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We just added a "Best of day" link at the bottom of the page. The best part is that it works for friend lists too, so you can have a "Best of day from family", etc. Thanks to Matt Cutts for the suggestion (http://friendfeed.com/mattcut...)
haron, Andre P. Siregar, Ronald and 159 other people liked this
awesome, but pls bring this to the iphone too... i really miss best of day on the iphone
- Zee.
Suggested Tuesday, implemented Thursday. #wonderful
- Mitch
Nice! I was just thinking about this today, but it'd also be awesome to have a "Best of" link for user profiles as well, so it'd be easy to see which of a users (or yourself) updates/posts were the most popular
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
This is huge news for me, thanks!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
What Sean said. It will also be useful to decide whether to subscribe to a user or not.
- Vishy
I agree -- soon I hope.
- Paul Buchheit
The "by list" portion is very important. Well done.
- Louis Gray
*falls on floor*
- Johnny Worthington
w00t! I got a "file not found" error on the iPhone, but I'm hoping that's temporary. This is rocking--thanks for adding this feature!
- Matt Cutts
You guys are full of incredibleness today
- Charlie Anzman
Boy, you're just cranking the improvements out! Amazing stuff!
- Rick Cogley
sweet
- Alfredo
this is good. how about also adding best of week and month and putting the same tool on searches as well?
- Thomas Hawk
Awesome...I've really missed this since the redesign.
- Mark Krynsky
And guess who comes up twice as soon as I click this new feature...? Paul Buchheit!!! :-)
- Ton Zijp
This is great but hopefully will be expanded to groups, users and saved searches too? And agree with Thomas about best of week/month too.
- Kol Tregaskes
Friendfeed, you ROCK!
- alfred westerveld
I found the link long before this post. Very cool.
- Russellreno
Can we get email/IM alerts for "Best of Day" for lists? I would love to get these pushed to me. Thx.
- Steve Rubel
WOW I love you guys I missed the feature sooooo bad!!!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
I've been waiting for this for ages. Fantastic.
- Meryn Stol
great tks a lot
- marsupilamima
The iPhone links are now fixed (thanks to Ben)
- Paul Buchheit
Noticed this one! FriendFeed rocks! Best of day from family,Linux,Madagascar,Francophones,SocialMedia,music.. great!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
This feature was on the previous version of friendfeed.... Why not put the link on the TOP of the page as well ?
- David Berrebi
For long I wanted nested comments. Now, I cannot comment somebody's comment.
- Nitin Nanivadekar
Really Secret Scoble - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
Dobromir Hadzhiev, Chris Jones, Marcos Silva Costa and 29 other people liked this
If you really want to get good value from conversations, keep them to less than 20 people round a dinner table.
- Mark Littlewood
Interesting perspective in the smaller groups. I manage 3 twitter accounts and the latest I am only following 500 and it is the one I actually pay attention to the most because it was more select in terms of who I followed. You actually get to know people a little better per Mark's comment.
- Lyn Graft
Mark: actually I found that a group of four is the best for conversations. Any more and the conversation starts to split and get distracted.
- Robert Scoble
How many groups do you have Robert?
- Lyn Graft
I'd call this account "justrobertscoble" :) I've read your post, sound practical. After we all tested twitter for two (some of us three) years, we understand that the more we follow people the more we get lost in tons of conversations, that I (for example) not even sure I'm interested in. I don't see how any of this will change without groups. It's just too much content to digest each day. (will, i can always unfollow people I guess)
- Orli Yakuel
Lyn: just three.
- Robert Scoble
Interesting. Um, I have a secret Twitter account where I follow key people I'm interested in my industry who share valuable links and relevant information that can be used to keep track of big picture trends in a focused way. However, I don't respond on it, just keep the signal to noise ratio high so patterns are more easily discernible.
- Sally Church
So what I am hearing here from this conversation is twitter user base is inflated (I myself have 2 accounts). I however never felt the need to have 1000s of followers as most of the stuff is gibberish. I am following a very selected amount of people and I am very selective of the people that follow me. If I am engaged in conversation and I see that person that I value engaged in...
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- Richard Gallo
I was thinking about this very topic today, I have consciously kept my follows as low as possible for since I started on twitter, but have recently been considering jumping on the wagon.... Now I have a secret twitter account and starting to ramp up the numbers to experiment.
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
I love how you have Ijustine in your secret twitter group. I guess you need to keep up with all her valuable insights right? CaliLewis?
- Mark
@mark - yes - those are some of the most amazing times, dinner, a small group of folks and some interesting conversation. :-)
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
it is just become clear to me that you actually opened a group on twitter. and for that you needed to open another account, hmm... it's not easy to navigate between two accounts (even with desktop client)
- Orli Yakuel
The maximum size of a group, in which you can "know" everyone, probably depends on the richness of the communication channel (bandwidth, opportunity for response, "liveliness" [real time?], etc). This reminds me of W L Gore & Associates lattice management approach and the way that, as business units grew, they would deliberately subdivide them to remain below of size limit of about 150, if I remember correctly.
- John W Lewis
I hear the small group argument entirely. Very good point -- I hate big conferences since I feel like I have to say hello (and goodbye) to everyone for that reason. The networking events are even more difficult. You have friends who expect you to be with them during the evening but you also want to say hi to older friends and meet new faces.
- Tamar Weinberg
This sounds like a few other business ideas: if you make a resource scarce, then everyone will want one. Or to put it another way: "There is a sucker born every minute" - How do _I_ get in ? :)
- Ric Johnson
This is a bit off topic, but one that I think about everytime I visit your blog. Why is the Google connect bar at the bottom of your site and how do I prevent it from loading in my browser?
- Davis Freeberg
Davis: I don't think you can prevent it from loading. I'm playing with Google Friend Connect to learn what Google is going to do to get into the social networking business. It's a little forum down there.
- Robert Scoble
Sorry, I have to speak up along with Davis - it's positioned part-way down the page (and incompletely anyway) on my iphone. The last blog post page I tried keeps crashing Safari mobile (after a minute) each time I try it.
- Micah Wittman
This reminds me of child 'rearing'. When I was much younger and my kids were little one of the things I learned when they would engage with multiple pals at the same time, still holds true today for me as an adult. Even numbers are always best with regard to interaction. Odd numbers and someone gets left out, like it or not. Pairing is natural, and I mean that literally. Multiples of 2...
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- Sheryl
weirdest thing on this one is I saw your "other" scoble account a while back, but thought it was someone else trying to mess with you in some way so never paid it any attention... :)
- Jeremy Toeman
Curiously, given that "Really Secret Scoble" spells out RSS, this hasn't hit my RSS feed, and I happened to bump into it on FriendFeed. Ever since you made the changes to WordPress, there have been issues.
- Louis Gray
I echo Jeremy as well. I thought it was a "Really Fake Scoble".
- Louis Gray
Same here. Initial impulse was to DM Robert through FriendFeed to ascertain whether it was real. Then I thought, "Duh! Search FriendFeed!"
- Hutch Carpenter
hmm... doesn't this just point to the lack of "groups" support in twitter!? I use @troynt greasemonkey script (http://userscripts.org/scripts...), which provides groups support among other things.
- Shivanand Velmurugan
I've had two groups in both Twitter and FriendFeed for months now. One is called "Influentials" (which @scoble is part of) and the other "Cool-Friends" which are people who share similar interests or affinity. I always keep 3 tabs (one for all, the other two with these groups) and have gotten a lot of value out of that approach. On Twitter I have the lists as columns in Seesmic Desktop.
- Jorge Escobar
honestly I do have multiple twitter accounts 4 different purpose, but sumtimes they do overlap, yes u r still the same person, but u r selling a brand, or a company or a non-profit or topics that r different. U need to keep track or straight.
- polou/indigo_bow
Vic Gundotra, VP at Google, just asked me if I'm coming to I/O today. I'm not. He wrote "you will be bummed." Big news coming this morning.
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Will they be putting Android in my Coffee?
- Bill Hewson
i/O for those not in the know = Google's Developer Conference downtown San Fran / Moscone Center...
- j sven
Heh, guess I'll hear it from you first anyway.
- Linus
Google Wave announced
- Amiroo ™
from PeopleBrowsr
That looks dope... jeez.
- Jamie
This looks amazing. I only hope they begin to invite people to test it over the summer despite a "late 2009" release.
- Brandon Titus
Without test-driving it, it looks like Wave may consolidate/simplify real-time web activities?
- phil baumann
Wave might be FF on steroids.
- Brian Sullivan
If they get this right, this looks like the future for online communication.
- Keith Bennett
from BuddyFeed
And it's truly ironic that NO ONE is hosting a live thread (or FF room) of the event.
- Bwana ☠
What happened to the real-time web?
- Bwana ☠
The new FriendFeed beta is very nice, but Mozilla's Ubiquity is WOW. Can't believe they did that. Ensures I'll never use IE8.
Joshua Oehler, Dobromir Hadzhiev, Mitch and 73 other people liked this
kinda blows MSFT's 'smart tags' outta the water.
- MikeAmundsen
+1 FTW!
- ~C4Chaos
- just read the VentureBeat article and watched the Mozilla Labs video...amazing! Hope it gets near "live" soon.
- JA Castillo
JA: I'm using it right now and it does, indeed, rock.
- Robert Scoble
Scoble: Have you created your own rules or are you working from what has already been created?
- JA Castillo
For someone who is not code literate and such, how easy/difficult would it be to create your own rules?
- JA Castillo
JA: I am just going with what has already been created so far. I've only had it for a couple of jet lagged hours! :-)
- Robert Scoble
It is the easiest way to search ever!
- Andrew
WOW!!! Ubiquity is awesome. Just the kind of thing I have envisioned.
- Allen Blair
Mozilla just created the killer webapp. Astounding! Thank you Moz
- Keith - @tsudo
indeed, i am amazed no one has come up with this before!
- Justin Long
I dunno, kinda seems like the Activities feature in IE8 Beta 1: http://www.microsoft.com/windows...
- Brandon LeBlanc
from twhirl
Ha, so that's what I read about FF command line... I like it, but he... I like command lines...
- Egon Willighagen
@brandon: yes - activites (i said smart tags before - oops). but i'm not sure they have the same 'angle.' seems like (since i've not tried Ubiquity) is user interface and that activities is a programming interface.
- MikeAmundsen
this is yubnub done right. heck someone can make a simple bridge to yubnub :). What will be "dangerous" about this Ubiquity is its viralness. People will immediately shares commands. Hopefully not worm and viruses.
- Toni @ NavinoT
Just installed Ubiquity and love it. I've not used IE for years and don't plan to.
- Brett Nordquist
I installed it last night and I just love it, go on Moz crew!!!
- Daniele Russolillo
Brilliant! reading the tutorials right now.
- Nir Ben Yona
from twhirl
Jus checked it out and it rocks!
- Vinodh Nandakumar
IE8 makes all the websites I visit look like complete crap. If they're asking developers to use tags in their HTML so that IE8 will think it's IE7, that can't be a good sign.
- Aaron Myers
I've been using YubNub and Slickrun for many months -- I'm not sure yet that Mozilla Ubiquity is a significant step forward.
- Sean McBride
What Mozilla's Ubiquity ? Any link to share?
- Arjun
UbiQ blows my mind away. Have been playing around with it all day. Just hoping that they imprve usability in the coming versions. Tweeting from UbiQ is a breeze, I'm guessing this is going to increase load on Twitter APIs like crazy!
- Vinodh Nandakumar
I installed Ubiquity late last night, and yes, it does have the WOW factor for me as well. I want to see how easy it is to create commands, after viewing the vid. Nice work.
- Henry Burger
from twhirl
It sounds great for power users. I was also imagining a sidebar type app that would be suggesting things to do with stuff. Select an address and it would pop up a map and give you the option to email it. This way no need for new users to know text commands or have to think what might be the word to use.
- John Cooper
Sidebar is a great idea...also "chaining" commands. What if i want to tinyurl something (or two) and insert into a twit (or email..). Also if you don't use gmail (gasp), launching the OS native URL handlers like mailto:.
- Richard Goodwin
Ubiquity looks cool, but is very similar to what can be done with Quicksilver on Mac.
- Martin Añazco
if you like ubiquity you'll be sure to love http://www.humanized.com/enso that's Aza Raskin's work before he joined mozilla, so you can see where the inspiration comes from :)
- Chris Jones
watching the video for ubiquity @ mozilla labs now .... whoa
- John Blanton
I am yet to try out Ubiquity yet but your WOW has convinced me to check it out later ha!
- Joe Dawson
Where do these smart people come from. Very cool.
- Kenley Neufeld
this changes the way I can work... but what motivates me to change this way.
- Stewart Rogers
Anybody found a FF Ubiquity command to subscribe to yet?
- Grey Drane
help me, the editor is making me want to learn code. ARRRRRRGH!
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
It's addictive, much like 'Launchy'.
- Vinay | विनय
Just wrote a FriendFeed command for Ubiquity. Check it out! http://bit.ly/3UPXGP
- Brandon Titus
Yeah I love ubiquity too! Wonder what 1.0 will be like! :D
- JegerPhil - Phil
If you're running Ubiquity on Linux, I would advise NOT setting the hotkey to SHIFT+SPACE. Esp. if you're fond of capitalisation...
- wyclif
@Martin Añazco ya, it reminds me of Quicksilver and the command-line, too. I really love it!!!! It creates an awesome workflow that leads to inspired power browsing.
- barce
Thanks to your blog post about Ubiquity I began using it and can see how it will enhance my web experience
- Joshua Oehler
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Defendius door chain - http://www.artlebedev.com/everyth...
Kim, , Mark O'Neill and 4 other people liked this
that would be like playing the old DOS game "digger" !! :)-
- Peter Dawson
wondering if there is a quick release accessible only from the inside. I'd hate to have to solve that thing while trying to get out in a rush. this may be a failure.
- Carlos Ayala
this might present problems during an emergency like say a one night stand for instance
- Cee Bee
lol @ Cee Bee
- Corie
what if the pizza delivery boy was outside? By the time you got the door unlocked, the pizza would be growing its own mold and the pizza delivery boy would be mummified! On the positive side, you wouldn't have to give a tip.
- Mark O'Neill
Oh happy day!? - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
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Do they have "track"? XMPP?
- Ken Sheppardson
Your permalink for this story (the link on Friend Feed) is 404'ing for some reason, even though the story is clearly visible if you go directly to Scripting News.
- Ed Ryan
Okay... Fixed now.
- Ed Ryan
Seems a bit slow and CSS wise doesn't like IE7. BTW - I'm http://identi.ca/colinwalker
- Colin Walker
The RSS is super-lame. http://bit.ly/2wj3GZ
- Dave Winer
And as it's starting to get traffic guess what -- it's getting slow. :-(
- Dave Winer
wow, identi.ca has "gone twitter" pretty damn fast - sloooooow.
- Dossy Shiobara
Definitely seeing is bog down a bit right now. Here's a link to the source code: http://identi.ca/notice/1637 [If Identi.ca goes down, here's the direct link: http://laconi.ca/laconic...]
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Not sure if it's an IE thing but can't open the email address confirmation URL. Yes, it was IE - ok in FF3
- Colin Walker
Wow. It's getting pounded now. I'm looking at the PHP source now.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Okay - I'm impressed, OpenID registration flow worked pretty smoothly. XMPP confirmation process worked.
- Dossy Shiobara
Interesting, free software is one thing and well and good, but who's paying for the infrastructure and the manpower to watch said infrastructure? Still, it's funny that the software is called laconica, I appreciate that. :)
- felix
Blah. "Open source" for a Twitter-like service doesn't mean squat unless there's a server-to-server protocol, like IRC, so one can start up their own server and participate in the "cloud" ... otherwise, you're just standing up lots of islands of attention. Who needs more of _that_? ugh.
- Dossy Shiobara
Interesting. The license is a version of the GPL that compels the release of modified source even if its just used to deliver a service.
- Erik S
Interesting. I'm thomashawk there. http://identi.ca/thomashawk
- Thomas Hawk
@Dossy, there is a server-to-server protocol. The docs are sparse, but it's there.
- Dave Winer
Feels very familiar... with the slow page loading and everything! :)
- Yolanda
sbisson there (as everywhere!)... so now we'll see how it goes
- Simon Bisson
from twhirl
Dave, I just posted a question (waiting for moderation) in the Control Yourself blog http://controlezvous.ca/?p=5 regarding the underlying architecture. I must admit, however, that their interoperability plans sound impressive.
- Ontario Emperor
Well, using HTTP POST and OAuth piggibacking doesn't seem like the optimal solution for the server-to-server substrate to me. Why are we constantly reinventing new protocols? We have XMPP with Pub/Sub extensions, we have JXTA...
- Vlado Handziski
one can run xmpp over jxta: eg http://collab.netbeans.org ... not sure if that codebase has surfaced or not but i demo'd it at j1 '06
- James Todd
When Google Owns You - http://www.chrisbrogan.com/when-go...
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Like is def. the wrong word here.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
whoa that sucks.
- C. K. Sample III
from twhirl
It's OK to trust the cloud... as long as you have a backup of your mail, contacts, calendar, docs, pics... you get the idea.
- Bill Sodeman
Meh, create your own cloud. VPS is inexpensive enough that you can do it on the cheap.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
scary, is he back in yet?
- Gavin Knight
oh thats bad... i guess backing up data is the priority now.
- slax
What a nightmare!
- Benedikt Koehler
And I was just going on & on about how running "apps" on your "computer" and generating "files" was going the way of the dodo bird, and all about web apps, the cloud... etc. My friend said "what if they did something with your data?" and I reply "what could they possibly do?" Ug.
- Dean Terry
wow, that'S bad
- Martin Spindler
from twhirl
FOG - not a bad thing to have. Had a similar issue when "Teh GOOG" thought my wife was a spammer because she has a lot of people to communicate with. Send email, deafening silence. Please, pretty please, let me back in, deafening silence. Wait a week, maybe, hopefully someone will take a look at it. It helps my perspective on these issues to think that primarily Google isn't a company, it's an algorithm. Love what they create, but they're a little short on customer service.
- Todd McKinney
Scary stuff
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
i wish the story was more clear on what activities this 'Nick' was doing with his Google tools before the problems occured. we all click right through the long-winded EULA legal-eagle language when signing up for lots of these services...maybe he was violating the Terms of Use.
- .LAG liked that
@Scobleizer has been banned from China http://lin.cr/10u
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
This totally freaks me out because I've seen that same message a couple times. All of a sudden, I go to my Gmail tab that I left open and it has logged me out. I put in my password and it then asks me to do a CAPTCHA. Then I get the message. I refresh the page though and it's all good again - it lets me login. However, when it happened, I was near panicking for a minute. What's going on, I wonder? I think maybe I should switch but switching email is *HARD*. Time to turn on automatic forwarding though?
- Sarah Perez
@Sarah Perez: Just setup Thunderbird and have it POP to Gmail. Instant downloaded Gmail backup.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
The thing that could and should save him is the additional storage. He has a transaction record with his (assumed) credit info on it. He should be able to get somewhere with that. The fact Google did not recommend a course of action involving that upon conclusion of their investigation sucks belly button lint.
- Michael W. May
Google owns me too. I have almost all of my email accounts collected into one GMail account. My GMail goes back to 2004 but other mail in there is older than that. If this happened to me I'd be devastated. Google really needs to respond to this. I'm not feeling really safe right now.
- Kenya
Nick posted in the comments that he got back into his account. http://www.chrisbrogan.com/when-go...
- Gregor Morrill
@Stupid blogger: Good idea!
- Sarah Perez
@SarahP - if you have a spare flash drive, try the portable apps version. You'll have a backup you can take anywhere.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
As I said in my comments, if you are paying for Google Apps -- pick up the phone and call them with your support number from the support screen you should have printed when you signed up for service as a PAYING customer like you would for any bill with a utility company. Did I miss something or gloss past this somewhere in the writeup Chris or was there no phone call placed to Google Apps support? http://www.chrisbrogan.com/when-go...
- Jay Cuthrell
I have my Gmail setup to forward everything to an alternate backup account at dreamhost, where in theory I have 300GB of space available. It's come in handy every once in a while when Google's servers act up.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
from twhirl
So, nothing was mission critical, but still. Think how many services you can't use if you lose your g-account. Gmail, docs, calendar, picasa, etc. It's not trivial.
- Chris Brogan
I commented on the blog post, but I'll say it here too: "I’m glad that Nick got his account back. The system to recover your account asks you to try to remember information to prove that it’s you instead of a hacker, but I believe it still lets you recover your account much faster than the previous system that Google used."
- Matt Cutts
P.S. One difference between Google and many other companies is with Google you can back up your email for free and easily. If you want to back up all your data in your Google Account, the Google Operating System blog did a nice summary post about how to do it: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007... . At least with Google you can pretty much pull all of your data out and back it up.
- Matt Cutts
thanks @mattcutts. good stuff.
- Christian Anderson
@Matt - thanks for commenting and for your ideas. It wasn't the Gmail account that was the biggest part. It was the fact that without THAT account, he was locked out of All Things G (don't tell Walt and Kara). That's way more tricky than missing an email or something. Right?
- Chris Brogan
I think the key to safety here is diversity of services everyone relies on plus back up - a desktop client for Gmail, regular export of OPML, etc.
- Svetlana Gladkova
Another lock-out here: mine just got canned sometime between 9a and 11a EDT. Luckily it's a new account w/ no data, but still...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I hope everyone scrolls down to read the comments instead of running way scared. :)
- Marcel
I blogged about some interesting options for moving our data out of corporate control and back into the cloud. This is something I've advocated for years, great to see the discussion here. http://theprogressbar.com/archive...
- Dave Evans
@Chris, there's several ways to look at this. If you're worried about losing data if an account is disabled, it's easy to back-up almost any data associated with your Google Account (see my previous comment about how to do that). If you're worried about not being able to use All Things G with the disabled account, you could always create a new account to access Google services. On the third hand, if you're worried about the actual disable-ing and how to correct that, there are good ways.
- Matt Cutts
@Chris, continuing my comment on reversing a disabled account. :) For example, we provide a self-service tool to help get your account back: http://mail.google.com/support... and account recovery: http://www.google.com/support... . I think Google provides better tools for online account recovery than most other sites. Some people do abuse Google accounts, so we have to be able to disable those accounts. We try hard, but no service will be 100% perfect.
- Matt Cutts
Google's response: http://tinyurl.com/6ylrmp
- Chris Brogan
watching 9/11 conspiracy movie "Able Danger" - http://www.mahalo.com/Able_Da...
Jeff P. Henderson, mjc, Chris Jones and Percival liked this
this looks excellent
- Jason Calacanis
from Bookmarklet
agreed, looks fantastic! thanks
- Chris Jones
from twhirl
not on netflix? hmm
- Percival
The bunny beat me to it... - http://maryamie.spaces.live.com/Blog...
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The best computer bag I’ve owned: STM Journey - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
Will DeLuca, liangcw, Mark McGimpsey and 27 other people liked this
This is an awesome computer bag that I'd recommend to anyone, especially people with bad backs.
- Robert Scoble
What bags do you love? By the way this post is one of the only ones that took a year to write.
- Robert Scoble
I've got a cheap DaKine messenger bag for everyday use and a Lowepro Compurover AW for the camera gear + laptop.
- Andrew Smith
Compudaypack = laptop (17" MBP) plus full SLR camera rig - http://products.lowepro.com/product...
- Jason Carreira
I carry a timbuk2 large messenger. I'm fearful of a wheelie in China, as others have had items take from their bag, while wheeling through the streets. I opted to cut my weight/laptop size, rather then upgrade to a wheelie.
- clarke thomas
First had an old XPS 2 from Dell, http://www.flickr.com/photos..., now i have a Samsonite Outlab X+III Laptoprucksack - great!! http://thegearjunkie.com/images...
- Ronald
I have gone through so many of these it's embarrassing. These days, I use a very slim sling case from MacCase.
- Steve Rubel
Your blogpost about your breakfast walk with Zuckerberg at Davos is one of my favs. More students are using rolling bags to carry books here at university.
- Phillip Jeffrey
I would have this bag in denim jeans :-)
- nuncomment
I'm attached to a Tom Bihn "Brain Cell" - a minimalist size/design case, with it you can toss it into a larger bag (they of course sell other bags in which it hooks securely in place) - great quality and made in Seattle http://tombihn.com/page...
- Micah Wittman
from twhirl
I'd like to check it out. My laptop backpack is hard on my back, even though it's better than a shoulder strap bag. BTW, nice seeing you last night, Robert.:-)
- Cathryn Hrudicka
brown paper bag
- Damien Franco
The best bag I've ever owned was made by Brenthaven (sold at the Apple Store). I've had mine for 5 years and it looks brand new. $150 http://www.brenthaven.com/catalog...
- Brandon
theres some bag coming out that gets u past security without having to take ur laptop out, google it i'm too lazy to find the link right now.
- adolfo foronda
It also means you're a prime suspect for theft. I'm surprised no one has tried to steal it off you, especially if they see all the goods you have crammed into it.
- Gaurav Patel
Gaurav: my bag is so heavy no one would get far after stealing it.
- Robert Scoble
Tumi, it's taken a beating and been round the globe multiple times still holds up.
- Dave Martin
thanks, this help. ironically, i've been in the market for a bag. thinking about a backpack for the new macbook pro 17.
- Ryan
I'm using a Targus backpack. However, I tend not to bring the notebook computer out much unless I'm traveling. The phone can handle most of the web access.
- Morton Fox
I like the function and style of a Golla bag.
- Carolyn Chan
I've been lugging around my Tom Bihn Buzz Bag for a year now. Its getting a bit heavy, but for short distances I have a Waterfield Sleave for my X61T. Works great.
- CW™
I'm a BIG fan of my Spire backpack. 9 years and not a stitch out. They are based out of Colorado and the website is http://bit.ly/2UCGwN. I've been trying to get them to make a combo camera/computer bag. Let them know if you are interested in such a bag.
- Jauder Ho
Recently bought a Kata DR-467, could do with a few more pockets but it does most of what I want (including forcing me to carry less stuff!)
- Andy Davies
I like it. I'd like it better if it had a convertible backpack option, like this one: http://bit.ly/1jIr9i . Of course, the STM is much more stylish.
- John Federico
Still using a Swiss Army briefcase I got as MVP Swag (with a TUMI insert)
- Brian Sullivan
I got one from Microsoft, for beta testing Windows Live Messenger. Still use it for my 15" notebook :)
- Imran Hussain
from feedalizr
Adam Kinney still has your old backpack I think! But he's moving on... http://adamkinney.com/blog...
- IanBlackburnold
Brenthaven--nothing better
- Ryan Petty
Timbuk2 Commute XL
- Jeff
Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet - http://www.theonion.com/content...
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Brilliant! Just watch out for the green terranite that might sap baby Gore's strength.
- Bill Sodeman
from twhirl
That's the most awesome thing I've seen all day!
- Mack D. Male
The passionates vs. the non passionates - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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My answer to whether Dare Obasanjo is right or not.
- Robert Scoble
It's quite difficult to convince the non passionates about all these new technologies. The exception in my circle of colleagues at work (99% of them definitely non passionates), is linkedIn. almost all of them know and are in LinkedIn. Never used Twitter or FriendFeed, most of them don't use RSS, even! But curiously enough they are in LinkedIn - in a passive way, but they are there.
- Fernando
Your labels do not hold up under even casual scrutiny. Seriously. There are a lot of people who are passionate about Facebook and I mean very passionate. They might not be very, very early adopters, but they're very passionate. And almost none of them will read any of the blogs dedicated to social media. They're just not passionate about everything you are, but that doesn't make them non passionate.
- Robert Seidman
There are degrees to the spectrum. I don't fit Scoble's definition of a passionate, but I'm definitely far beyond the non-passionate end of the spectrum. My professional life doesn't yet align with all the social media services and I have limited personal time to invest in the space. There is a strong personal interest in this information but the time it will take to shift priorities and dedicate more to social media participation will place me in a mid- to late-adopter category.
- Sally: gift wrapper
I know people who don't really care about social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter at all yet they are far from non-passionate web users. They just use the web for the things they *do* care about - maybe it's a fan site for their favorite book/tv/movie, IMDB, celebrity gossip, wikipedia, YouTube, etc. - but it's not Facebook. They really don't see the point. I've tried to come...
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- Sarah Perez
The influence of the passionates, the hub people, the connectors is important to any stage business, but if someone wants to bypass them more power to them; my guess is tho that this approach works best for existing customers rather than growing something.
- Loren Heiny
I just used Facebook as one example in Scoble's wheelhouse. I find it a damn shame that Robert would use his leadership position to perpetuate silly labels like this. Sarah Perez is spot on. I could regale you with deeds of fans of the TV shows Jericho and Moonlight who used social media to try to get their shows back but also did good deeds along the way (blood drives, initiatives to help soldiers in Iraq, etc). These people are very passionate and they use the Internet...passionately.
- Robert Seidman
One non-computer using teacher explained they don't use the computer but own Google stock. Why? Because someone suggested they own it. This is the herd mentality lesson that many people need to understand. Passionate users are the ones who will tell others about the product. The Tablet PC never got past the passionate users because some early adopters panned it. Vista is the same way -- people criticize it but never tried it. Apple is successful because people say it is successful.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Interesting post, but I wonder if the better classification is educated versus uneducated, instead of passionate versus non-passionate. Early adopters tend to be mavens, people who are passionate about acquiring and sharing knowledge. That zest for learning drives them to seek out and explore the application of all sorts of products, services and technologies. Their passion isn’t just...
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- Jonathan Fields
While it's true that Microsoft "totally served the passionates" at the beginning, they started with the VISION of "a computer on every desk, and in every home." That took cojones back in 1976. Tactically, their market was developers; strategically, it was the whole world. There was no "passionates/non-passionates" division; there were only people who were going to get that vision sooner rather than later.
- Karim
Plumbing's "dirty little secret" is that, while the whole world wants running water, the number of people who care about plumbing and pipes is very small :-)
- Karim
Jonathan, I know several people who are extremely bright when in comes to cameras, computers, and the like, but they almost never share with others. Some of them are members of various clubs, but even with that they just are not much as conduits between people. Are they passionate? In a way, but not as communicators about what they're interested in. I think that's the difference.
- Loren Heiny
it's a great talking point but we can all agree it is not so black and white. I think there is an interaction between ease of use, percieved value, social support, and mindshare that determines what users will use what products and their respective patterns. We know far too little about this to start tossing out dichotomies but it's a good way to get the conversation started.
- Derick Valadao
Robert, I'm very glad you are making these longer, thoughtful pieces.
- Dean Terry
I remember talking to an old media journalist about this very subject back in March. She claimed blogging and podcasting was a waste of time because the audience was small. She said to go for the big money and aim for a larger audience. I don't think her and her college quite get it yet. I usually encounter this mentality from old media types.
- Chris Luckhardt
Dean: thanks, sometimes you gotta write down longer thoughts. Twitter and FriendFeed just don't satisfy every need. :-) Chris: I hear that too. Lots of people want to create avalanches but when you ask them to make snowflakes they balk at the task.
- Robert Scoble
Those that block Scoble because of 'noise' should read this piece. Ten bucks (OK fifteen .... ) says they unblock him. LONG ..but well worth the read.
- Charlie Anzman
Robert(or any blogger); If FF allowed longer posts, multiple paragraphs, some formatting (bullets for instance and maybe a few others), inclusion of graphic in posts and after post editing would you post "blog" entries here instead of your blog? (and if yes or no why?)
- Brian Sullivan
Brian: it would be a mistake to allow that here. It would destroy the gestalt.
- Robert Scoble
Not sure what gestalt it would destroy but that avoids the question
- Brian Sullivan
I would use it, sure. I use all tools to communicate with other people. That's why I'm on so many Web services.
- Robert Scoble
The perfect example of this is when I try to convince my friends to join Twitter. They say, "but that sounds exactly like my Facebook status, which is enough for me."
- Eric Florenzano
I have a feeling that for a service like Friendfeed, a mass influx of fomer 'non passionates' would be exactly what a lot of users on here would despise. Non passionates, I find, expect immediate, easy to use value. For the majority of those that I know, they would not find it here.
- Mo Kargas
This was very good. I especially liked the parts about number of users and what success looks like. It's definitely a tough nut.
- Kevin Gamble
Agree that "passionate" is the wrong term, and not only because of the abuse of English involved in writing "the passionates". It is inaccurate, as per Robert Seidman's point. Scoble's long post was good reading, but struck me as a little on the obvious side; probably it's not so obvious to the people involved in the day-to-day "web 2.x" turbulence. I'm an outsider looking in. Of course, I realize that what I just said means that I'm one of those "non-passionates" that the others have to convince to join.
- Dimitrios Diamantaras
What if someone built a platform that could connect passionate people with the people who developed the products they love. How powerful would that be? I hope very powerful...because I'm building it in my garage :) Can't wait to share.
- Ryan
Great post, Robert. I appreciate your taking the time to highlight the move back toward more thoughtful posts. This is the first time I have actually been to your blog (although I have been following you on Twitter, Friendfeed, Reader, etc. for a long time). Why? (1) The title of this post really caught my eye (2) very thoughtful and personal.
- Blake N. Cooper
"So, where do we go from here? I don’t know," - Robert, I can only do this once and once only. I'll point you to TP, the passionate imperative :)- http://www.vimeo.com/1087738... , I bet you never heard or seen this before !! LOL
- Peter Dawson
Peter: Tom Peters pointed me out in an audience one time. Love that guy. I hadn't seen this one, though. Thanks!
- Robert Scoble
Scobleizer++ :)
- dave mcclure
personally, I dont like it unless its brand new.
- Sean Oliver
Robert, great post. (Re)read Malcom Gladwell's "Tipping Point" chapter 6 on the need for "translation" to happen for the gap between early adopters and early majority to be bridged. The late majority is reactive and cautious, and will take much longer regardless. But the jump to the early majority is critical or else the idea/technology will never reach critical mass.
- Alex Schleber
Inspiring post! :)
- Jemm
As a non-passionate, I can comment my main struggle at the moment with FF, FB, twitter, del.icio.us, etc. I have 6 different distinct communities (work/family/friends/kids soccer/church). It is hard for me to get any one of these groups passionate enough & tech savvy enough to engage in the conversation. And if I did, how do I segment the conversation to the interested party? My church community could care less about my tweet touting my latest work accomplishment.
- Mark Stevens
Great post, wrote about it this am.
- susan mernit
LOVE this post Robert. Totally agree with you on your decision to keep focused on “‘thought pieces’ instead of just writing about the latest shiny object”, i.e. stay away from the Echo Chamber of the blogosphere. I really like your breakdown of the “passionates” and “non-passionates” - this is a continual paradox of user classification. I am definitely a “passionate” early adopter...
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- Susan Beebe
Hey, I got a birthday earthquake . . . a BIRTHQUAKE!
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Was just going to comment about that Wil! Happy BirthQuake! ;)
- Les Zaldor
Does Wil bother looking at FF at all?
- Chrimmus Tad
NASA Images Gallery Goes Live... YES PLEASE - http://nasaimages.org/
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Those are... Real?
- Yuvi
I love astonomy pics.
- Alan Le
our earth :)
- saeedeh
Yes, Yuvi. They're from the official NASA site.
- Mona Nomura
"The Heavens are declaring your works" These are so awe-inspiring and then there is also a sense of delight about them at the same time, really, when you think about it. If Joy were to burst from an intelligent heart into the universe, this is what it would look like. There is no art to compare. Thanks @Mona N for sharing.
- Melanie Reed
Melanie, absolutely my pleasure :)
- Mona Nomura
Glad to see you are on this Mona, we were talking about this on Friday - http://friendfeed.com/search... Love that this is now up!
- michael sean wright
Your post must've slipped me by... If I had known, I would've re-shared :) Btw, aren't the archives absolutely fascinating? I'm glad NASA is opening up their library to Google and this site. And that we, have the tools to share this information with everyone :)
- Mona Nomura
Hubble Fellow, Steven Beckwith, looks back to the first 2 billion years... http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- david beckwith
Now all i need from them is an api so I can build a rotating wallpaper app.
- Shawn McCollum
craaaap... thoughts? http://garyvaynerchuk.com/2008...
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well that sucks about shaving your head but it is a damn cool idea.
- Paulo Elias
from twhirl
His site is getting hammered at the moment. Kevin effect?
- Vincent X
DO IT!!!
- Adam Maldonado
embrace your inner kojak
- Seth Long
Considering my hair is at least 6" past my shoulders, I would cry if I did this. Literally. Good idea though as @Paulo mentioned.
- Matthew Horton
I fully support this meme
- Mike Doeff
i did it in college once also for charity.
- MG Siegler
I shave my head every two weeks. In fact I shaved it today. What's the big deal?
- Jason Toney
Bah, you have short hair anyways! SHAVE IT! :-P
- Matthew Horton
gotta do it! hair grows back, and an awesome idea can't stop at the first person
- Donny Warbritton
Dude...you've been double-dog-dared. Do it, then call out DVORAK!
- Jim
Talking about calling someone out! - Flip it, donate double his call out and pay some to shave their head, so the game can continue!
- Brad Parler
come on! it's just hair, it will grow back!!!
- Chris Jones
from twhirl
you're asking us? where are your walnuts?
- sean808080
from twhirl
Yes! You do have great hair and that's all a better reason to shave it off. I'll donate to your charity if you do it. This is some quality entertainment!
- Rachel Rubin
Lol talk about pressure. Ouch! Just give the money to charity yourself bro - keep the hair...
- Calvin Robinson
from twhirl
DONT DO THE HAIR, just give the money. lol Maybe give double so you DONT have to shave it. lol
- Leslie Poston
You need to do it since others will do it simply because you have done it. Think of the charities that'll benefit and remember it'll grow back :) Oh ps. your lady friend will dig you doing it for a noble cause
- Greg Rosen
from twhirl
dude, you gotta do it!
- Ryan
shave, baby, and get some nice razor lines put in too. Temp tat style.
- Boo
Dude I've been watching you since Screen Savers, you have had short hair before, and it is a damn good cause and idea from an awesome dude.
- Brandon
Do it!
- Andrew Fielding
from twhirl
Do it Kevin! Don't let things come to a screaming halt this early! Then call out Laporte!!! Leo your time is coming!!! LOL!
- Robert Couture
from twhirl
Or better yet ... SCOBLE!!!!!! Hah!
- Robert Couture
You're screwed. You better do it...at least it grows back...well it does at your age ha!
- Francis P Bonnemere
Do it Kevin!! It will grow back - Then yeah, call out Laporte or better yet - Dvorak!!!
- Les Zaldor
Do it. I need more blog fodder. LOL. P.S. Don't call me.
- Todd Jordan
I doubt that this thing will catch on... I'd be much more impressed if, I don't know, maybe if it was a contest with a prize from Gary, and that to be part of it you need to chip in in order to gather a big amount of money for a charity, skipping all that hair stuff. Or maybe to spread awareness about sites like Kiva.org, and get people involved. Kevin and Gary both have a lot of power in their hands, but I think there are more efficient ways than this hair thing. Best of luck though guys! Hope this works.
- Vincent X
It's like a reality game show: video double dog dare, pressure from the audience, and if you don't do it you should get voted off. Besides, it's for charity, so there's no harm.
- Pete Delucchi
do it and have Alex or Leo be next. Patrick would be too easy his hair is too close
- Todd Proffitt
Here's an idea - instead of shaving your head, amend it to say that if you don't shave your head, you double the amount donated
- Clay Levering
This is a great idea, but man I feel for you! How about everyone that comments here sends $5 as well?
- Rob
Ice Water - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Beautiful baby!
- Michelle Martinez
!!!! awwwwwwww :)
- Mona Nomura
oh my, what a little darlin.' That face is too sweet. :)
- Anna Haro
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Whoa. Congrats!!! How awesome is that?
- Slobokan
Pretty fucking awesome.
- loren feldman
You and Michelle? Wow. Congratulations! Wishing you two all the best.
- Vincent X
Congrats!
- pcnerd37
Very nice. Best of luck to you both.
- Rob Safuto
Thanks guys. Also for always being supportive.
- loren feldman
Mazal Tov!
- Jay Cuthrell
nice looking ring
- Tyler Crowley
Wishing you two kids all the best!
- Donna Mugavero
Congratulations. Best wishes.
- Henry Busby
from twhirl
http://usa.cupboardy.org/files... congrats dude
- Nick Martin
Twitter Finding New and More Creative Ways to Fail - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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man, I wrote my post last night around 8, but auto-scheduled it for this morning. Louis Gray beats me again! :)
- Sarah Perez
lol! nah, I guess I'll just add a link instead ;)
- Sarah Perez
I've been fairly vehemently against Identi.ca, but it's looking to be less of a copycat and more of a "twitter that works".
- Bradley McSpinn
@Sarah: It looks like the tech blogosphere never sleeps. Even I from my strange timezone constantly find someone posting ahead on the news I get to my inbox when everyone is supposed to be asleep in the US :)
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
Do we need to reiterate that Louis Gray does not sleep? Especially with twins, he is now awake at odd hours for a good reason.
- Rob Diana
LOL! yeah for real - that post of his was at 4 something in the morning. ;)
- Sarah Perez
Sarah - Don't feel bad. Got a bunch of e-mails this morning asking if I knew what was going on ... then checked Louis' Blog first?! Just can't beat a guy with a Blackberry in his pillow
- Charlie Anzman
@charlie and lets not forget his two new incentives to be up much later and awake much earlier than most of us!
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
My trust in twitter is gone. They've destroyed any sense of brand/product integrity. Outages were sufferable, but annihilating my network / community on their app is paramount to twitter deleting my account (they've in affect reduce their app functionality to an unusable point - can't DM numerous followers, etc!). Now a mass exodus of users will have to go find a reliable service that we can count on to not only preserve valuable network data, but also ensure higher uptime. Bye twitter, you suck!
- Susan Beebe
The part that sucks is: down feels like down. You just move on. Lost DATA feels like... Oh god, I'm TRUSTING this thing?
- Chris Brogan
Damn you fail whale!!! Identi.ca is where it's at people
- Gordon Swaby
Chris: EXACTLY!! Trusting twitter is like throwing my money over a bridge...not advisable.
- Susan Beebe
I sense a revolution coming. Don't mess with LG
- Charlie Anzman
@Sarah, sorry about "scooping" you. In fairness, Svetlana, Hank and others had already discussed it, and I linked to them. As for timing, yes, the twins are eating into our sleep. It was another "up until 3 and again at 5" type of night.
- Louis Gray
@Chris @Susan I think we should emphasize the fact that they have lost our data not theirs. I wouldn't mind too much about them loosing their data, but loosing mine is unbearable. It's like anihilating months from my life.
- Alex Popescu
from twhirl
Hasn't the missing Twitter data been recovered?
- Mark Dykeman
No, the missing data has not been recovered, at all, that I can tell. I'm still missing 900 people I was following.
- Louis Gray
Mark D my account seems completely recovered.
- Robert Seidman
Very, very funny title.
- Blake Robinson
from Alert Thingy
"Update We just received an update on the situation from Biz Stone, over at Twitter. He writes, "Some users lost followers as a result of an error during a database upgrade. We replaced followers last night and will be replacing followers today. This is not related to the spam initiative we blogged about the other day." At least Twitter is hard at work trying to remedy the situation." ---- per http://news.cnet.com/8301-13...
- Susan Beebe
its crazy to me that a service that exists to enable the direct and near-instant communication to a large community is still largely focussed on disseminating information through filters - there is certainly a need for them to communicate with media outlets that influence the thoughts of the financial community etc but why would they want us as users to receive updates through an intermediary who is going to color the raw facts the way they see fit? I just don't get it
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
This particular episode truly didn't worry me so much. Now the subsequent episode, in which a tweet appeared under Louis' name even though he didn't author it - now THAT'S a concern.
- Ontario Emperor
Don't Talk to Cops, Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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I've heard that same advice many times. I want to know what the cop said...
- Chrimmus Tad
I'm always amazed out how easily criminals on TV shows seem to give things up to detectives.
- Thomas Hawk
"Whaddaya in for?" "I possessed a lobster of inadequate size"
- Jeremy Raines
The great thing about America is that the cops can't use the confession after they beat it out of you.
- Gabe
A very good 30min watch. I learned a lot from this video.
- AJ Batac
Yeah, I learned a lot too. I'd naturally want to just tell the truth, but it often doesn't matter what the truth is, but what they can possibly convict you of.
- Chrimmus Tad
Here's the officer's response (I haven't watched it yet): http://video.google.com/videopl...
- Kevin Fox
This video was surprisingly interesting -- definitely worth watching. Part 2 (the response by the cop, who basically agrees with everything the lawyer says) is also very good: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Paul Buchheit
CSI is the funniest show for confessions, suspects constantly admit to things that either aren't crimes or the police have no evidence of them doing, it'sd be silly if it weren't at least a little true. Everyone should be aware of these things though, if they'll send Martha Stewart to jail, what do you think will happen to you?
- Richard Lawler
from twhirl
On a similar vein is a how-to guide to handling roadside police encounters: http://www.youtube.com/watch... This video is very in favor of the phrase "I don't consent to any searches" and implies that staying silent can be interpreted as consent, making a warrantless search permissible.
- Kevin Fox
Chris Rock's suggestions: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Brian Johns
Bjorn: I find making friends with cops is a good life-strategy. I've been mugged at gun-point twice, and I very much value their help. You also learn interesting trivia. Guess why cops run their fingers in front of your eyes? On Alcohol, most people's eyes will move jerkily sideways. On some drugs, they jerk vertically. Try with friends some time...
- Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell: I have friends in law enforcement, some of whom I worked very closely with in years past. I am always very friendly and respectful during police encounters. Having said that, however (unlike most folk) I don't fold like a lawn chair every time I see a badge (e.g. consent to searches.)
- Anthony Citrano
I've had friends with fancy cars (esp. women) get pulled over for no other reason than the officer wanted to look at the car/woman. Definitely good & bad in the police force.
- Mitchell Tsai
I watched this whole video, interesting.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Both parts 1 and 2 are worthwhile. Re the fifth amendment: "Too many, even those who should be better advised, view this privilege as a shelter for wrongdoers. They too rapidly assume that those who invoke it are either guilty of crime or commit perjury in claiming the privilege."
- Robert Konigsberg
Yeah Robert, exactly.. I read recently that something like 3/4 of drug arrests are a result of consent searches - e.g. where the officer did not have sufficient cause, but the permission of the searchee waives that need. e.g. "You don't have any drugs or guns in the car, do you?" "No." "Then you don't mind if I take a look, do you?"....
- Anthony Citrano
I didn't think that the cop was quite as good as the law professor, but it was interesting to hear some of the tricks they use. I wonder if this video will really have any effect, and if so, whether or not cops will be mad about its existence? I thought it was funny that in the first minute of talking, the cop got half the class to admit to speeding.
- Robert Felty
What should I learn today?
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I remember learning to use Adobe Illustrator back in 1989. It is one of those apps that totally changed how I looked at computer graphics. But is there any app today that requires such a steep learning curve? Anyway, in my attempt to make my blog more useful, I'm going to try to learn something new every day. What should we learn together?
- Robert Scoble
What's going to happen tomorrow.
- Iain Baker
How to build an IPhone app!
- John Duff
Persian Language :D
- Mil∂d
Learn the exact color of the sky at sundown. Not just "orange" or "pink" but go through all the colors and find the best matches. Then, we would have an even better description of what colors it is when the sun goes down near our homes. Yes, completely non tech and nothing at all to do with the web but..you asked what we should learn and, everyone can do that.
- Candace
Bob- how about XNA Game Studio Express, let's make games?
- Ryan
Iain: tomorrow we're going on a photowalk at about noon at San Francisco's Ferry Building with Thomas Hawk. We're also having Buzz Bruggeman on WorkFast.TV at 10 a.m. I hear he'll teach me some new stuff.
- Robert Scoble
I'd like to learn Episodic, but it's beta is still invite only.
- Brian Ries
Candace: in Half Moon Bay? Easy: gray.
- Robert Scoble
Booo! Now look at all the shades of the color and find the names of those shades..I'm sure there's some blues and other colors in there. @Tim; 42
- Candace
Mandrian Chinese
- Dan Harbison
from Alert Thingy
How to build a flame thrower http://bit.ly/1ca374
- gregory
To exercise your long overdue obligation to mention SEO and Tech Daily :)
- Charlie Anzman
why you should add Folksonomy to your blog: http://tinyurl.com/5ugljf
- Aziz Poonawalla
If you're going on a photowalk tomorrow, why not catch up on photo blogs. Great post here http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Andrew Smith
Learn how to add Disqus to your blog so that you can start responding to comments via e-mail when you're remote?
- Robert Seidman
Good call, Dan Harbison. I started Mandarin about 5 weeks ago. Everyday is another challenge and I'm lovin' every minute of it.
- Christopher Harley
Robert: I'm scared of Disqus and other centralized commenting systems. I'll discuss that on my blog soon.
- Robert Scoble
I think one of the best things to learn these days is how to give back to the community. I find it too often where companies are only interested in themselves and not their employees or customers. Cause marketing should be a key initiative for every company. Not just a monetary donation but get your employees and customers involved. It changes the whole culture in a long-term positive effect. Which cause do you support?
- Randy Ksar
what is Google up to with Knol? Also learn all about the new Open-source initiatives, like Bill Katz’s *Bloog* app based on Google App Engine...this is a new GAE based blogging platform http://bloog.billkatz.com/?
- Susan Beebe
Scoble: I hate to intrude, but any chance I could meet up with you and Thomas tomorrow for the photowalk? I work a few blocks away from the Ferry Building. I've been dying to meet both of you and I can't imagine a better place/way. If not, totally cool, but I thought I would ask :)
- Justin Korn
Cuneiform. Then teach me!
- Urban Thought Collective
I believe there is a plugin for WP that allows you to respond to comments via email. If there isn't...there should be :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Justin: of course! It'll be open to everyone.
- Robert Scoble
how to write Greasemonkey scripts! lol, seriously!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
@Randy couldn't agree more. A friend and I had a discussion recently about things he's doing to try to give back more as well as inspire others to do the same and he's also written about it (http://snurl.com/34bd8). Doesn't always have to be the next great wizbang tech gadget to feel good and inspired.
- Ron Emrick
how to narrow your focus for a while
- Dave Coustan
How to cook something different than what you would usually eat. It's fun, useful and you can blog about it.
- Steven Perez
@Robert I think I'm going to print "What should I learn today?" in 72pt type on some nice paper and hang it in my home office.
- ha3rvey (doesn't dance)
Disqus is one of the few programs that scares me, not just figuring out where/how to add the code but also what the consequences might be if I did. Yesterday I finally figured out how to successfully add G Analytics code to Blogger and Typepad for the 1st time, that was tough enough to start.
- Sally Church
Sweet! Just realized I didn't contribute to the thread... Learn: I feel we are kind of lingering in web 2.0. What is the next step? What should/is 3.0 going to look like? (edit: Just realized this is probably another thread and not a learn topic...doh!)
- Justin Korn
Learn about the semantic web and linked data. That way if you can explain it and deem it worthy, people may listen.
- Rob Diana
I'm going to learn about this software later.. .it just came out today. heh http://www.silverbackapp.com
- Daynah
all about yahoo searchmonkey
- john conroy
learn about something out of your element
- Anna Haro
google analytics and how accurate it actually is in determining trafficking trends and weather or not the data can be corrupted or manipulated by hackers and software.
- Chris Conway
Learn something non-technical but useful, like how to fix a running toilet or how to change your oil in the car.
- Andrew Leyden
Robert -- you should take a well-deserved vacation from learning for a day or two. :) You have one of the most ferociously inquisitive and acquisitive minds for new knowledge I've encountered on or off the net. You're making me feel lazy and sluggish.
- Sean McBride
You could learn how to design a satellite using MIT's Open Course Ware courses... http://beta.flowgram.com/f...
- Tony Lopez
How to get like, 50 comments in one hour. Oh wait. You figured that one out.
- Josh Haley
Learn how to edit video. Learn about cinematic composition. Learn about how the best interviewers get the best interviews. Then practice it all with your video capturing passion!
- Gib
Slightly different twist on Tony's suggestion, MIT just posted their Toy Product Design course. Explore that with your son (if he would find it interesting) - http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb...
- Casey
Learn to juggle!
- Niclas Johansson
That's a great question to ask yourself every day. Sometimes we discover an answer we had never dreamed possible before. Hooray!
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Scoble, what did you learn today? I learned about upgrade scripts in the product I'm working on.
- Jordan Hofker
Twitter - we' missing followers - http://status.twitter.com/post...
Mitchell Tsai, Ontario Emperor and Chris Jones liked this
"We’re going to go into maintenance mode to correct this problem."
- Peter Dawson
I got this on FF via my Room that is calleds as cloud-dashboard. All outages, maintaince windows across the whole darn werb/internet ccTLDs, DNS zones etc are aggregated here.. I am actually monitoring the health of the internet using FF :)- "http://friendfeed.com/rooms..."
- Peter Dawson
Peter, I just requested an invitation to that room. Thanks for the tip.
- Ontario Emperor
I just approved..feel free to add status pages ..I'll update the RSS Feed
- Peter Dawson
Thanks. I don't know of any appropriate RSS feeds that you don't already have, but if I come up with one I'll let you know.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
@Ontario - how do you like this FF room ? I find it kinda nefty and kewl. Not sure if you find value in it ? any thoughts on how to improve ?
- Peter Dawson
The latest version of Twhirl was downloaded 2,891,345 times already can you believe it! You should not I am just joking, but it is HIGH
Chris Jones and Duncan Riley liked this
I demand real stats!
- Matthew Imakyure
That is outright incredible. 3 million early adopters ? :) Congrats Loic
- Charlie Anzman
Looks like identi.ca support has been added to Friend Feed.
- LonelyBob
beware the FailWhale is eating your followers
Dobromir Hadzhiev, Mitchell Tsai, Andrew Hyde and 11 other people liked this
Twitter is FUBAR Come to http://identi.ca/igorthetroll
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Is it possible that the missing followers are inactive?
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
I really hope it is just a temp DB error. Even so, for this error I would take off my investment from Twitter and put it in something that really has a future. Maybe identica? You can find me there: http://identi.ca/lemec
- Alex Popescu
from twhirl
Yeah, if it's not, and people have really lost followers/followees, it's a disaster.
- Ian Betteridge
from twhirl
I smell this has to do with some anti-spamming code gone wrong
- Jorge Escobar
Mine's fine. Mom always said, never trust a troll :)
- jcunwired
Maybe Twitter's not just dropping db tables; maybe the missing twitter-ites are now network unpersons, doomed to drift the SN aether
- Derrick Burns
It is the doing of @amandachapel and "her" Twitter developers friends!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
@Jorge I'd say this is a smell of unresponsible coders. I really hope they have at least a backup.
- Alex Popescu
from twhirl
Twitter is working on it: http://status.twitter.com/post...
- Scott Beale
@Scott I'm glad they didn't throw out random users to increase performance.
- Benedikt Koehler
Damn it! It's not over!
- fbrunel
failwhale eating all of twitter for me right now
- Deva Hazarika
500 of my followers just got eaten by the FAIL WHALE....EPIC FAIL ...augh!
- Susan Beebe
Twitter is broken it unfollowed all my followers! Did same to many of my friends! Come to http://identi.ca/igorthetroll
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
a lot of contemporary problems would be solved if we can accept that DNA "DOES" decide certain things. It is not bigoted of me to say that being Jewish gives me access to certain DNA that does certain things. Mark Davidson is wrong! DNA is like twitter... is twitter's architecture evil? No... only if you get hysterical about it and start bullying people about what they can do with their...
more...
- Noah David Simon
A 'looking into it' message is not able to cool me down. I am usually not harsh, but for me peeps working on Twitter are becoming synonymous with poor amatures.
- Alex Popescu
from twhirl
I feel this message needs to get out there. I don't spam... but I think this message is so relevant to a bunch of threads. I took the black hat approach. I am not afraid to do that at times... it is a matter of balance for me. I don't work in absolutes. If I felt that what I had to say was not important to so much that was going on I would demand that you block me. please take that into consideration before taking action. I think these things through. twitter has done a huge disservice!
- Noah David Simon
Twitter is broken it unfollowed all my followers! Did same to many of my friends! Come to http://identi.ca/igorthetroll
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Oh look... and now it's down for "maintenance." I think they just need the fail whale swimming around with a roll of duct tape.
- Cyndy
om nom nom
- Veronica
I think it's time for Mike to update this shirt: http://laughingsquid.com/fail-wh...
- Scott Beale
didn't you design the whale? or am I mistaken?
- Noah David Simon
"We expect to be back in about an hour. Thanks for your patience."
- Susan Beebe
Try this Twitter Fail Whale design http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Ahhhh the Twitter crapwhale...I mean failwhale...well...oh whatever
- Dave Saunders
from twhirl
Twitter is like the ailing wife, while Plurk is the slutty neighbor. Eventually, your first love will take over. I will NEVER leave Twitter. And you can quote me as saying so.
- Juan Carlo Rodríguez
The busier I get, the more I make use of FF's "show best of day". Not bad for when I only have 5 minutse to catch up on things. - https://friendfeed.com/account...
Mark Douglass, John Cooper, Mike Fruchter and 24 other people liked this
its become a Std Process for me to check BOD at least very 2hrs :)-
- Peter Dawson
Sound like my behavior for the past two weeks. It's become a very valuable feature.
- Tsega Dinka
best of day, week, month, etc. should page indefinitely. Or at least 20 pages back or so.
- Thomas Hawk
I'm using it right now.
- Tom Landini
here something I started a some time ago - http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Peter Dawson
When I have time to catch up - I do (1) best of day (2) 2 days (3-7) 3 days ... 7 days (8) best of day - last 100 (9-14) 2 days ... 7 days. If I really have time to surf, I search by service & last 100 and may go back 30 days. It's fun to see which articles pop-up when you go back one day at a time, like sitting in the library thumbing through old newspapers, or returning home from a long vacation. Request feature: Best of last X+1 days (without best of last X days) and Best of X>30 days
- Mitchell Tsai
I don't like that BOD still shows stuff that I've hidden.
- Alan Le
I used it about 5 times a day
- Susan Beebe
Same here. Having some mega busy days, and FriendFeed is way more effective in delivering the punch than sucking up some 100 RSS feeds in Google Reader.
- Thomas Frütel
Best of Day is certainly a good proof of concept. The nice thing is that it's simple. Thanks for your responses.
- Mike Reynolds
I use BOD often. I am still amazed and perplexed (as are others) how some long conversations don't show up for hrs, then appear out of no where.
- Russellreno
What precisely is the forumula for determining "best"?
- Sean McBride
FriendFeed seems to be pretty good at tweaking formulas. I'd bet there's stuff beyond #likes & #comments...
- Mitchell Tsai
Does FF's choice of "best" closely align with your personal sense of "best"? For me, I would say not always, and maybe often not. That is why I would like to understand the criteria and algorithm that generate the results.
- Sean McBride
I’m not going to write about Facebook today - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Nir Ben Yona, Mona Nomura, Dieter Schwarz and 5 other people liked this
but you just DID :)
- Ric Johnson
Seems that you are back to Mark Zuckerberg Christmas Card list. Congrats!
- Alex Sauceda
It's becoming a smaller version of the Microsoft/Yahoo thing. Between that, and this morning's identi.ca on FF stories, I'm seeing entirely too many references to the same stuff.
- Bradley McSpinn
more! more! more!
- The Pageman
We all like the shiny new things, don't we? It's really hard to get off of that bandwagon, isn't it?
- Robert Scoble
I was freaked out yesterday when I kinda sorta actually enjoyed Facebook for a bit there.
- Thomas Hawk
Haha, I love the irony. By writing about not writing about Facebook, you've just written about Facebook. I think reality just collapse upon itself.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I actually have only just learned to appreciate facebook a little since I have the facebook app for my iTouch. Clean, no messy (loud) interface. Just status updates and contact info. I may get to like facebook yet, considering that's where I found some old friends and can now ignor the flashy (pokey) website. Hate the web interface. It's so immature (or I'm just getting to be an old fart).
- Alex von Halem
from twhirl
There are plenty of shiny new and interesting things to talk about, both tech and non tech that are not currently being covered by the Silicon Valley Tech Echo Chamber. How about covering the emerging alternative energy market sector. There a ton of cool companies, many located here in Silicon Valley developing new and cool PV as well as other energy technologies. I’d love to see you visit these companies, interview their founders and technologists and tell us about what they are doing.
- Jeff P. Henderson
yeah! as one of the world biggest facebook haters i really support your idea!!!
- Dieter Schwarz
Robert FTW
- Mona Nomura
Rapper Knocks Out Drunk Fan. - http://www.liveleak.com/view...
Anna Haro, Patrick Jordan, Bren -- Not Grinchy and 4 other people liked this
lol
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
then runs away like a punk!
- Chris Jones
from twhirl
LMAO! +1 Chris
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
'You got knocked the F*** out!'
- Bren -- Not Grinchy
Dude - after a punch like that, you stand victorious and challenge any other would-be adversaries...
- George Smith
The guy casually drags the limp body away...
- Hao Chen
@George No doubt. Why was he running from a guy who is in a crumpled pile on the floor? we'll never no.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
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