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Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“@CathLawson why feel inferior? But I know that feeling. I get it when I hang around Microsoft's kernel team or over at Google or Facebook.”

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“Just landed in San Francisco and Twitter is down. Blame Scoble.”

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it's funnier when other people say it :) - Christopher Galtenberg

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Hey Robert broke twitter ... no wait, it's just twitter's way of saying, "Welcome Home"~!! - Susan Beebe

What's Alex done to Twitter? Alex? Robert is saying you broke twitter..... - WorldofHiglet

I really don't think it's your fault..... this time. :) - JCLeftie

http://friendfeed.com/e/4df2dc... - Tanju Yıldız (mavisland)

Awesome blog title -> "Twitter went down as soon as Robert Scoble landed in SF" - AJ Batac

Yeah. Nice work Scoble ;) I bet you brought some Chinese twitter virus back home - Dennis Bjørn Petersen via twhirl

And, being that you're Scoble, you're still able to Tweet about it. - DocileWalnut

Another Blame Scoble meme? - Roberto Bonini

It went down right as I ran my auto-follow script for SocialToo - it's probably my fault ;-) - Jesse Stay

Googel reader having problems as well... you must not have read all your feeds and now they have an out of memory error - Ian D. Nock via twhirl

See I cannot even type properly.. must be Scoble - Ian D. Nock via twhirl

Ian, funny thing - I did just finish reading my feeds. I think it's actually me taking down the internet this time. ;-) - Jesse Stay via twhirl

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Ask DLS: Business Week declares IM dead - what do you think?

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It seems a bit daft to declare IM as dead, then use the fact that services such a Facebook have integrated IM as evidence. Surely that's evidence that it's stronger than ever. - Chris Nixon

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Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“@nickhalstead I totally disagree with you about FriendFeed, see http://friendfeed.com/scobleiz... for conversation!”

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Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“Interesting to see the difference between the replies to me on FriendFeed and the replies at http://tinyurl.com/6a3rq3”

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“I invested a lot of time this year in FriendFeed and Twitter instead of my blog. Was that the right decision?”

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I think so. - Robert Scoble

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Half of it was right. And I'm not posting this from Twitter. ;) - Chris White

Time will tell, but I think it was correct decision. - imran

It's made you one of my favorite bloggers, if that makes you feel any better about it. If you weren't heavy on the social exploration I probably wouldn't read. - Daniel J. Pritchett

what outcome were you going for? - zach

From my perspective, yes. It's a much more interactive and broader experience for all. - Kevin C. Tofel

The right decision from which perspective, Robert? Did you increase "eyeballs?" Revenue? Both? Other? - Mark VandenBerg

I like FriendFeed and Twitter, but don't see how they compare to developing thoughtful, deeper blog posts. Really, I think FF and Twitter have their place, and I love them as well, but that place is certainly not a replacement to blogging. - Michael Krigsman

I think yes. Most folks can read twitter 100% of the time -- blogs are scanned. You tend to link to good stuff from twitter and have good headlines. - Ted Simpson

No question about that. In the past, websites were static compared to blogs. Now blogs are static compared to microblogging services. - Berci Mesko

I think only you can be the judge of that. We're all beginning to look at blogs as sort of the core of our outreach, so I'm not sure investing time in microblogging elsewhere is an either/or question. You are you. Your blog and social media network are simply extensions. If you're happy with your business model and continuing to grow, what's the problem? :-) - Chris Baskind

Mark: Revenue? Didn't change much. Eyeballs? Well, I have almost 21,000 followers here that I didn't have at the beginning of the year. Zach: I just saw that FriendFeed was going to be one of the most interesting new services of the year. Seeing how it was on the screen at the Chinese BloggerCon I think I picked the right services. - Robert Scoble

I consider FF as blogging in many ways and more interesting than a blog. - imran

You certainly moved the ball forward for the two companies. And if you think they're a vital part of the "internet plumbing", you absolutely made the right decision in helping to secure their futures. - Christopher Galtenberg

I've shut down my blog for the time being. Not getting the interaction out of it, the way I'm getting out of experiences on FF and Twitter. I think if you want more conversation online, the blogs (for now) would not be the way to go. - Helen Sventitsky

are the 21K followers different from people who followed your blog already? if so that is in increase. if not then the eyeballs are moving from your blog to friend feed. - Jonathan Jesse

Just wondering. Thanks, Robert. - Mark VandenBerg

My twitter lives alongside my blog in the sidebar, and I keep track of all my tweets by feeding it into a lifestream stored on my server. i think that's the key, as the two platforms, microblogging and blogging, work nicely together. - C. K. Sample III

@Michael great thoughts on blogs allowing for deeper thought development. that greater development, might lead to more meaningful discussion on FF then what may occur in the comment section - Jonathan Jesse

Also, check out Twitemperature if you like Twitter. Tells you whether you're hot or cold based upon what you've tweeted and how it ties into online trends and community: http://twitemperature.com - C. K. Sample III

It's a good question -- I've been thinking (and writing a bit) about the question of a blogging / microblogging balance. My working theory: that going forward the most successful bloggers will be strong microbloggers, and vice versa. - Eric Berlin

Robert, then I have a wunderbar über wonderful idea for you! You know, you can trust me :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

YES YES YES YES YES YES! - Susan Beebe

There are plenty of people up at blog-level covering "the scene". You're on the ground with people as they're trying things, talking about what's missing, what they need, what they like and don't. I think this is a good place for a tech-head to be. But blog posts to send signals up and out to the other tech-heads, reviewing your time embedded with the troops, will still be vital for growth of the net. - Christopher Galtenberg

No =) The audience for the standard blog delivery system is different than a hyper-conversation micro-blogging system. While these services are great with interactivity, they do not generate useful long term content in most cases due to short posts (usually under 120 characters) and basically being a link farm rather than useful content. The initial "posts" are not as in-depth as a typical blog post, and the comments are often "me too" type of responses as well. Balance your tweets vs. your blog posts =) - RAD Moose

I found I moved too much of my activity to Twitter and FriendFeed - I have tried to return to more blog postings, since I do have a community of readers that is only there. - Richard Akerman

Hard to say. Who are you, again? :) - Matt Tuley

Yes, I've heard little about your blog posts, but I've heard plenty about you being very open & active on social sites. That kind of interaction with your audience is a refreshing change and I'm sure it helps your reach (though I'm sure that's not what you meant). - Cains

Honestly? You put you in front of me. I would not have gotten to the blog as often, as I've seen you here. Just too much to read. - Ed Shaz/NextInstinct

I personally miss the longer/thought out posts that used to appear on your blog. While I don't think that using FF/Twitter has been a bad thing, and I know that you don't have time for *everything*, your more "editorial" and reporting style of blogging is missed. - drew olanoff

Cross posting of comments between blogs and friendfeed would be an interesting development. - Andrew Leyden

Jonathan: I think I've gained a good percentage of new people who found me here on FriendFeed. That's why I have more followers here than, say, Michael Arrington does or Leo Laporte do (and they should have WAY more, because of the size of their audiences). - Robert Scoble

I ask myself the same question often regarding whether I should spend so much time on social media sites instead of just writing content on my blogs. What I don't think I realized is that I'm still creating valuable content at all of my outposts that are still ultimately leading to my blogging hub. I think its been well worth it. - Mark Krynsky

@Andrew WordPress has a nice plugin to link to FriendFeed activity. Unfortunately for my platform (TypePad) I don't know of an equivalent. - Richard Akerman

ppl will follow you anywhere on web i think, but this is the best place to folllow you. - imran

I find FriendFeed to be more engaging, but it would be nice to gauge the amount of traffic a post on FF gets. - Spencer

the #friendfeed, #twitter, #socialmedian instantaneous replies, directs, and comments distributed throughout feed aggregation access points establishes a better communication channel for your voice - shayne catrett

depends. did you sacrifice blog content & share it on FF/Twitter? - I stopped blogging about useless junk since I can simply throw that stuff up on FF or Twitter now. Less frequent are my blog posts, but more quality, at least I think - Enrique Gutierrez via twhirl

@Richard if you can migrate to Six Apart's Movable Type 4, they have a widget for FF -- in fact, I'm going to be trying to get it running on my blog tonight - Woodrow Jarvis Hill

Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“Actually, http://tinyurl.com/58fdv3 is a better place to watch people replying to me on Twitter.”

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roomatic is better - Rocky

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NBC says that Eric Holder has agreed to be Attorney General for Obama. - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet

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http://www.blog.newsweek.com/b... - Thomas Hawk

Another Clintonista. Shocker. - Brian Newman

Poor choice - imran

I'm still waiting for hope and change. All I've seen are a couple guys that got rich as i-bankers and trial lawyers after Clinton left office. - Brian Newman

Increasingly, I'm getting the feeling the Obama administration is turning into a puppet affair. - abacab

Thomas Hawk posted an entry on Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection

GM Lobbies Current GM Auto Owners to Contact Congress on Their Behalf

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Is that a desperate move or what? - Jeff P. Henderson

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GM sent me an email asking me to lobby Congress on their behalf as a GM owner. I printed the email on my blog. Smells like desperation to me to see GM lobbying all of their GM owners to try to get this money through Congress. - Thomas Hawk

yeah, it feel pretty desperate to me. It also strikes me as a bit of an inappropriate way for GM to use my personal information. - Thomas Hawk

I wonder if GM will reach out via twitter. Is GM trying to take a page from the recent political season with this email appeal to their customers. Some say it is a desperate move but I think desperate times calls for desperate means. - Ruth Ferguson

I would agree about the inappropriate use of personal info, Thomas. I'm expecting to find the same e-mail when I get home. My wife also owns a GM vehicle. - Jeff P. Henderson

I called my representatives lobbying them to NOT support the bailout. - Jason Shultz via twhirl

I guess owners of GM vehicles should be concerned though -- it would mean an end to warranties, fixing of future recall worthy faults, and complicate future parts availability. - Brian Sullivan

Autos will be saved regardless of voters input - imran

I doubt it would impact future parts availability. How often do you buy OEM parts for your car. I recently replaced the timing belt and water pump on my car over the weekend and neither of them was OEM. When I replaced the fuel pump on another vehicle it wasn't OEM. - Jason Shultz via twhirl

It's a myth that you won't be able to have your car repaired if they fail. Any good mechanic can work on a GM car and parts will still be made as demand exists. That's what the market does. Now the parts may not be made by employees of labor unions, but that's another story. - Thomas Hawk

@Thomas Exactly. It's just fear mongering by the Big 3 to scare those who don't know any better into helping to bailout their antiquated business models. - Jason Shultz via twhirl

But it does complicate parts availability. Granted most of the parts are probably manufactured by 3rd party suppliers but quite a number of them will fail as well. If there is demand then somebody will move to fill the demand but this will likely be uneven. I am not advocating a bail out but bankruptcy will come with lots of complications. - Brian Sullivan

You have to remember two things: 1. GM doesn't own the dealerships; franchise holders own the dealerships. Ergo, GM doesn't service the products it makes, other than compensation to the franchise-holders in the form of waranty related repairs. 2. The majority of parts for automakers are produced, under license, by independant vendors who still need to make products to stay in business. - Mark VandenBerg

Lobbying efforts aside, how can the US keep affording to bail out industries with hundreds of billions of dollars? Take that money and invest in alternative energy and entirely new and profitable markets will emerge. You can't really do the same with the financial markets but alternative energy is CLEARLY the most prevalent opportunity for profitable investment that could create new jobs to replace ones lost in the auto industry and actually turn the government investment a profit. Something we're not really seeing with the bail out. - Devlin Dunsmore via twhirl

"I want to assure you that we are making our best vehicles ever." Great. Now start making vehicles that can compete with the offerings from the car companies who ARE NOT begging for taxpayer cash to enable their addictions. - Dave Roth

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Evernote Addicts: Lindsay Donaghe posted a message

“Pondering ideas for Evernote API projects... 1) Del.icio.us import that pulls the post's tags into the note instead of making them Evernote tags. 2) An alternative interface to view code snippets formatted as code and maybe handle other specialized text types. 3) An interface...”

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3) An interface to "attach" currently excluded file types (.zip, .psd, etc) to Evernote notes but store the files in Amazon S3.... Any other ideas? - Lindsay Donaghe

I'd love if Evernote could be used to "backup" small files - but I doubt that's what the company want us to use it for. It would be a good way to use up my 500megs a month though. - William Stewart

Matt Cutts posted a message on Twitter

“LIFE puts 10M images up and searchable by Google: http://bit.ly/afcn Hello, Ingrid Bergman: http://bit.ly/Xlqq . Rowwr. :)”

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Public Enemy – Fight The Power

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Matt Cutts posted a message on Twitter

“In case you missed the Baidu news: http://bit.ly/13h9P . Seems like a pretty important story.”

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Matt Cutts posted a message on Twitter

“There's a new Google Chrome dev release: http://bit.ly/dsc3 . The Chrome team continues near-weekly client improvements.”

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which is nice except that for me since Friday GMail is not working anymore in Chrome and nobody seems to be responding... :( - robert

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9 tips for the Google Mobile App for iPhone

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Great tips Matt, I just asked google what the square root of 1000 was and it told me in less than a second with NO typing, now we need voice for Gmail and Google Talk! Awesome app - Kelly Johns

I just added one more bonus tip that I forgot. :) - Matt Cutts

Kelly, I do like how the voice recognition works with the calculator. :) - Matt Cutts

Yes, and it works great for conversions, I asked it how many ounces in a pound and it gave it to me fast, the accuracy is amazing -- not to mention how good the local search is with easy to click telephone numbers and everything. A "restaurant" search comes up with some great local info. - Kelly Johns

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Matt Cutts posted a message on Twitter

“I submitted my "iPhone tips" post to digg: http://bit.ly/htpa . Social media gurus, let me know if I did anything wrong. :)”

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My favorite tip was the "translate a cat's meow into English." :) - Matt Cutts

@sharding 's cat searched for Paris?????? Funny. http://twitter.com/sharding/st... - Roberto Bonini

Chris Nixon posted a message on Twitter

“Taking five minutes to myself...and I'm not giving them back.”

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I'm returning to Half Moon Bay today.

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Welcome home Robert. I hope the China trip was enlightening. - Rob Diana

So, hamburger, burrito, sub or something else? What's the food you missed the most? - Andrew Leyden

did you loose any wieght while in china? when i was there i dropped 10 lbs due to the change in diet - Jonathan Jesse

Welcome back. Thanks for all your China updates. Really good stuff. - Dave Martin

The media has been alerted :-) - todd

See you next week when I get there:-) Let's have a China discussion. - Francine Hardaway

Jonathan: I gained weight. I love Chinese food. Mexican is what I missed most. And Maryam's Iranian cooking. - Robert Scoble

This is the first time I checked out Dopplr. I don't really travel enough to justify its use, but it looks like an interesting service. - Ontario Emperor

Same Ontario, I think my two journeys are Lanzarote and the shop to buy some lunch :) - Joe Dawson (beta)

congrats! - susan mernit

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Matt Cutts posted a message

“The Google Mobile App with voice recognition is live. Go to the App Store and search for Google Mobile App to install it.”

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Blog post is here: http://googlemac.blogspot.com/... and I found the help documentation online at http://www.google.com/support/... - Matt Cutts

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woah Matt Cutts on friendfeed - nice to see you on here! :) - Zee from WeDoCreative

I just saw the voice search is turned off by default for non-U.S. users. To turn it on, click "Settings" and slide "Voice Search" to the ON position. - Matt Cutts

this app is really great. g did an amazing job. - felix

felix, glad it works well for you! I'll pass the feedback on to the team, but they probably read here anyway. :) - Matt Cutts

I've been trying various addresses and it works pretty well with them too though sometimes if I pause too long while saying the address the search starts too soon. - Loren Heiny

Loren, after some practice you start to get a feel for what timing works best. - Matt Cutts

got a video here giving a run through, works great! http://www.seanpercival.com/bl... - sean percival

this app just made 5 or more apps I was using obsolete! - Kelly Johns

the local search aspect of this is amazing, it knows your location so you just speak the listing you are looking for and it appears on your iphone, brilliant! - Kelly Johns

agree with Kelly. I wouldn't use it for regular search queries but for local search its great. Saves opening up Maps, hitting the locate me button and then typing your query. - Jamie

Android is the elephant in the room here. Will the G1 be getting a voice search app soon? - David Erickson

This looks amazingly cool - andy brudtkuhl

Just curious, what about Nokia devices version? - Majento

David Erickson, I'm guessing that Android support is high on the want-to-do list, but I'll mention it to them. - Matt Cutts

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Viewpoint: Is Barack Obama black?

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"One well-known African American writer, Debra Dickerson, famously objected to calling Obama black arguing that because he is not descended from slaves, he is not of the people properly defined as "black." Ergo, he is not black - at all." - Chris Nixon via Bookmarklet

I think there are a few folk in Africa who might object to that definition. - Chris Nixon

Talk about splitting hairs. Is it reaaaaaally an issue? - Kreg Steppe

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I think the Face-Palm Blog would have been more to the point - ♫ Rahsheen™

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عجب وبلاگ زیبایی. تقدیم به فرزاد زمانی و تمام اقتصادیهای فرندفید رونوشت به میلاد. شاندیز اخر و عاقبت تو و سلما همینجوریه ها :) - mhmazidi

I like these. I feel their pain. - Ryan

Friends o/h said there were grown men crying all week... - VickyPearce

People with looks of "Oh SH*T I didn't see this coming" on their faces are not the people I want responsible for my retirement. I think I'll look after my own money from now on, thank you very much. - Alan Cheslow

haha, alan, that's very true. - Corie "Viper" Jones

Palm Pilots - Jason Brooks

this is hilarious... i gotta share this... by the way, it was either Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart who showed a composite graphic with such photos for a few seconds one or two nights ago... thanks - Mason Wong

sad moments - Farzad Zamani

Here's another - http://sadguysontradingfloors.... - Alan Cheslow

nice one, alan. :) - Corie "Viper" Jones

چرا اخه؟ - shandiz

الآن احوال بورس خودمون هم اینجوریه ها! - Farzad Zamani

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New Era

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RIP Mitch Mitchell

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:( :( - Mo Kargas

He was so great. - Steve Isaacs

He was incredible! - Head Ov Metal

He was so unique, I always told Hendrix's sound 'd not B as attractive without Mitchell. I feel so sad.. - Thierry R. Andriamirado

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New Era on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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January 20th 2009 is a street artist doing Obama portraits in San Francisco. Check out his Flickrsteram here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/j... - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet

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