddsized></cold>. I've made my comment colored and differently shaped because supposedly those will get drawn before all the other regular looking comments. It's cold too because that's how the Knicks got Ewing first in the draft.
- Todd Hoff
Well, I need a new kidney, and there just happens to be one available on Ebay for $1000. (The previous portion of this comment is an utter lie; both my kidneys are doing fine, I am gainfully employed, do not need the money as much as so many on this thread, but Mastercard would really love to have it.) Congrats and good luck with the new venture, Robert.
- Phil Essing
Very cool!
- Josh Haley
Hey as long as were giving away money - count me in ;)
- Rob Jones
sweet, a thousands eh? converted to $ JMD that's 90k, groceries for 2 months:P
- Gordon Swaby
i'd like to thank my good friends olasofia and tav for mentioning this opportunity to win $1000 randomly, and if gratitude to one's friends isn't enough, how about this: i will give the $1750 for the best answer to this question: now that there are 100,000 people paying attention, what single action can we all do next tuesday that has the greatest social impact globally?
- happyseaurchin
For either amount, I would look to pay down some of my pressing debts and apply the rest towards a rainy-day fund. The 10% paycut I took three months ago has not helped things.
- JA Castillo
I'm on spring break now and my school was nice enough to lend me a Canon 20D (a little old, but I'm still glad to have borrowed it). Usually, only people who are part of the after school photography club can take it out, and seeing that I'm not, I was quite lucky. They gave me a 28-135mm lens, which looked ok to me. It was the last lens they had available, so it was take it or leave it....
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- Michael Forian
hmmm just leave a comment for a $1,000 dollars, not sure what to say...
- Kevin Tunis
$1750 for a cheeky mobile app, any more would be telling
- Yant
I'm here. pick me :) How would I use? I'll buy a netbook and some books.
- Dogan Tuncer
i am somehow reminded of ben stein
- Adam Singer
Testing the mix, testing, testing, one two, one two, - is this thing on?
- Martha
I would use the money to do what I do with all of my money...support my wife through graduate school :p. Thanks for the opportunity, Robert.
- Neal Jansons
Give it to Michael Forian! He seems so well-meaning!
- RexEveryhting
Big Spender Robert. Who knew?
- Michael Fidler
I'm feeling lucky.
- Laura
Cool! I saw your new venture announcement (live) earlier on my old iMac, which I would love to replace. :)
- Rob
I'm an unemployed community manager formerly of Silicon Valley. Hoping to spread new technology from NorCal to SoCal.
- Kimberly
recently laid off, this would really help, *fingers crossed*
- Nick
Pick me, I've got medical bills to pay-off. Boring I know, but it's really how I'd use any extra money.
- Curtis Phillips
I'll donate the money to GM. Nah, forget it. I'll worry about it if I actually get it.
- Hal
I will throw my virtual hat in the virtual ring for the not-virtual $1000. What is the other $3500 going toward?
- Her Lindsay-ness
Working on a little something in the review space with a friend of mine, $1000 could cover a bit of initial hosting.
- Jack Bogdan
Hmm, adding that to a house down payment would be nice. I imagine there's others here that could use it much more, though.
- Jordan Hofker
peace on earth.....
- imran