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- Simon Hicks
I am sorry I have met four entrepreneurs on France so far that aren't on Twitter. That is really lame.
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its pretty common outside of USA, most of my business associates in China or Japan are like eeeehhhh?
- Robert Higgins
Yep, sorry not to be american ;-)
- Stanislas Jourdan
More seriously, you have to take in account the "2 years late" France problem ... I'm afraid there is nothing to do to fix that ... ;-)
- Stanislas Jourdan
Perhaps, Stanislaus, but is Scoble on MiniTel? ;)
- John Craft
it spells market opportunity to me. Do you realize that late comers to a market/game will have the advantage of starting at the current level, and not from scratch?
- Juan Pablo
They should be on LinkedIn though
- Maciej Burczyk
I assume you meant 'in' France :) In India too most professionals are on LinkedIn rather than Twitter.
- Brijesh
they r on at least one social network ie: facebook or linkedin or their popular local network for sure. thats from all my friend's couch-surfers from all over
- polou/indigo_bow
As to being surprised, one word: Miopia. You, me, and most people :)
- Micah Wittman
I think this is a good thing. Twitter sucks.
- Alex Scoble
Preach, Alex
- Josh Haley
Yep, if I was an entrepreneur, I would shun Twitter as being completely unusable for telling a story and having a conversation with ANYONE. It's unusable for anyone but marketers and an entrepreneur needs to be more than that, IMO.
- Alex Scoble
Alex: SOCK it to 'EM - POW! ~ Why would any entrepreneur (outside&inside Tech) waste their time with twitter - there's no meaningful gain for time spent
- sofarsoShawn
Alex: that's lame too. Ever hear of posting a URL to a blog inside Twitter? That lets you do whatever you want with Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
sorry...is twitter back up again...?
- Simon Hicks
It depends who you are trying to reach - Twitter isn't *that* big an audience
- Jesse Stay
Now, if they're not on Facebook that's a different story
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: every single tech executive, influential, blogger, and VC I've asked today is on Twitter. That's who I want to reach. I don't care about your mom. As I look around the room EVERYONE is on Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
Everyone in your audience, yes
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, everyone in the world :)
- Peter Smulovics
Peter, um, no :-)
- Jesse Stay
I'm friends with a ton of VCs on Facebook, and I learn a ton more about them there than I do on Twitter
- Jesse Stay
I should show you my executives list on Facebook - I get to talk to them on a personal level there
- Jesse Stay
I just friended Louis Gray's Mom and get to learn about his Twins on Facebook, all while building a stronger relationship with him
- Jesse Stay
I can pitch things to Maryam and get her to convince you to do stuff ;-)
- Jesse Stay
And that only touches the surface of what you can do with my Mom on Facebook ;-) (although she doesn't friend anyone but her direct relatives)
- Jesse Stay
I think that's an unfair statement Robert. Indirectly you are implying that Twitter is the definitive method of reaching out which is incorrect. Also, I think Twitter is a major distraction and personally I think any Entrepreneur worth his salt would not be wasting time on twitter but working on his idea.
- Parth Awasthi
The numbers tell all: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/faceboo...
- Jesse Stay
Parth - I'm an entrepreneur worth my salt (IMHO). I'm on twitter. It's a place to make connections much faster than you can in a room of other business folks, or secluded away working on your idea. Take your best efforts at networking and multiply them by an order of magnitude or two and that's the impact twitter can have on your reach and connections.
- Brian Schwartz
Jesse - your stats are completely ignoring API calls and most everyone who uses twitter uses a 3rd party tool.
- Brian Schwartz
Brian, fine - compare API calls. Want me to show stats on the number of Facebook API developers vs. Twitter API developers?
- Jesse Stay
Jesse what's app just won the award for best iphone app for 2009? Tweetie.
- Brian Schwartz
Brian, and that says what?
- Jesse Stay
OneForty's tracking just over 2,000 Twitter apps - they're probably the most complete directory
- Jesse Stay
Sorry, forgot friendfeed uses enter to actually post. Tweetie was one of the most popular and used apps for the iphone two years in a row. Facebook and twitter are different web applications. Farmville et al don't appear on twitter.
- Brian Schwartz
The Twitter development mailing list has almost 7,000 members
- Jesse Stay
The Facebook developer forum has just over 45,000 members
- Jesse Stay
How many of those are game developers? You don't need 45,000 developers to developer twitter clients.
- Brian Schwartz
Actually, according to their developer conference from 2008 the number of registered developers on their platform exceeds 400,000
- Jesse Stay
In 2008 Facebook also announced over 33,000 apps - that was just last year
- Jesse Stay
Twitter has plenty of game developers as well - that has nothing to do with this conversation - this is about *everyone* being on Twitter, or supposedly that being the case
- Jesse Stay
how many of them are business apps? How many do you actually use? I am active on both and think they have different business models and purposes. Robert's point is valid. If you're in web / tech you should be on twitter and that is correct statement.
- Brian Schwartz
Brian, again, I think that depends on who you're trying to connect with. Most of the important people I need to connect with are on Facebook as well as Twitter, and I can be much more effective on Facebook than I can Twitter.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse yes you can do that on facebook. However, not everyone is willing to accept Facebook friend requests from strangers (which I personally don't do) and once their account hits 5000 friends, they have no choice but to transition new "friends" to a fanpage, where the interaction ca be less personal & engaging than twitter. Most people are willing to receive and respond to @ replies in twitter, even prominent people in web / tech space.
- Brian Schwartz
you gotta go where your customers are. If that is twitter - so be it. If not, don't waste your time on there.
- Simon Hicks
The people I connect with on Facebook aren't strangers. That's the thing - I build much more intimate relationships on Facebook. Not everyone follows back on Twitter either - you have the same problem there. Fan Pages aren't less personal either - each fan Page has to be fan'd by real people, and conversations occur in more than 140 characters, all with real people. They are much more intimate.
- Jesse Stay
The advantage Twitter has is it's easy to build an audience fast - it takes more work on Facebook. With Twitter, because the follow is part of the API it's a cinch to figure out ways to game the system and grow an audience really quick. I would then recommend transitioning that audience to Facebook where you can build even stronger relationships.
- Jesse Stay
But with the much harder audience building on Facebook it also brings a much more intimate experience, and much higher quality relationships.
- Jesse Stay
To you. This is a matter of opinion. I build relationships with people on twitter (similar to how you do on facebook) several of which I'm now friends with in real life.
- Brian Schwartz
Brian, as do I - I have had much greater success on Facebook though, where most of my relationships also become friends. FriendFeed has similar qualities due to the size of the network here.
- Jesse Stay
But you have a twitter account, I see it on your friendfeed profile, Robert is commenting about people who don't, I agree with him, that is lame. If you are in the industry (and attending LeWeb) you should at least have an account.
- Brian Schwartz
My point though is that Robert's statement too is a matter of opinion - you don't need a Twitter account to be successful as an entrepreneur. You can be on Facebook and be just as successful, if not more successful without a Twitter account.
- Jesse Stay
Use the tool that gets the best results for you. I personally don't follow more than 1k people in twitter. I don't want to. But at least make an attempt to try the tools before you rule them out.
- Brian Schwartz
I should add that e-mail also makes a great communication mechanism, as do lunch appointments and in-person meetings, as does a blog. Twitter isn't 100% necessary. It's a tool like anything else.
- Jesse Stay
Get outside the US and you'll have strange faces if you mention Twitter (although I know many places in the US you get the same, even amongst executives and VCs)
- Jesse Stay
We are not disagreeing (other than a preference of tool) but being in web industry you should have a profile on all of these tools and understand what they do.
- Brian Schwartz
I'm not even really stating a preference - I'm just trying to show that there are many other options out there that would make Robert's statement false.
- Jesse Stay
I'm also surprised you get strange faces from anyone in the US about twitter considering it's Q rating in the media. I'm in the midwest (flyover country to most of the rest of the US) and our social media club meetings get between 60 - 100 people per month. You can't just ignore twitter.
- Brian Schwartz
I spoke to an audience of 1,000 a couple months ago and only an eighth (if even that) of the room rose their hands when I asked them who was on Twitter. Look at the numbers - Twitter is still very small, regardless of what your Social Media Club says.
- Jesse Stay
1000 of whom? Web folks? Brick and mortar businesses owners? I speak to marketing crowds and the majority of them are on twitter (if not personally, at least the brands they represent).
- Brian Schwartz
Again, Robert is at LeWeb. This should be an informed audience.
- Brian Schwartz
Brian, software developers and entrepreneurs, including several executives
- Jesse Stay
Brian, Robert is also in France, where I am willing to bet not many of those VCs or Executives use Twitter.
- Jesse Stay
The theme of this years LeWeb is "real time web" should be a big enough of a hint what that audience would be discussing... I'm off to bed though, it's 2:36 local time for me. Cheers.
- Brian Schwartz
of course, but Twitter's not necessary if you live in France, unless you want to connect with Silicon Valley VCs or Executives, which even in that case there are other means of interacting with them.
- Jesse Stay
As far as I can observe, the french community of twitter is mostly crowded by journalists, bloggers, and social media enthousiasts in general. There are also plenty of entrepreneurs, but i think that as Jesse mentionned facebook is still the first place to be.
- Stanislas Jourdan
About LinkedIn, it is popular among geeks population, but viadeo (http://www.viadeo.com) is much more mainstream (probably because it is a French company ;-)
- Stanislas Jourdan
Tell me... what's your pager number?
- Johnny Worthington
And since we are looking down on people for not having a Twitter account, maybe you could dig deeper for us Robert: How many entrepreneurs did you meet that didn't have a iPhone/Smart Phone? How many checked their email directly and didn't have a personal assistant filter it for them? How many listed their cell phone on their business card? How many used voice communication as thier...
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- Johnny Worthington
This is for Jesse regarding developers and apps using twitter - http://digital.venturebeat.com/2009...
- Brian Schwartz
Jesse Stays outlines it pretty inarguabley, your lists are great in a false conscious, augmented reality, but with real VC's & with real business, we don't operate through a tweet deck
- sofarsoShawn
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loooooove the bass line in this one!
- Simon Hicks
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- Simon Hicks
FRIDAY AM update - two early outs see EA's MY NINJA (r1) and SPEAKNOEVEL (r3) get a start. Both have excellent winning chances. In race 4, whil BOMBADIER is expected to win keep FAIRY KING DANE very safe as he looks suited in this after an eye catching effort late on the Poly at his last start...Read more: http://www.simonhicks.com/kranji2...
- kranjiracing
Speaknoevil gets a start and with Saimee on board must be a huuuuuuge winning hope
- Blue Flame
I think so, Blue Flame. Good form, blinkersa on for first time and Saimee on board suggest he wins. I alos like the fact Sir Rumble, perhaps race fav, has drawn very badly and must be looking at easier options than this race (i.e class 5). Pacific Gift, the newcomer, is worth keeping safe at debut although the track watcher suggests he may need the run.
- Larry Foley
Thanks for that extra re-assurance Mr Foley. I also like Monterey in the last. In a recent trial he sped out the barriers to lead before being restained and was never pushed out. I think he will get a good sit or lead from barrier 1 and will be hard to beat if fit enough. Do you give him a chance Mr Foley.??
- Blue Flame
Mr Foley and Mr Flame, are you both going to the Davilak this evening?
- Simon Hicks
Big chance Monetrey and I see Frosty (trackwatcher) has picked him so should go well. Lorena was a big effort first up and if she improves on that she will be hard to beat. Mission Supremo has blinkers addded and trainer gray usually has a good record there. Tough races late. And yes, I will at the Davilak.
- Larry Foley
davewiner: Duncan Riley has a point when he says: "For the love of God Paul Buchheit, be a man and put FriendFeed out of its misery." http://r2.ly/mp82 - http://twitter.com/davewin...
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Actually, FF isn't Buchheit's to kill anymore. It's Zuckerberg's, and Zuckerberg alone has the power to kill FF now that it's his. And kill it he will; the only question is when. Buchheit was merely saying (in code) that Facebook's getting some of FF's technology etc.
- Dennis Jernberg
Sidekick Friendfeed So tell me again why aquisition is good?
- WarLord
And why does DW care about what goes on here?
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
WarLord: it's good for humanity. Facebook is way behind FriendFeed's feature set in real time search, DMs, interactions, etc. This will bring the features we're used to to 300 million people instead of less than a million.
- Robert Scoble
Eric: Dave Winer has just as much right to be interested in the future of FriendFeed or have an opinion on it as you or I do.
- Robert Scoble
Why all the calls to kill a horse who didn't break its leg? I just don't get it, if you don't want to be here, don't be here.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
+1 Eric
- Amit Morson
I've been quietly watching all of this talking back and forth, but now I'm starting to get pissed off about it. We all are fully aware of how vulnerable FF is right now. All this blather from you people with some clout in the social networking world will only possibly kill it a few days sooner. Yes, I'm talking directly to you, Robert, and also indirectly to DW and DR and the rest of the people going on and on about this.
- Kamilah Gill
Kamilah: hint: traffic is way down. Note. We are all still here. So what's killing FriendFeed is NOT us. Just because we're talking about the facts and you don't like the facts shoved in your face does NOT mean the messenger is responsible.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, so what IS "killing" FriendFeed if it's not the users?
- Amit Morson
Amit: we've been over this before. But it's the lack of future direction. That has NOT changed. Facebook is not willing, or able yet, to tell us there's a future here. So people leave. Most of those who leave do so without posting anything. They just have something better to do.
- Robert Scoble
Keyword: SHOVED. What do you hope to accomplish with all of this shoving, Robert? I don't need hints, I know all of this, I've read it hundreds of times, I'm on here every day. So you're all still here... I don't get your point.
- Kamilah Gill
Kamilah: there's a way to hide any item that bugs you. That's one of FriendFeed's killer features.
- Robert Scoble
You are being really... It's not just about things bugging me!!! I'm not some idiot that you need to talk down to!! I have been on FF since about May 2008, so pretty darned close to being an early adopter. I frigging know how this thing works, and you don't need to tell me to hide anything. You did not answer my question. Maybe you don't have an answer. What do you hope to accomplish by repeating yourself over and over that Friendfeed is about to die??
- Kamilah Gill
We put our stuff here... They can't shut it down. Why can't a site just keep running as it is? Hotmail has been upgraded like two times in its entire existence.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Well you know, if FF is dead it's one less place he has to spread his resources at.
- Amit Morson
Christopher: Hotmail has 300 million people on it.
- Robert Scoble
Kamilah: where in this item did I say FriendFeed is dying. I think you are projecting your anger that everyone is leaving and beating up the community here onto me. Unfairly.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, you did imply in the OP that you agree with the sentiment that FF should be "put out of its misery." Not exactly a positive sentiment. At least, that's what I took from your posting of it without comment that indicates otherwise.
- Katy S
Katy: what? How did you get that I agreed with it. I clicked "favorite" on it which brought it over here because I thought that Duncan's point was an interesting one and was worth discussing.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Ok, then nix my Hotmail comment. If Paul or Zuckerberg said they were shutting FF down, is that something you'd seriously get behind? Or would you think it incredibly unfair to tens/hundreds of thousands of people who thought they could put their stuff here?
- Christopher Galtenberg
If Paul shut friendfeed down I bet you it would light up as a trending topic right away. This would be no surprise though; it is common for deaths to trend.
- Garin Kilpatrick
Robert - I hit enter before I finished the last post - you can see the rest of it now.
- Katy S
I didn't see Robert say anything of the kind. He simply posted what Winer said and responded pretty reasonably since.
- Ken Camp
Guys I invested a lot in FriendFeed too.
- Dave Winer
Christopher: no. Because there's not a replacement for it yet. But what about in 2012? After Facebook has a TON more features? They will shut it down just like Google shut down Geocities.
- Robert Scoble
Garin, to Robert's point, FF isn't Pauls to shut down. It belongs to FB.
- Ken Camp
Anyway, Robert, it was your lack of commentary that led me to believe that you advocated that position. I wouldn't be surprised if others read it the same way. It's a matter of effect being different than intent, something that can happen when we present material to an audience.
- Katy S
I meant to say Mark instead of Paul, but the post specifies Paul.
- Garin Kilpatrick
Dave, so the solution is to self host everything? We both know it's not the solution.
- Amit Morson
Katy: lots of things I bring in here is to discuss what people's opinions are and to form my own. To tell you the truth I'm a lot more negative on the community today than I was a week ago. Why? Because of how people discuss things here and how they beat up the messenger. There is VERY GOOD REASONS why I'm bringing this up over and over again. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/friendf... should scare the freaking hell out of you if you think there's a long term future here.
- Robert Scoble
Companies don't keep investing in things if everyone leaves.
- Robert Scoble
Amit don't tell me what "we both know" -- that's a really weak and powerless thing to say. Then we start arguing about what I know. Feh. We both know I'm not going to bother. :-)
- Dave Winer
I'm not leaving :)
- Simon Hicks
Scoble, they've already said they're not investing in FF. And look at the graph on Duncan's piece. Everyone's leaving. The graph shows it.
- Dave Winer
Hey, no need to lecture me. I was just relaying the way this reads to some people. I didn't think I was "beating up the messenger" so much as clarifying how the post could be read. Maybe it's the English teacher in me, but it's a tendency of mine to address how I, as an audience member, read the discourse. If that annoys you - and it seems that it did - I'm sorry.
- Katy S
Katy: well, I don't agree with Duncan. So there.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I'll defend shot-at messengers, but the role you're playing (or widely perceived to be) is not just messenger, but harbinger. As Marshall McCluan would remind us: the medium is the message!
- Micah Wittman
Here's what I mean by defend: http://friendfeed.com/micahwi...
- Micah Wittman
Micah: well, that is ascribing to me more power than I have. If I had that much power all the Twitter users would have listened to me when I told them FriendFeed was the place to hang out. The fact that I couldn't make FriendFeed popular makes you wrong here.
- Robert Scoble
Robert - ok - I like clarity. So, are you starting to feel as if you've become Cassandra?
- Katy S
FriendFeed won't die until Facebook replicates most or all of its functionality (and very likely when that day comes, Facebook will provide some mode of transfer).
- Acrylic Style Music Group
I always have my phone number on my blog. +1-425-205-1921
- Robert Scoble
Acrylic: that's actually not true. CompuServe had more features than other things but CompuServe is gone today because the users left for a whole lot of reasons (many of which we are seeing in THIS VERY THREAD).
- Robert Scoble
What I'm saying is, it doesn't make sense to kill off a service in favor of another when the other doesn't provide for those that have used this service.
- Acrylic Style Music Group
That's like saying Apple should kill off the iPod Touch in favor of the Nano because the Nano sells more (not real stats, just an example). I say wait till Facebook catches up, that's all.
- Acrylic Style Music Group
Robert, you'll see in my link (right above your comment) I precisely don't ascribe it. What I'm also saying is there's all this panic and the perception that you're driving people away. There's a PR problem if you will. Who cares about blame - it's reverberating strongly, it's the negativity you mentioned feeling. You don't like it, nobody likes it. I don't know what the answer is, but a lot of people are venting the frustration and I'm writing this to acknowledge it.
- Micah Wittman
Micah: thanks. That's what I wanted to have happen. The community needs to come at this the way you did. There is a MAJOR PR problem and not one that's solvable because, well, it's not solveable. But, at least it can be fun if everyone took the tactic you did.
- Robert Scoble
Robert is reflecting peoples' already extant biases, like a mirror. He's providing confirmation for those who already wanted to give up on FF. For the rest of us, he's still here wanting to chat, stirring up activity :)
- Christopher Galtenberg
Christopher: I'm trying to do my part to get that line to stop trending down and move up.
- Robert Scoble
It's an odd kind of love :)
- Christopher Galtenberg
Christopher: well, truth brings the best community.
- Robert Scoble
I am, indeed, a technopeasant. I also play the bagpipes: a backwards, ancient, strange instrument that has a total hold on my heart. And a devoted minority of people keep this art alive. Is it conceivable that something like friendfeed, small (and smaller) though it is, could and should persist?
- T. Brent, technopeasant
*attempts to stretch a comparison*
- T. Brent, technopeasant
btw... Riley misspelled 'throes' in the first sentence of his post.
- T. Brent, technopeasant
It's possible the Friendfeed usage dip on the chart Riley showed doesn't reflect a drop in community size at all. It may reflect developers who are moving their FF mashups to other services in anticipation of an uncertain future. I recently changed a widget that outputs topical Tweets from using an FF imaginary friends feed to a Y!Pipes feed.
- Amyloo
I'm not going anywhere, moreover, I'm willing to pay a small amount to keep FF up. It's still my #2 starting tab after Gmail, I'm still enjoying using it and I just don't get it - who left?
- Kirill Bolgarov
The reason why Friendfeed users aren't convinced by arguments that FB will acquire all of FF's capabilities is about brand: who owns the brand, and whether you can trust them. FF is a feed aggregator, FB is mostly a power aggregator -- for Zuckerberg.
- Tim Ostler
Someone tell me what can replace FF now? The people that are leaving must not be using the FF enhanced feature set. I like what FF can do, I can't find it anywhere else.
- Keith Rowland
Keith: who said that you need to replace your usage here 1:1? Maybe people just are gettting lives again and living offline? Or maybe they are, like me, living with the limitations of other systems and working within those constraints? Or maybe they are blogging again? :-)
- Robert Scoble
Or, maybe, the real drop here is because most of the users here are just playing Farmville?
- Robert Scoble
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- Simon Hicks
@tirsen I see some brilliant stuff in Wave. Can't wait to see how you expose it.
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wave has the potential to be a mighty commenting system
- Simon Hicks
I see Wave as being a great collaboration (work group) tool but am not convinced of its role in "forum-like" discussion.
- Kathy E Gill
Wave is very cool. It's nice for what it can do. I'd love to see it have a 'Google Reader' or even 'Google Documents' tab so you can share an article or a news story with many people.
- Patrick
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One of my all time favourites. Turn it up!
- Simon Hicks
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Oh yeah - love the solo at the end.
- Simon Hicks
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Brilliant metal instrumental
- Simon Hicks
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A great comeback by the Spaceman
- Simon Hicks
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Latest from KISS (yes they are STILL pumping them out!)
- Simon Hicks
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What do you think of Paul McGeough's take on the future of journalism? http://www.abc.net.au/news... #war2pt0
I think the Paul McGeough's of the world want the world to be viewed thru their eyes only.
- Simon Hicks
Poll: Do you optimize content for search engines? http://webdesign.about.com/b...
yes - after optimising for readers :)
- Simon Hicks
Mega takes lead in uranium race - http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/busines...
very unfortunate that WA is adding to the burden that is being placed on future taxpayers for many thousands of years to come. Maintenance and security of the waste will not happen without cost. And it will need to be in place for a very long time. Oh, and hen there is the issue of illegal dumping of nuclear waste at sea...but you need to talk to the mafia about that (see: http://bit.ly/3UApI )
- Simon Hicks
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Apple rejects “iSinglePayer” app for being “politically charged” - http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009...
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so satire is not for the iphone?
- alphaxion
better use android for that
- Simon Hicks
Are you satisfied? - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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would love to hear your thoughts on this guys
- Zee.
Well, half your luck. Me: I'm waiting for Telstra to offer an android phone (I'm a google everything user) There may be some clouds on the horizon with the Motorola - but as yet, no rain. The only reason I have to wait for Telstra is that it is the only crowd with the coverage. 3 and Vodaphone offer android - but not the coverage... So enjoy your iPhone. I'm happy for you.(scuse me while i go and do a quick 4 second dance)
- Simon Hicks
Telstra? Oh...you're in Australia :)
- Zee.
I must admit I haven't tried an Android yet, but the chances are I'll probably love it. Like you, I'm a big Google boy but at the moment, it's the iPhone and how well it syncs with my mac that's keeping me. When Google Chrome OS is launched, I may have to reconsider. Either way...for now, I am absolutely satisfied :)
- Zee.
Zee: How much weight does it add to the iphone 3GS ?
- Sidharth Dassani
Zee: Why not and Android or rather specifically the HTC Hero ? I have it for a month and absolutely love it. They have lower quantity of apps than iphone but they are getting there, And they also allow apps like Qik and Ustream for live streaming
- Sidharth Dassani
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Clonezilla is free! Clonezilla is a good tool for taking a snapshot of a system and reverting back to it later as a backup or to get things the way you once liked them.
- Simon Hicks
Mafia accused of sinking toxic waste ship - http://www.abc.net.au/news...
Well done nuke industry. Exactly what I expected of you.
- Simon Hicks
Well done nuke industry. Exactly what I expected of you.
- Simon Hicks
Some people believe Twitter is killing @googlereader but it cant get on the SUL. @bing is not Google and also isn't SUL.
edit2: @googlereader would be good if it was real time and scrolled or had an optional view like friendfeed
- Simon Hicks
I've seen that word it a lot, need to find more about the SUL term.. reminds me of Single User Logon...
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- Michael Slattery
I am/am not going to the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit http://www.readwriteweb.com/summit... ...discuss: (your thoughts please?)
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Would love to hear thought about this, hope you'll join us!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
from iPhone
I would love to go to the RWW summit, but unfortunately California is on the other side of the world. So I hope there will be a videostream
- arjo
I'll be at blog world expo
- Wayne Sutton
please stream it. the TC50 and 140tc have been keeping me up all night.
- Simon Hicks
Wayne, BWE definitely an issue for some folks, it's a great event. Arjo, we still need a plan to stream a multi-session event
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
from iPhone
I'd really love to, but I'm going to BWE - already booked hotel, speaking engagement, etc.
- Jesse Stay
Waiting to catch whatever I can from here in India!
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
UK Amb to the IAEA on the challenges for peaceful use of nuclear power http://www.fco.gov.uk/en... at last weeks IAEA Gen Conference
what are the challenges for the taxpayers of the next several centuries...or so...?
- Simon Hicks
China goes green - http://www.indmin.com/Article...
"China has set a transport target of reducing road vehicle oil consumption by 60% by 2020 and hybrid and electric vehicle production will be central to this."
- Simon Hicks
"China has set a transport target of reducing road vehicle oil consumption by 60% by 2020 and hybrid and electric vehicle production will be central to this."
- Simon Hicks
singapore horse race meeting preview for sunday september 13, 2009 - www.singapore-horse-racing.net
It was almost impossible to pick a special on Sunday with most races throwing up a handful of chances -the exception being race 2 where we struggled to find one winner! So it might be a case of each way all the way and follow solid form and some instincts on a day where one good result could be the difference between winning and losing. The Novice event (race 5) does look an interesting affair though with three even prospects...Read more: http://www.simonhicks.com/kranji2...
- kranjiracing
how do i spend the winnings from happy everybody?
- Simon Hicks
You could have little go each way on the same horse on Sunday for fun. For some reason horses don't back up as often as they do in Australia (and elsewhere?) at Kranji but no reason why he can't give another good account of himself. fun bet only as he is not in my top three.
- bob
simon ,give everyone a treat, everybody happy.cheers
- longtze88
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Lionel and Simon Hicks liked this
oldy but a goody
- Simon Hicks
Very nice, very useful. You could also kill the search bar as the awesome bar does similar stuff.
- Richard
Nuclear power. Climate Change and the non-proliferation agenda. Good article in FT earlier this week, http://www.ft.com/cms... @financialtimes
the taxpayers of the next several millennia will be grateful for our contrib'n to their waste mgmt levies
- Simon Hicks
Nanosolar Boosts Cells Efficiency, Starts Mass Production - Greentech Media - http://www.greentechmedia.com/article...
The CIGS thin-film solar maker has posted two white papers about its technology and products, and it has named some of its customers who have inked $4.1 billion of contracts.
- Simon Hicks
Printed PV: Nanosolar unveils 640MW utility-scale panel fab, high-efficiency CIGS cell production - Photovoltaics International - http://www.pv-tech.org/news...
After staying relatively quiet for much of the past year, thin-film PV manufacturer Nanosolar has come out with a full docket of announcements: the completion of its 640MW panel-assembly factory near Berlin celebrated during an event attended by the German Minister of the Environment and other dignitaries; the start of serial roll-to-roll production of its flexible copper-indium-gallium-(di)selenide cells in the company’s San Jose facility; $4.1 billion in panel purchases from customers--including some of the world’s largest utility companies; NREL-verified cell efficiencies up to 16.4%; and new technical details of both its printed CIGS cell technology and utility-scale panels.
- Simon Hicks
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