"Hey Jim. You're quite spoiled if the Nexus 7 is your first Android experience. If you're considering switching I recommend you wait for the next Nexus phone to be announced later this year. Unfortunately the Android devices that aren't released by Google (such as the SIII) suffer from having additional bloatware loaded on top of the vanilla OS which causes upgrades to take longer to be released, if at all in many cases. This isn't an issue with the Google devices."
- Mark Krynsky
or did the fly do it? believe R knows about his backside, Kevin… maybe he's attempting to appeal to a base coalition here, add the British to the French for them to disdain
- Jerome Hughes
The Queen and James Bond together. How cool is that
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
Sounds like there are some bandwidth problems. My house got very strange bandwidth all of a sudden. Hope the coast survives. :-) Seems good after a reboot.
- Robert Scoble
I'm still waiting to be pulled back on the show...
- Robert Scoble
Francine: it was, but sounds like there were some technical difficulties. I'm standing by waiting to be called back into the show.
- Robert Scoble
It will be back shortly (the stream).
- Robert Scoble
Certainly can't be that the live feed from the Opening Ceremony is sucking up all the bandwidth in the universe. BECAUSE THERE IS NO LIVE FEED.
- Michael Markman
Michael: they are rebooting the server.
- Robert Scoble
Post-touch like Kinect would be cool
- Da
from Android
I absolutely love how easy it is for anyone to host a google hangout and broadcast it to a wider audience using OnAir.
- Laura Norvig
However, I'm starting to resent the whole thing of forcing us to tie our disparate Google products together. It makes me angry, the same way Facebook makes me angry.
- Laura Norvig
Sorry about the feed. It went down. my computer went down. geez confluence of bad
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Francine, I was amused by the Path ad where they mentioned, "Your best friend, your brother, your godparents. These are the people you want to share life’s moments with." I was thinking, no, actually, I share my life's moments with my Friendfeed friends.
- Laura Norvig
Kansas City has good BBQ and over on the MO side Lidia Bastianich has a pretty good restaurant: http://www.lidias-kc.com/ Good bandwidth. Good eats. Nothing wrong with that.
- Alex de Soto
a reason for folks to have both iOS and Android
- Jerome Hughes
Apple had to be smirking a bit when that ad attacked the dongles, knowing their plans
- Jerome Hughes
did Robert just show us a Kinect mounted to the ceiling?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
just tried to launch color on the Nexus phone. it didn't work
- Kevin Marks
Yes....mainstreamification of the quantified self is coming.
- Mark Krynsky
Tina: it's on top of my TV. It works great up high. The entire room is seen.
- Robert Scoble
Many amazing Android devices coming out for <$100 that give your TV access to the app marketplace and this week XBMC announced they're releasing an Android version.
- Mark Krynsky
"Yes I have Nithin. In fact I previewed it here. They've updated it quite a bit since my preview and have now opened it up so I'll need to revisit it soon."
- Mark Krynsky
Congratulations Bret on achieving all you have with Google, FriendFeed and Facebook. Looking forward to the news of the next journey. We're all proud of you. http://allthingsd.com/2012061...
What Rochelle said. And what Louis Gray said squared.
- John Craft
Pretty interesting development. Curious to see what Bret does next.
- Mark Krynsky
The startup I would like to see is a service where I can feed in all of my RSS feeds and things, and people can comment on them, and the most recent comment or like bumps it to the top. To make it marketable, maybe ads on the side of the page can be sold that matches the discussion that people are having. For example, a discussion like this would pull up adds for Google + and Facebook and Ground Coffee. Wait, that is like FriendFeed without the ads.
- Joe Boone
"Hi Laura and thanks for the kind words. I am familiar with Thinkup and have actually set it up for myself to test in the past. I will revisit it again soon an write a post about it."
- Mark Krynsky
Grimm for the current batch. Sherlock, of course. Older series: Homicide, Brimstone.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I'd prefer to watch something that's finished it's run so I can watch the entire series. I started watching Grimm but it didn't grab me. Seen all of Sherlock. I'll poke around and find something. Nice to have some free time again.
- Derrick
Psych, Fairly Legal, Covert Affairs, Royal Pains, Rizzoli & Isles, Franklin & Bash, Burn Notice, Necessary Roughness, Sherlock, Grimm, Supernatural. For older series, I'm currently watching the original Dark Shadows (1966) and log a bit of time with In the Heat of the Night.
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
I really enjoyed my first time Twin Peaks watch last year. I also enjoyed the Gilmore Girls watch and the Lovejoy rewatch. Leverage is great fun, great characters, four seasons but not yet finished. I'm not familiar with Supernatural but for the odd mention around these parts.
- Michael W. May
Really loving Lost Girl right now. (modern day faeries) Also, Sherlock and Game of Thrones. Undecided about going back to True Blood.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Oh, Lost Girl is great fun too. But also not finished, methinks.
- Michael W. May
Whites is so good! Alan Davies + restaurant kitchens = so fun.
- jambina
I love Lost Girl...I think it's only in season 2.
- Laura H.
I put in my vote for Twin Peaks. Also Downton Abbey. Queer as Folk (both US and UK versions). Six Feet Under.
- Hookuh Tinypants
Ah, shoot, I missed that bit. I'm about to rewatch Babylon 5, for finished stuff.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Do you have Hulu Plus? there's an Australian show on there called The Librarians, it's hysterically funny. I'm rewatching Heroes.
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
from BuddyFeed
Oh, I love Alan Davies. Unfortunately, we don't have Hulu. :(
- LB: #TeamMonique
I don't know if I feel like rewatching anything (did a LOT of the 90's stuff, pop culture addict that I was/am). I think there's enough here to get me started. Thanks, y'all!
- Derrick
Bored to Death. Party Down. Jeeves & Wooster. NewsRadio.
- jambina
I just started watching Shameless Season 2....and have begun to watch Doctor Who Season 5...my introduction into the series...I know #GeekFAIL
- Mark Krynsky
If you've never watched through Twin Peaks end to end... Well, I'd recommend it. :)
- teleken
I have been watching nothing but ER lately. I decided to watch the whole series from start to finish. I am almost finished with season 13. It has been fun to watch it roll along, from the days of AOL, huge CRTs and beepers, all the way to cell phones and mp3 players. And the roster of guest stars has been fun, too. Almost makes me want a t-shirt that says "I didn't guest star on ER".
- April Russo
I'd vote for The Good Wife, I keep threatening to buy all the ER DVDs (just got rid of 4 series on VHS). I'm currently working my way through the West Wing again, but I guess you've already got that. Erm, I'm loving Once Upon a Time, did you see Homeland? How about House? Or Big Bang Theory is good for a laugh.
- Heleninstitches
Rescue Me is good, too, and they have it on Netflix.
- April Russo
I second Rescue Me. It can get a little soap oper-y in the middle but it was a damned excellent series.
- Spidra Webster
Justified,/ new episodes of The Glades, Suits, Nessary Roughness are starting again
- VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS
I really wanted to get into the Good Wife, but it's so difficult since CBS prempts their sunday shows due to football or whatever sport and CBS doesn't put their shows online. I like the cast on that show.
- Gunnyman™
I'd like to cast my vote for Doc Martin! It also suffers from the foreshortened seasons that the BBC seems to love, but I enjoy it tremendously. (Because I enjoy watching people who are even more irascible and socially awkward than I.)
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
I'll second the recommendation for Rescue Me as well. Dramatic without being pompous or preachy and darkly funny.
- teleken
from BuddyFeed
Huff. 2 seasons you will likely scream when you realize there isn't more. I still think about those characters...
- Lnorigb
We are about halfway through Firefly, and also just started watching Being Human (the UK one). I think our next show after this will be Generation Kill. I've seen that one, but Jeff hasn't and I want to see it again anyway.
- Rochelle
Life on Mars (Britsh version) Doc Martin is good as it has real people in it and not the Hollywood skinny pretty people. Being Human Uk version is also good.
- Me
We are going to have an exclusive product launch from http://www.moboto.co on today's show (he launches soon). It's a cool iOS "appcessory". Plus, I have the latest Windows 8 on today's show.
- Robert Scoble
Kevin: yes, and I retweeted it too. I totally agree with that article.
- Robert Scoble
By the way, Mark Solomon @solomonomolos on Twitter is gonna join me. He worked at HP on the Palm team, so who knows what we'll talk about.
- Robert Scoble
I have, Kevin - I think it was Robert who Retweeted it into my stream..
- Kevin Costain
Oh, he still works at HP. Sort of like Woz when Woz created the Apple I.
- Robert Scoble
Just a few more minutes before we start. Steve is joining everyone into the call.
- Robert Scoble
I don't agree with that whole "a Windows 7 emulator tacked onto it" thing.. ummm.. well, anyway..
- Kevin Costain
Is there a reason why FF is still used as the comment system? Is Google Plus not up to the task?
- Brian Sullivan
Brian: Google+ isn't embeddable yet. Hopefully soon.
- Robert Scoble
Now, I must go.. Have a good one folks... Thanks guys!
- Kevin Costain
Kevin: Windows 7 is sort of hanging out in the background.
- Robert Scoble
I think it is likely that it is not real time either -- that part of it seems very poorly implemented.
- Brian Sullivan
they developed Word and Excel on the Mac
- Kevin Marks
I believe corporations are increasing the rate by which they change due to byod
- studentforce
but people who work "in the enterprise" travel. And tablets are smaller than laptops, people want to get work done on their tablets, I think.
- Laura Norvig
10" $600/avg tablet is the most dominant
- Ankush Narula
Talking to a guy from Princeton the other day and he was telling me all their young and old faculty/staff are using iPads
- Tom Guarriello
MS has to get in the tablet game before Apple/Android totally runs away...but on desktop slow to move...windows tablet needs to have business apps
- dan farber
I don't think that's true, Francine -- not in my workplace anyway, re:age
- Amyloo
Lots of students just don't buy textbooks, not right away anyway, until they are sure they can't get by with out it for a given class
- Amyloo
Kevin, every vessel could be a whiskey glass... in my book
- Tina Chase Gillmor
community colleges aren't going to give each kid an iPad and tell them to read their texts on it, Robert. You are dreaming. Cheap tablets will also be used
- Francine Hardaway
lol, Keith Teare, FUYM! Nice new acronym!
- Tom Guarriello
Studentforce has a point. He may not end up being the platform, but IOS won't be the only one eithrr
- Francine Hardaway
Amyloo: I agree that might be the way they go. I'm thinking of doing a book and we're thinking of doing it for very low cost.
- Robert Scoble
Anyone familiar with Chegg? Just noticed they have a new extext reader - not sure for which platforms
- Laura Norvig
I would bet on Kickstarter-funded books over ad-funded
- Kevin Marks
Francine: yup, I know. You probably are right that Android will get in the game but for now all I see is iPads when I visit college campuses and textbook companies. That probably will change, though.
- Robert Scoble
@Amyloo He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. (Sponsored by Chicken of the Sea) . . .
- Matt Terenzio
My thoughts exactly. I truly hope i'm not going to be disappointed from the iPhone 5 screen, it's probably gonna be around 4-inch but taller, not wider. Not a fan of that. S III on the other hand...
- Nir Ben Yona
Moe, cops are lagging on distraction, don't really want to enforce the laws on the books. I do think GGlasses could be deadly for very young drivers.
- Amyloo
Is someone referencing us for stock trading advice?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
my young driver loves android turn by turn speaking directions
- Kevin Marks
amyloo, they're the most bombarded and so defensive
- Jerome Hughes
I think salesforce is gonna be the one that will monetize mobile with identity auth but it won't be 'mobile' like we know it A more accurate description would be 'portability'
- studentforce
live musicians are under attack from recorded music
- Jerome Hughes
Here's a press release for "The Complete Collection" app and unfortunately it states that there were only 150 albums at launch with "more coming soon" http://www.engadget.com/2012...
- Mark Krynsky
Looks like Google wants to piss on Apple's new Mapping Service
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
yes and haven't been Jerry for decades now
- Jerome Hughes
"Thanks Ian...you've been around since the early days and have also been pretty active in the community. Yes, I've been getting those Memolane emails and they're pretty cool. Also checkout Timehop.com It's nice to reflect back and view the content we created and shared in the past. Also, why I plan to foucus more this year on creating a digital legacy."
- Mark Krynsky
My Starbucks cup isn't covered with ads
- Jerry Schuman
Actually the NYTimes pay wall isn't doing to well... three months after it was launched they announced they had 200k subscribers.. here we are 9 months later and they only have 435k users
- Stephen M
most of those 200k subscribers in the first 3 months got a deal of 99 cents
- Stephen M
Google has already implemented SPDY; firefox is now doing it too
- Kevin Marks
Who pays attention to Ads on the web?
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
I got subscriptions to WSJ, economist, forbes, atlantic with airmiles. They pile up, I throw them out. Not sure anyone reads them
- Kevin Marks
Am reminded of the recent documentary on the NYT where at a conference panel David Carr held up the printed homepage of http://www.newser.com/ with all of the NYT articles cut out... there was nothing left on their homepage. Swiss-cheese.
- Johnny C
the secret to Al Jazeerah's success is their relationship with people on the ground. When something happens, they are looking to be the 'one' brand for news for people to share the event(s) LIVE until one of their journos gets there to report. Great use of citizen journalism and professional journalism. They build their news sharing model/architecture focussed on the community with a view back to their services for global amplification.
- iconic88
Nice, the ability to consume your lame Verizon or AT$T LTE data plan in 30 minutes
- Jerry Schuman
Roku has a techcrunch and engadet channel
- Stephen M
Social graph personalization.... hmmm... I knew a company once that did that. ;-)
- Jerry Schuman
Hey, Scoble, you win about Highlight. Chelsea told me she has actually met Andy from HMB because they appeared several times in each other's Highlight:-)
- Francine Hardaway
I don't trust twitter.. people may get things wrong
- Stephen M
Speaking of Al Jazeera I just got back from DrupalCon where their lead developer did a talk where on how they built out a custom implementation using Drupal. It includes an editorial process for their writers that is optimized to get news published quickly on top of an extensive caching layer. Very impressive based on their site traffic. You can learn more and see screenshots of their...
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- Mark Krynsky
Stephen: people get things wrong in mainstream press all the time.
- Robert Scoble
I meet a WHOLE different class of people than the crowd I'm used to when I look at the #fringe stream while watching.
- Amyloo
who do you think doesn't get things wrong, stephen?
- Kevin Marks
Case in point on getting it wrong... the guy that did the video of him flying with his wings... freaking saw him all over mainstream media...
- Jerry Schuman
Same stories, right. Same thing on cable news.
- Amyloo
The thing I appreciate most about Flipboard is the instant drilldown and out capability. Example, click on a hashtag and hit Show Section.... instant gratification
- Jerry Schuman
Flipboard is nice but they need logic other than sorting by newest content in descending order. I'm a huge fan of Zite which is spot on for bringing me relevant content.
- Mark Krynsky
Let's all cheer for the 24 Hour News Cycle!!
- Frank Paynter
Yahoo!-ABC News Network Becomes the New #1 Online News Source - http://abcn.ws/GL6ypn reached a total audience of over 89 million people in the first month since they combined traffic as the Yahoo! – ABC News Network
- Stephen M
Mark, congrats on the 5 year anniversary for the lifestream blog..
- Jerry Schuman
I find much more value in "best of day" content over "latest" in app interfaces.
- Mark Krynsky
Scoble's story re "want a newspaper" like the grocery checkout person who actually asked me last week if I also wanted to buy stamps and some film. I said "WHAT?"
- Amyloo
We did this with QuickTime TV a decade ago
- Kevin Marks
they have servers that are nothing more then a giant array of HD antenas
- Jerry Schuman
that's why i have to sign in with my directv account to watch the fox news stream on their ipad app
- Stephen M
microsoft office is creaky as heck. I used to be a huge Word jockey, and I can't make it do anything anymore
- Kevin Marks
I use Google docs and spreadsheets because of collaboration
- Francine Hardaway
Kevin I can't even find the menus to do the things I used to do
- Francine Hardaway
New disruptive systems that are currently being developed in the BI space is going to finally kill off spreadsheet mentality. Pair good cloud based BI with an intuitive iPad interface and backed by things like Wolfram Alpha = game over.
- Jerry Schuman
in more important news, Justin Bieber is releasing a new single next week :)
- Stephen M
big data systems will lead the way regarding data interaction in the post-pc era
- Jerry Schuman
"Trae, I also own a Logitech Revue (Google TV) and unfortunately the experience to play local files out of the box isn't there yet. I have installed Plex on my computer and tested it with Roku which left me unimpressed. I haven't yet tried it with my Revue but will soon but my issue with Plex is that it isn't setup to easily let you point to a directory and access files easily from there. That is a major drawback imo. I bought another app for Google TV that allows this, but it isn't very elegant either. I also read that another update was released for Google TV that may rectify local file playback but I haven't tried it yet. For now the Boxee box blows away Google TV in terms of experience for local file functionality."
- Mark Krynsky
"Nice fucking post dude. I don't read or care too much for posts about startups but every now and then I come across a gem digging through the piles of bullshit it takes to find one. Thanks for this..."
- Mark Krynsky
"I think we are on the verge of a huge disruption when it comes to healthcare. Instead of healthcare continuing to be a reactive proposition, we are seeing many new devices and services to help us make it a proactive one. I saw many new devices at CES and shortly after Nike announced their Fuelband to compete with Jawbone Up and others. It's an exciting time and I think we're on the verge of these many new sensing and monitoring devices to take off in the mainstream. I'm looking forward to a more informed healthier world in the near future."
- Mark Krynsky
When I first came on to ff today, this is what I saw at the top of the feed. As I leave, it is at the top again. Thus, I both start and end the day smiling.
- Katy S
It looks just like Derrick is about to say "Goo goo ga ga"
- iTad
I'm just gonna go ahead and let this be my embarrassing photo meme entry.
- Derrick
"Not sure John. I have ethernet piped into my family room and always connect that way to my devices. There do seem to be many new options to offer wifi reapeating nowadays that might be worth investigating."
- Mark Krynsky
"Yea Nathan, the social features are pretty cool. Especially being able to watch videos shared by your friends across multiple networks on it."
- Mark Krynsky