Jake Kuramoto

"Looks tough, but the price is right :) If only I'd done this research before I had jury duty. I guess I could stockpile for my next trip on a plane or to the DMV. Boredom. There's an app for that." - Jake Kuramoto

"Wow, I'm late to the iPhone for games party. Those sound fun. See my update about Fieldrunners if you want another fun one." - Jake Kuramoto

"Thanks for the kind words. From the beginning, we've wanted to open source Connect, and several people (customers) have expressed interest. The problem is that I'm not sure how to do that from a process perspective. Maybe you can assist. Noel's release of OraTweet "as is" for free may help us build a case for Connect. Connect (and Mix) are JRuby apps. When it launched, Mix was the largest JRuby production app, and I think it still is, unless Connect has passed it. Either way, we've used a combination of Oracle and open source pieces. Also, even if we open source it, we can't fully let go of Connect until we find it a home with a team to support it. People use it for work, and we can't bail on them." - Jake Kuramoto

"Sure, Orson Wells did it in the 30s with War of the Worlds. A combination of faster media to spread information and way more people around to spread it makes this a bigger issue today. Plus, the gullibility gene has been found to be dominant, meaning they are all around us, like zombies . . ." - Jake Kuramoto

"No worries at all, I was just rechecking myself to make sure I hadn't come off as anti-citizen journalism. Your point is valid to this topic, which isn't just about Twitter." - Jake Kuramoto

"I'm also glad we have a platform for citizen journalism, and I agree that advertising skews what is reported by the major news outlets. I hope my post didn't come off as against citizen journalism. The Web provides a great populist tool that produces awesome stuff like citizen journalism, but one side-effect to populism is it doesn't discern, leaving you to sort out the gold from the crap." - Jake Kuramoto