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Live now: MacBreak Weekly with Andy Ihnatko, Scott Bourne, Alex Lindsay, and Don McAllister. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here...
Masatake E. Hori, Tyson Williams, John-Paul Dickie and 11 other people liked this
RE: Real time travel/vacation blogs: We attempted the real-time travel blog thing last year and it went pretty well. Had a map from Yahoo Pipes showing a trail of geotagged Flickr images that were uploaded as they were taken, UStream and ComVu (Qik wasn't available for our phones) for live streaming everywhere, etc. Probably will do it again this year.
- Lee Adkins
iPhone on VZW would suck. They lock down EVERYTHING on their phones.
- Tendonitis' Bitch
iPhone on Sprint would Save Sprint. I wonder if Apple would consider BUYING sprint then owning the hardware AND the network.
- Tendonitis' Bitch
It's Gunther Wallen Leo
- Tendonitis' Bitch
Could they afford it?
- Mark
Apple could certainly afford it
- Tendonitis' Bitch
Interesting idea
- Derek Duncan
Doubt the ftc would allow apple to own sprint
- dthree
Most definitely. Apple has a ton of cash sitting around.
- Jason Thompson
My ATT coverage is much better in my area (the midwest) than Sprint or Verizon
- Derek Duncan
Sprint's coverage is AWFUL outside the major cities
- Steve Hampton
When do the new Ipods come out? will the new touch have faster CPU?
- Mark
interesting. ATT gives me 3G and coverage everywhere I go
- Derek Duncan
Verizon is good on the coasts, but ATT is great in the midwest according to everyone I know
- Derek Duncan
have EVDO everywhere I've been on Sprint too except for at Walt Disney World, which I found bizarre.
- Tendonitis' Bitch
AT&T is great in Fort Wayne, IN. Got 3G service about a year ago.
- Jason Thompson
Just 1 note about unlocked iPhones: 32GB unlock 3GS = 1000€ in Portugal
- Luís Miguel Braga
Get more than 5-10 miles off of the interstates and Sprint is done.
- Steve Hampton
my parents have sprint, my cousin has verizon, and they are always complaining about dropped calls and quality. I have ATT and have full bars and never lose the network or coverage
- Derek Duncan
What's the difference between Go To My PC™ and Go To Assist™ ?
- Mark
can a deactivated iPhone still be used as an iPod? I have a friend with one whose radio is broken.
- Tendonitis' Bitch
I believe you can.
- Jason Thompson
90 bucks for a shirt is still too rich for my blood :p
- Tendonitis' Bitch
No socks Leo no socks...
- Tendonitis' Bitch
Scot Bourne is correct
- Tendonitis' Bitch
Agreed. No socks with sandals.
- Darren Landrum
no socks with anything but athletic shoes and dress shoes. deck shoes, sandals, no socks
- Tendonitis' Bitch
I hate socks
- Tendonitis' Bitch
can we restart the show? :p
- Tendonitis' Bitch
Agreed. Most definitely black.
- Jason Thompson
Question: Anybody know how is "lowlight"performance of the video of the 3GS ?
- Tom van Geffen
Now by "crack", you mean a physical but of damage, not "unlocking" or something like that, right?
- Darren Landrum
It's a lot faster, smoother, and just better in general. It's a no brainer to SELL your 3G and get a 3GS. You come out even!
- Derek Duncan
Err, physical BIT of damage.
- Darren Landrum
well it's like buying a new computer, of course it's going to be faster, well except for the macbook air lol. But it is better.
- Derek Duncan
I scratched my screen a lot faster. Damn.
- Arthur Wilfong
I bet that micro usb adapter is just going to be a dock adapter that apple will sell for $29
- Derek Duncan
LOL
- Tendonitis' Bitch
i imagine there will be a new imac keynote in august like usual where Steve will be back
- Derek Duncan
hmmm, I don't think apple has proven they can do well without Steve: they need to maintain the strong vision, and that needs more then a few months to prove, don't you think?
- Tom van Geffen
It's so expensive, making it one of the most pirated software products
- Derek Duncan
@don: yes, my company normally shuts down for two weeks
- Tom van Geffen
(my--> the company i work for) they make copiers, but the problem is the "drop in stock" which you have to build up again
- Tom van Geffen
I thought about taking a one unit college course just so I can get adobe's educational discount.
- Arthur Wilfong
The Texas Rangers are also a state wide police in Texas...and you need only one of them to save you....lol....read about the Texas Rangers History and you will get that joke
- Nic
well we might not have tvs or malls yet, but its already happening .... man
- bruce aldridge
from IM
Are these being recorded early? Or when will this be available for download?
- Geno
from Nambu
@Leo and other AT&T subscribers if you go overseas they have an unlimited data plan for 64.99 as an unlimited international plan.
- Winky Chow
About the speed of the iPhone 3GS. Japanese users feel that the new iPhone is a quantum leap in speed because we use to have VERY SLOW kanji conversion when typing on the 3G even with OS 3.0
- Masatake E. Hori
If you feel like sharing, what's your Facebook username?? (an actual link pls so we can add away)
Andrey, eric, Jason and 101 other people liked this
i'm http://facebook.com/zee.me (determined to still get 'zee' somehow....so if anyone can help, please let me know)
- Zee.
facebook.com/chinaboy
- ybs
facebook.com/metageoff
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
facebook.com/snyce
- Scott
facebook.com/ugura
- Ugur Aydogdu (jnbn)
facebook.com/john.deisher
- John Deisher
Tylergillies
- Tyler Gillies
Mark, Wilheim. Erick and ?apak understand how links work - awesome :P
- Zee.
http://facebook.com/amy.beer - yes, that's really my last name
- Amy℠
joeybean.
- joey
With and without the dot is the same. Both resolve the same.
- Rolf Schewe
http://www.facebook.com/giovy, of course... ;)
- Giovy
http://facebook.com/bigstarlet. Same as most elsewhere.
- Helen Sventitsky
http://facebook.com/niron1 [still looking for the culprit that got "niron" reserved].
- Nir Ben Yona
http://www.facebook.com/curtisa... - It's pretty empty there, though.
- CAJ, somewhere else
Ken you're pretty modest for a stanford alum :-)
- Brian Hendrickson
htttp://www.facebook.com/photoshop
- fosil (Can PAÇACI)
http://facebook.com/jaredws... -- just include a note that you're from FriendFeed and you're golden. :)
- Jared Smith
I'm assuming everyone who posted their link here would like to connect on Facebook? (I'm not a facebook fan, but was just wondering if FriendFeeders want to befriend on Facebook too).
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
I have a FriendFeed list on Facebook for connection purposes. http://www.facebook.com/johnebr...
- John E. Bredehoft
Because of the limitations to add friends here is also my email: bauwil@gmail.com (4 invite modus).
- Wilhelm Bauer
http://facebook.com/chrisof..., as it is just about everywhere
- chrisofspades
facebook.com/fsakbas
- F.Selçuk AKBAŞ
www.facebook.com/guilhermedarosa
- Guilherme da Rosa
www.facebook.com/davidward
- David Ward
http://facebook.com/mikechelen forgot to do proper MikeChelen capitalization >_<
- Mike Chelen
some random guy has appleinc - http://www.facebook.com/applein...
- Mike Bracco
I was saddled with http://www.facebook.com/JDPierc... because everything else was taken..well not true. /LordAlfredHayesJr was in fact available, but I went with something slightly truer.
- Joe Pierce
http://www.facebook.com/kinlan - thank my parents for an unpopular surname :)
- Paul Kinlan
/monanomura
- Mona Nomura
http://facebook.com/tamihania - as usually :)
- Hanna Wiszniewska
Wow, huge thread. I am http://www.facebook.com/fruetel - Nice to meet you :)
- Thomas Frütel
http://www.facebook.com/martin... - now I think about it I should have tried for just 'Martin'.
- Martin Bryant
http://facebook.com/legaria w00t just registerd. Legaria not acommon last name! ;)
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
I got /KeithBennett.me
- Keith Bennett
from BuddyFeed
where is this feature?
- Ahmad Rashad
Ahmad, facebook.com/username
- Alejandro
http://facebook.com/carlton... And I accept ALL friend requests...and love to get them! lol
- Carlton Hackett
You may have to add some eeeeeee's
- Charlie Anzman
facebook.com/timTech
- tim kerrick
http://www.facebook.com/shira... - I wanted just shiraabel, but my wonderful loving husband thought he would surprise me - opps!
- shira
Interface is broken on my side, idiots broke facebook. They're as annoying as twitter managment.
- Richard A.
http://www.facebook.com/yant... bummed with the 5letter min as would have liked just Yant oh well
- Yant
is there some way to import friendfeed friends to facebook?
- Mike Chelen
christian.dewald http://www.facebook.com/christi...
- Christian (Simply X)
nice to meet you, zee, i'm http://www.facebook.com/victorg...
- diego morelli
http://www.facebook.com/timmarg... Please feel free to add me, but make sure to tell me that you're from FriendFeed!
- Timothy Griffin
http://www.facebook.com/cains I'm not proud to admit that I actually set my alarm to wake me up at 5am so I could get that name, even though I never actually use facebook.
- Steven Cains
ok, now I'm http://www.facebook.com/lizunlo... , so what? ctrl+w.
- Lizunlong
http://facebook.com/ercument that's my first name.
- Ercu
http://www.facebook.com/stijnme... just what I wanted :-)
- Stijn Mertens
It's weird cuz I have jeremy.campbell, but jeremycampbell also seems to work? Is the dot between names optional?
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
Until someone with the same or similar name takes it all variations works as a redirect to your name.
- Eric Logan
@jeremy, dots are discarded. try jer.em.y.camp.bell, that should go to the same username without dots, jeremycampbell.
- Ercu
Thanks for the info @Eric and @Ercu, great to hear.
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
I just stuck with /waltruppar, but my Pug Marley is: http//facebook.com/FreelanceG33k I really wish pages didn't need 1000+ fans b4 being able to snag a name. Maybe they will wave this in the future after things calm down and allow pages in place prior to 31-May to get a name....
- Walt Ruppar
Walt: The 1000 user limit will be lifted on June 28, then we get another free-for-all
- Ken Sheppardson
Couldn't get ruip (damm 5 letter min! :), so got http://www.facebook.com/ruipe
- Rui Pereira
http://www.facebook.com/jalansi... - decided to go with boring real name so real life friends can find me
- Alan Simpson
boring but works: facebook.com/richardgoodwin . If I'd have known how easy it was to grab them I would have tried for something more original
- Richard Goodwin
from twhirl
http://www.facebook.com/matthew... - This is in effect the same as filling out a change of address card at the post office, but people are acting like it's a bikini party with a pony and a pinata.
- Matthew DeVries
http://www.facebook.com/ZuDfunc... ZuDfunck What do I win?
- ZuDfunck
http://www.facebook.com/ron... It is what it is. yes, with.periods.just.because
- ron k jeffries
http://www.facebook.com/fernand... Open to connections.
- Fernando Bergamaschi
http://facebook.com/mikael.su - Co-founder of http://IslamCrunch.com/ [Blog based on Islam, Spirituality, Tech & other cool stuff] and co-founder of http://www.MQu.be/ [Web design & development firm]
- Mikael Pittam
http://www.facebook.com/thomken... - Thom Kennon
- Thom Kennon
http://facebook.com/chrisloft - hehe beat six other friends I know on fb called chrisloft
- Chris Loft
nivcalderon
- nivcalderon
I just used my full name, which I also use for my Twitter account: http://facebook.com/garinki...
- Garin Kilpatrick
I DON'T HAVE ONE!!!!!! "tamar" was unavailable but there's no page pointing to it! And um, we DID have someone check in at 12:01:01 AM! I am royally angry. btw, zee, gonna be really hard to get "zee" given the 5 char minimum - get to know someone working at FB and you may get lucky. (I've been trying to get tamar@gmail.com but the minimum character count is 6 and my Google contacts couldn't help..)
- Tamar Weinberg
mmm contacts :-) i hope you both get what you like
- Majento
facebook.com/nationhahn
- Nation Hahn
http://facebook.com/audacio... (I missed deadline by just ONE hour ... all the other Simon Youngs must have got in first)
- Simon Young
from twhirl
http://facebook.com/betashop -- jason goldberg
- Jason Goldberg
http://facebook.com/emiliom... - Just let me know you're from FF or I'll ignore it. Cheers.
- Emilio_M
http://facebook.com/micah (at present I'm not seeking to add contacts on FB, but I will add you to a List here on FF if you contact me by posting a "Public DM" to http://friendfeed.com/dm2 )
- Micah Wittman
اینو پخشش کنید بچه ها http://docs.google.com/View...
- شوخی
http://facebook.com/cobatra I tried to get coba but it need 5 character
- Cobatra ♘
http://www.facebook.com/john... - Let me know your from FF..
- John Serra
Reactivated, chose Facebook URL, deactivated. Still I see no reason for using this service with those suspicious privacy policy and no way to show only a nickname instead of the real name.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Vijay aka scanman - http://www.facebook.com/vijaysa...
- Vijay
wins1 haha, that was the best i could do.
- Wins Fern
facebook.com/colby
- Colby Olson
http://www.facebook.com/jamesnj... This comment<http://friendfeed.com/the-nex...>was posted in reply to Zee. <http://friendfeed.com/zee> on FriendFeed. To comment, reply above this message. Unsubscribe <https://friendfeed.com/account...> from FriendFeed email.
- James Slater
from email
It seems like I have http://facebook.com/zulemao... AND http://facebook.com/zulema... when I signed up? I clicked on the one with the "." between my first & last name when I registered so who knows. Anyways, my FB is private, family & real life friends :)
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
http://www.facebook.com/paulawi... and my dad got wirth.
- Paula W
You can place a period anyone in your username and it won't make a difference (just like how Gmail does it).
- Andrew Trinh
http://www.facebook.com/mitchel... I was off-line and missed out on snagging my name "mitchell.tsai". One of my other 15 dopplegangers got it...
- Mitchell Tsai
@drew Duly noted. I blogged about it a year ago to get feedback, actually (http://blog.twitter.com/2008...). Yes, that's probably too long ago.
Anthony K. Valley ©, Susan Beebe, drew olanoff and 12 other people liked this
Ev listens to Drew. Note to self - channel requests through Drew.
- Louis Gray
You weren't supposed to see that, Louis. He's talking to Drew.
- Ken Sheppardson
@Ken - And this is why I wish I could "Like" comments.
- Lee Adkins
OK, I'm trashing the plans to change my name to "Steven Hodson." I'm changing my name to "Drew."
- John E. Bredehoft
+2 Ken
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
It was great to see a response, sad to see it was in a way that basically nobody ELSE would see.
- drew olanoff
+1 Louis!
- Susan Beebe
The Textedit icon blown up.
trumcgowan:
Here’s to the crazy ones. via harrygreen - http://leo.tumblr.com/post...
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Scott Kraatz, Imran Idris, Mike Lui and 19 other people liked this
Does anybody know what the Keynote one says?
- Jamie
Fanatical attention to detail... freaking awesome!
- Victor Panlilio
Jaime: Lyrics to a song, called "The Bitch of Living" (seriously) Link w/lyrics: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthr...
- Lee Adkins
awesome. thanks Lee!
- Jamie
"Numbers talk. People talk too, but numbers tend to lie less." - al3x
Nick Mutton, David Bausola, (jeff)isageek and 47 other people liked this
Ah we love you al3x
- Jesse Stay
Someone needs to wrap a PR person around him
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, but then he'd get all greasy :)
- Brett Kelly
Funny thing is that Twitter is all about people talking, not numbers I thought. If the people are louder than the numbers that says something's wrong.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: You should know it's not important what you say, what's important is how many other people say exactly the same thing.
- Ken Sheppardson
Jesse: these guys are all dopes. Numbers? Twitter isn't run by numbers. I can prove this. Alex should talk...
- Robert Scoble
Great quote man!
- Brandon Hall
Well, they are idiots about numbers then. Want to bet they are counting all the spammers as part of the stats?
- ld
New way to see @replies. Twitter Screenshots in Friendfeed :) See lots of them tonite.
- Atul Arora
Heh, good point about the spam accounts. The % of accounts that are inactive or spam is likely mind-boggling, which would make the % of wide-open reply lovers MUCH higher.
- Lee Adkins
So does that suggest all the Twitter users are liars?
- Louis Gray
I asked him that - no response yet
- Jesse Stay
And would you believe him Jesse?
- Gilbert Harding
Numbers lie all the time. It's called 'statistics'.
- Gabe
1up Gabe. Statistics can be fondled into saying whatever you would like.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics, and Twitter.
- Andy Bakun
Whoa, Feedback! - http://blog.twitter.com/2009...
Rob H., andré, Ho John Lee and 4 other people liked this
Whoa, do something about it, dude.
- Mike Lewis
I like how he tries to sound surprised :) i had a feeling they'd bring up a technical issue after the fact.
- Frankie Warren
Always a technical issue.
- Andrew Trinh
So, it's an engineering issue. Kinda like track was. Yeah, that ended up great. We JUST got "saved searches" in our sidebar, which is the closest thing we've seen that even remotely resembles it (but still didn't replace it). So, don't expect a resolution anytime in the near future, right?
- Lee Adkins
I don't understand how filtering out certain tweets could be easier than displaying everything.
- Daniel Sims
Daniel - I'm assuming it's because they have to go through each follower and determine if they need to send that tweet to their timeline based on this specific setting. With the celebs on now, that becomes a larger effort than just going one level deep and finding friends of friends. (Note I have no insight into how they store data - this is just shot in the dark)
- Damon Cortesi
Of course, a while ago they started doing the in-reply-to on reply tweets, which adds a tiny touch of overhead, I'm sure. That's the only outward-facing difference in a Reply and a Mention (which we still see) now that both have been lumped into the Mentions category. Passing those to everyone is more expensive because of that lookup in the database maybe? Who knows.
- Lee Adkins
One explanation I read is that the check for the setting is what twitter is trying to avoid. 95% of users do not use this setting, but they still have to check for it for every follower of every tweet. http://www.scripting.com/stories...
- Daniel Sims
+1 Lee
- Bill Sodeman
Damon (@dacort), 1 would think that by far the easiest thing would be to not filter out any @ replies. ZERO additional DB look-ups beyond straight "following". I never understood the logic of the default setting (I had mine set to "all @ replies"), & actually wrote an occasional tweet about it warning peeps they were missing out if they hadn't changed from the default. Twitter is an open platform (unlike say Facebook), & they already have DMs as a form of private comm. What gives?
- Alex Schleber
I actually had to change from the original setting to hiding @replies to users I don't know because my stream was flowing way too quickly for me to see anything I wanted to see from the users I was following.
- Andrew Trinh
from IM
if the stream flows too quickly you need to adopt a grouping client like peoplebrowsr, tweedeck, seesmic, etc
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Reading people's thoughts on the replies issue. We're considering alternatives. Thanks for your feedback.
Peter Efland, Marko Saric, Guillaume Foutry and 165 other people liked this
We would be happy to provide feedback in advance next time.
- Louis Gray
IMHO you wouldn't stir such a tempest if you'd do a better job explaining things (or requesting feedback in advance—you could use Friendfeed for that and get lots of comments).
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
Thank goodness you responded when you did - the frothy mob outside was about finished building the gallows!
- Brett Kelly
at the rate that #fixreplies tweets are coming down the pipe they'd be nuts to not re-think their decision and/or explanation
- Chris Heath
Nice to know you're listening!
- Michael Fidler
You should ask for people's thoughts first.
- Michael McKean
I reckon removing the feature was a good things. Has left holes though, that probably shoulda been filled first.
- Tim
Louis: sorry, until Twitter fixes how it treats early adopters I'm not giving Twitter free consulting. Only suckers would do that. We helped build Twitter and then it stabs us in the back. That's not making me willing to provide free consulting. Don't know why you'd do that.
- Robert Scoble
I volunteer to be your community manager for a month free. If I'm effective at communicating ahead of swarms like this, you can hire me and pay me retroactively. Because seriously? You really need someone to communicate with your users in real time.
- Karoli
I hope "considering alternatives" is a euphemism for "we'll have it back right stat, sorry!"
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
@scobleizer; "stabs us in the back" A bit over the top perhaps?
- Jordan Brock
Jordon: it absolutely is NOT over the top. When they recommend someone who has only been on Twitter a week or two as a recommended follower they are stabbing users who put a lot more time into the service directly in the back. I have about 1,000 days on Twitter and have put thousands of hours into the service. The way Twitter treats its users is deplorable.
- Robert Scoble
Jordan, Mr. Scoble has a propensity for the dramatic. :)
- Brett Kelly
Well since it was just a "small setting update" the simplest alternative should be to just undo the change, right?
- Ken Sheppardson
Brett: when you put thousands of hours into something and you get stabbed in the back by the owners of that thing you see how it feels.
- Robert Scoble
In the meantime, Twitter can get the celebrities to help out with its community problems. I'm not working for free and anyone who does for a company that stabs its users in the back is a sucker.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I can offer my services for free all day to Twitter. I know they won't take me up on it as they aren't interested in what I have to say and their track record proves that.
- Louis Gray
I'm really curious to know what kind of stats that were tracked to make this decision. Both @al3x and @dougw are hinting that there wasn't a significant number of people "using this feature", which I am extremely skeptical of. Would tracking the number of times I click out to a profile that I'm not following be enough? It is impossible for them to track whether I personally received value from a tweet even if I didn't click through, right?
- Lee Adkins
"The way Twitter treats its users is deplorable" What other instances justify this statement?
- Angus Burton
I doubt Evan cares about this thread since he only has 12 comments on FF.
- ld
@ev Don't you have more important things to focus on? ie., affiliate marketers who don't disclose what they're doing, follow bots, and all of the spam and manipulation that's ruining twitter?.
- Michael Fidler
Louis, I think @ev is listening to you and other Internet celebs, but not nobodies like me.
- Vinko
Vinko, I'm no Internet celebrity, and I don't believe I've been addressed by him ever, so he has an odd way of "listening".
- Louis Gray
It's an echo chamber.
- ld
It's an echo chamber
- dedlam
You can't go asking your customers about every checkbox and option. Knowing which is what makes a good decision maker.
- Ryan Stanley
Sure you can, when it's a feature change that enough users expect to have. It's not disabling a checkbox, it's disabling community discovery.
- Karoli
Karoli, here here!!
- Vinko
Twitter is clearly listening, and responding quickly and in public. Now, they need to roll back the change
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
Twitter knows all the geeks moved to FF. I doubt Oprah considers it a feature change.
- Ryan Stanley
wow what a conversation.
- Dustin
+1 to dedlam :)
- Jordan Brock
Twitter will "consider alternatives" until #fixreplies starts trending back down, which will happen over the next 24 hrs or so. Then they'll look to see if there's any dip in the user number or sign-up rates. There won't be, as nobody's actually willing to leave Twitter over this and new users who've accepted the default setting don't know this option was there, so this will be the last word on the subject you'll see from ev.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, that's true today and not true in the future. Twitter's continued decision to ignore user feedback and input and make arbitrary decisions will ultimately result in someone creating the next shiny thing. It happened with other services/sites and it will again.
- Karoli
Karoli: That'll happen either way.
- Ken Sheppardson
There must be a strategy around this, right? They wouldn't just arbitrarily do this. What would be the next feature they implement to make this redundant?
- Gregg Scott
Hmm. So, Ev is "Reading people's thoughts." wouldn't it be better if he talked and listened.
- Michael Markman
Michael: Thought reading must be something they're testing internally. Probably part of Twitter Pro.
- Ken Sheppardson
Could be the move that pushes more people over the FF wall. I've not considered this move until now, but now.....
- Debi Jones
@scobleizer, i thought the point of using twitter was because you want to not because you want fame and a pat on the back from evan for "helping". shame on you, that's the biggest douchery i've heard in quite some time.
- Snipergirl
Haven't you figured out that Scoble goes between "followers not important" and "look at my followers!" every 10 minutes?
- ld
Leather is an astute reader! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Snipergirl: that's BS. If you are in the media business the size of your audience allows you to build a business. Before the recommended follower list Mashable, GigaOm, and TechCrunch had smaller audiences than I did on Twitter. Now they have far bigger ones and people who don't do many tweets at all are rewarded while the rest of us suckers are left in the back of the bus. If I just...
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- Robert Scoble
The simple alternative is to make is a user preference. Even better would be groups, and then to apply said preference to groups.
- Barney Craggs
@scobleizer if it's a business to you then vote with your feet and go to a different service and stop whining about evan not paying you enough attention!
- Snipergirl
Snipergirl: that's exactly what I've done. But, sorry, I've put thousands of hours in and 904 days into Twitter. When a service treats someone who has put far less work into it better than me, I deserve to whine a little bit and anyone who says I don't isn't worth listening to. Let's put it this way. I see on LinkedIn that you are a hospital worker. What if you put in the time, do a...
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- Robert Scoble
Not entirely sure I agree with Robert, but I'll say this: it is incredibly frustrating when sites you use as intensely as Facebook and Twitter ignore the intelligent users. I won't say intelligent = early adopters, and I won't even say that it precludes the celebrities, but it is extremely tiring offering "feedback" when you're treated as just one voice. Clearly, CEO's are out of touch and don't understand us; yet, running a [sufficiently large] site by total democracy trends towards the stupid. #fixreplies
- tollie williams
Matt: I get what you're trying to say, but, here's another way to look at it. Twitter has signaled to the world that there's no way you'll ever been seen as a "top tier" person. Take me out of it. No matter how many hours you spend, no matter how popular you'll get, you won't be treated the same way as one of their personal friends and/or celebrities that they want to feature. To me that sucks. It is not a meritocracy. It's a closed society and that's everything I work against.
- Robert Scoble
The real problem is like this: Twitter was made for broadcasting and was never meant to be a convesational platform. Even friendfeed does the comments half baked. There are no comments for comments.
- Nitin Nanivadekar
The only feedback users contribute (that matters) is what they buy or use. If you don't like Twitter, leave.
- Jason Nunnelley
@Gattoo seriously, wouldn't this conversation be a LOT easier with threading and a respond feature?
- Jason Nunnelley
I don't know about meritocracies or closed societies, but i do know that the main way I find new people to follow on twitter is by seeing who the people I already follow are talking to...and if they say something of interest to me in a reply to them, I want to check that person out. If all I see are replies to people I already follow, I won't find anyone knew unless I pay much closer...
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- Shawna Benson
Gattoo: I disagree with that at least in part. The thing that always excited me about this media is that it's two way. You talk, I respond. But Twitter has biased its business toward the serving of celebrities who mostly use Twitter to broadcast and less to those who try to use it to have conversations with people. That's their right. It's my right to whine about it, though. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Shawna: yup. I think Twitter wants to push people like you to use search instead of the "@ replies" tab.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: that's a problem -- why would I search on something I don't even know to search for unless someone mentions it? Let's say person A tells person B something about daffodils and I find that interesting enough to go check out person B and start following them based on who they are, who they talk to, etc. Now, 'daffodils' aren't normally something I go randomly searching for info...
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- Shawna Benson
@scobleizer It's possible you give them far too much credit. I doubt they've any plan beyond limiting feed size.
- Jason Nunnelley
Shawna: I mean you can search for someone who uses your name. I do that on Seesmic Desktop and here on friendfeed and it regularly catches people who both use @scobleizer as well as people who just say "scoble" etc. Then I can go off and check them out, just the same as if I used the @mentions page.
- Robert Scoble
Jason: you're right. Twitter's team sure seems like they don't think things out and take the easy road most times. The recommended follower list is just one example of that. They could have done something really magical, but instead they did something half assed. They should have just hired Guy Kawasaki to do an AllTop page for it. That would have been better than what we got.
- Robert Scoble
"we've learned most people want to see when someone they follow replies to another person they follow [...] [h]owever, receiving one-sided fragments via replies sent to folks you don't follow in your timeline is undesirable" so despite what we apparently learned that people want we've decided to scrap it anyway. Interesting use of the word "learned" there.
- Mark H
The simple way of looking at it for me seems to be- when they say it's what most people are telling them to do, it's actually them telling most people what to do.
- Iain Baker
Scoble: You deserve a couple hundred thousand followers, for sure. I joined Twitter bc I read a post you wrote in '07. I hadn't looked at your follower count in a while; figured for sure you had at least been rotated in Suggest Users by now. That just makes me dislike the Suggested Users crap even more. ... The question here, I guess, is: did you do something so bad that Twitter/Ev/Jack/Biz can not forgive you?
- john erik metcalf
Scoble: Actually, even if you did, it would still be bullshit. What is this, Texas politics? Good ol' boy system. They need to figure out a better way, obviously things are getting very unequal.
- john erik metcalf
I don't know, Scoble, I'm going to take a different angle. Did Ev ever ask you to spend "thousands of hours" and 900+ days on Twitter? If so, then I'd say you've got a gripe. Otherwise, you did it voluntarily for your benefit, and frankly, Ev doesn't owe you anything; he provided a service for free, you used the hell out of it (profiting along the way, I don't doubt). It sounds like...
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- Bob M. Montgomery
I already miss what my followees are saying to other people. I've been using Tweetree for awhile now, because it would display the tweet to which my followee is replying (unless it was a protected tweet). With the new change, that aspect doesn't work, and Tweetree's entire platform is practically destroyed...
- Qrystal MqKenzie
If there's one good thing about this, it's that I can probably follow more people: I used to not follow someone if all they do is reply to people without giving context of what they're talking about. Maybe they'll make it so the visibility of @replies to people I'm not following is set on a per-user basis... which would be great, because some of my followees were SO GOOD at giving context, it's a major loss to no longer be able to see their @replies to people I don't follow!
- Qrystal MqKenzie
Qrystal: I feel the same way, except now it's a huge hassle for me to actually find all the people I should be following.
- Guan Yang
Bryan, this is about a setting being removed that was not the default setting. If you had changed the default setting to this setting you would see every tweet by the people you were following (the default was and still is to hide the @'s to people you're not following). The change is now there is no choice that setting has been removed and anyone who set that setting is now back to the default (which it seems you've always been on).
- Chris Heath
@scobleizer please clarify: are you saying that "stab in the back" = "not being on the recommended list"?
- Michael Markman
I'm still trying to figure out why Scoble is so upset. While it's noble for him to have helped pioneer the service and offer input on making it better, I don't see how that equates to Twitter somehow owing him any type of allegiance. Also, people seem to have forgotten that Twitter is an independent entity, responsible only to its investors (ultimately) and, as such, they are free to...
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- Brett Kelly
@Brett your suggestion that people go elsewhere to find a similar Twitter service is what makes the free market so interesting and exciting. While Twitter cannot be everything to everyone, every decision Twitter makes affects their future success. Look at what happened to MySpace and the rise of Facebook or Ford compared to Honda. If Twitter leaves enough room, someone else will come...
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- Damond Nollan
from email
Michael: no. He's said in the past that he would asked to be removed if he was placed on the list. Thought I can see Scoble's frustration, I agree with Brett on this one.
- Angus Burton
I haven't read this thread in its entirety, so I apologize in advance if I repeat anyone else's position. Two thoughts: 1) If the powers that be at Twitter were simply concerned with reducing the noise in our streams, why not simply change the default setting of the @ replies to not show all, while keeping the option available? Instead, they change the default behavior and remove the...
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- Phil Essing
I wonder if Ev has made it over to friendfeed to read this. I can see Robert's points. It would have been cool if more 'meritorious' tweeps were added to the recommendeds. But when the average non-techie person signs up to Twitter they probably find it more attractive to follow P-Diddy and Ellen than to follow someone they've never heard of, regardless of how much valuable content they've added to the service. That being said, Twitter needs to adjust they're listening ears.
- Jesse Newhart
Phil: that was the setting. It used to be an option to turn on all replies from friends, now there are not at reply options at all. If you had made the settings change, you're back to the default.
- Chris Heath
Jesse: I have to suggest that the average person would probably prefer to follow someone that actually shares their interests, and beliefs, likes and dislikes. Thus the whole recommended users list on any site is bullshit, and completely worthless. In the absence of a personally worthwhile recommendation, the average non-tech would probably prefer to follow typical pop stars (Brittney,...
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- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Phil: The network I've built since 2007 was largely built exactly with the optional feature that they just removed. I don't mean to sound hysterical or overly dramatic, but the change eliminated something that was fundamental to how I used twitter. It is a free service, they can do as they see fit, it's just a less useful free service to me than it once was.
- motownmutt
All the discussion here on FF is neat... but should it be over here too/instead? http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter... (personally, I won't be asking for the 'replies' to come back but... to each their own)
- Jay Cuthrell
Why bother? Twitter mgmt is full of shit. Now the spin that it is a technical issue is just bullshit. There is nothing technical about the problem. Remember the "new" way still requires parsing.
- ld
Jay: I find that Getsatisfaction.com never lives up to its name. I can't think of an issue I've posted or looked into where the company in question posted something. I've found several companies who reirect all their support questions to there, apparently as a convenient black hole.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Brett: Twitter being a free service and held by private investors do not make it immune to the desires of its user base which are the source of its (theoretical) future earnings potential. The less it chooses to work with its user base, and the more it makes decisions that alienate them, the more likely it it that they bail (as HUGE numbers already do withing 30,60,90days of account...
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- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob: There are 11 members of Twitter on GetSatisfaction and < 60,000 customers in the system. So, not perfect but it is a trending area and support does read things there. As a side note, that area has over 10,000 support topics... imagine the insanity of a phone support IVR menu that would take 12 hours to delineate all those "issues" :-)
- Jay Cuthrell
Jay: No one from twitter support supports a damn thing, unless you're oprah, or brittney or aplusk. Not on getsatisfaction and not anywhere.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Jay: I have never seen anyone from any company answer any question about anything on getsatisfaction.com. This includes WAY more companies that I've looked into than twitter. I never expected anyone from twitter to answer, but I've sure as hell expected someone from ping.fm to answer when that's where their support link took me,
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Update from Twitter - "...we're making a change such that any updates beginning with @username (that are not explicitly created by clicking on the reply icon) will be seen by everyone following that account. This will bring back some serendipity and discovery and we can do this very soon" And they've started designing a new feature which will "give folks far more control over what they...
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- Sharon McPherson
Rob: I'm not trying to change your mind... just to give you an idea of the scope of what "support" would entail. Of the 11 Twitter employees on GetSatisfaction they have collectively produced 1045 responses as of the count today on their staff page.
- Jay Cuthrell
When I last looked their last response had been over three months prior to the date i was looking. I would welcome my mind being changed, but you're trying to change it on two subjects I don't have much faith in a) twitter support in general, and b) getsatisfaction's overall effectiveness. Links may change my mind.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Chris Heath: It seems I wrongly assumed that the @ replies were set to all by default, likely because I chose that setting a long time ago. Thanks. However, that truly begs the question as to why the folks at Twitter decided to remove the option.
- Phil Essing
motownmutt: Like I said, I do understand the frustration caused by this feature removal, a frustration which I share. That being said, I'm not going to lose any sleep as a result.
- Phil Essing
i'm going to say this fully knowing the fan boy charges i will open myself up to - u can see how concerned i am about that possibility (yawn) - from my perspective scoble has a valid point (Louis is also welcome to offer help to a service he values btw) - about this time last year a myriad of similar conversations were taking place here as twitter crashed MULTIPLE times a day - i cant...
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- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
I am actually fine with the change because one can always go the persons page to find who he/she has replied to and it makes your page less cluttered. There is always some trade off but i am fine. I am waiting for more options from twitter in the future.
- ashish
Funny take on this - http://cli.gs/dumb
- Brian Kelley
I love the twitter product, but am growing more disgusted by the twitter management team. There is zero user input solicitation and this latest event #fixreplies is a classic mistake of product mgrs who fail to engage their customer base to get valuable feedback on the design prior to go live; instead, twitter mgmt is releasing features that are not vetting by their user base - huge...
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- Susan Beebe
waves at Evan Williams. Hey Ev!
- Thomas Hawk
Evan, perhaps with the next major functional change you might consider inviting ideas of your users; a good example of how this can work is presented by SalesForce.com: 'Idea Exchange' http://ideas.salesforce.com/ (no suprise SalesForce.com is good in gathering and using feedback from their customers; being a CRM company ;-) )
- Jeroen De Miranda
Scoble, you are a follow-blocker, and as such, you laid the groundwork for the devs putting in this nerf. There are quite a few thin-skinned A-listers who hate seeing back-talk in the @ tabs. this accommodated their wailing. It's wrong and should be put back. People who are vain enough to want to broadcast to followers have to accept that they will hear from the public, and often critically. Otherwise, go on a private AIM or FB chat.
- Prokofy Neva
Prokofy: bullshit. If you are a jerk you don't deserve to mess up my experience. You can keep commenting on your own place and I'll still see it anyway. Everyone I know searches on their last name. But I absolutely won't back down from your bullying and change my opinions. I will keep blocking people who are jerks and who are spammers. That's the only way we can keep our community from destroying itself over time. You are NOT entitled to get in my face, sorry.
- Robert Scoble
well, this whole conversation could never have happened on Twitter. I do appreciate the attention and awareness of the entire Friendfeed team, but for me the essential feature is the threaded comments.
- Peter Efland
So, um, if we all start using $username instead of @username, Twitter's change yesterday goes out the window, right?
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Or you can use FriendFeed since it doesn't limit what you see about what your friends are doing
- Kevin Kuphal
I'd use something like $@username or +@username, so the replies/mentions tab isn't broken.
- Lee Adkins
Does Twitter's 'mentions' code only identify messags that start with @name, or ones that just have @name in them at all?
- Kevin Fox
It identifies any tweet with an @name at all.
- Lee Adkins
In that case, it sounds like anything that would leave the replies/mentions tab intact would not work.
- Kevin Fox
On an update to their blog post last night, they claimed that mentions (@s not at the start of a tweet) would still show up to everyone. Just not direct @ replies.
- Lee Adkins
Innit better to use "> @username"?
- Damian
I see. Nowhere near as bad then.
- Kevin Fox
I'd just love to know the technicalities behind it. If everyone finds a way around it, how does it fix their problem? I'm starting to think it has something to do with the cross-tweet links provided with in-reply-to, but I'm not sure.
- Lee Adkins
The problem with this is that you're making the choice for your followers... instead of letting them decide (as was the case previous to the settings change made by twitter). Most people were using the selective @reply functionality that is now the standard. Therefore, by using a different notation all those people who aren't used to getting out of context tweets will be suddenly innundated.
- Frankie Warren
@Frankie - Very, very true. This is a problem that is being echoed by such users on Get Satisfaction. Either Twitter makes our choices for us, or those we follow do. Neither are right - we should choose what we see. Oh well, I doubt they'll budge any time soon.
- Lee Adkins
I am racking my brain (resorting to idioms since I don't have the words) but still confused. Twitter stops auto follows but blocks @s? WHY?
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They like the ensuing rabid, frustrated, angry, press coverage.
- Louis Gray
I sincerely believe the Twitter founders are as delusional as Dubya and his quest to spread Democracy. This seriously makes NO sense!
- Mona Nomura
from IM
...yeah, it's confusing. wonder if it has something to do with the planned downtime at Noon Pacific today. Big changes?
- .LAG liked that
I think we should sick Oliver Stone on them and create a movie
- Jesse Stay
maybe spammers were using @replies somehow to follow people? would that make any sense...
- Frankie Warren
I know this is so stupd but I truly don't understand the logic... and seriously? Spammers, Frankie? LOL If their thinking is that uh, simple...? I would not even invest a penny lollllllll.
- Mona Nomura
It doesn't make sense. I just read a post from ev, where he tries to explain it over a year ago. It appears no one liked the idea back then either http://bit.ly/vfKY
- Michael Fidler
There might be a reason we don't see, but their handling of this is as comical as bewildering. Were they not getting enough press before? Geez.
- Chris Baskind
This whole thing is giving me a migraine. I should go to sleep now and maybe this will all go away by morning...
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Chris, the scariest part is I don't think the founders saw it as a rebuttal to the blog post or press. I truly believe they thought this was the best decision for them (whatever which way it played out). And I am struggling to see any relevance.
- Mona Nomura
There has got to be some performance optimization that this enables. I don't think they'd have just made us go cold turkey if they weren't going to see some huge internal boost from something. It still doesn't make me okay with the decision. For me, random @s was likely more important than SMS and DMs. But that's just me.
- Lee Adkins
What bugs me the most -- other than a hasty change to the service without obvious explanation -- is that they edited the blog post announcement without indicating changes. Meanwhile, the #fixreplies hashtag burns like the aftermath of a risky weekend in a Thai bordello.
- Chris Baskind
ok, here it is, one of my most embarrassing pictures, me @ age 16: http://revision3.com/diggnat...
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I was going to call "FAIL" because of the 30 second ad I had to watch just to see a picture, but the result was worth it. El. Oh. El.
- Lee Adkins
Nintendo Launching App Store For DSi - http://digg.com/nintend...
"While the PS3 does show you actual dollar amounts, its micro payment system is actually closer to the Wii and Xbox in that you still have to fund a wallet before you can buy anything. This has kept me from buying a lot of stuff I didn't really want because I got a second chance to change my mind. The iTunes model makes me waste lots of money (and I can't blaming them for that), which is great for business. I agree though, to make this win it should be closer to iTunes. Too bad they already said it would use DSi points. There were rumblings that DSi points and Wii points wouldn't be cross-compatible, but I hope that turns out to be BS once it hits the States."
- Lee Adkins
How to Enable 3G Tethering in Your iPhone 3.0 Now - http://digg.com/apple...
"A2DP is working. Sound quality was pretty poor comparedr to other devices I've used, but I did try it right after resyncing everything (before a restart). I won't actually judge it until I play with it again. But yeah, it works."
- Lee Adkins
Does anyone else remember that weird, "good" feeling we all had after SXSW last year? Hoping for it again? What do you think?
I remember this huge sense of creativity and forward-thinking that came in the days and weeks following SXSWi. Everyone involved seemed to congregate around Twitter, and the ideas flowed. I want to write something about it, because it was a good feeling. I think it drove collaboration and creativity among different people in the tech/social media world. I can't get my thoughts straight, though. What do you think? Can we expect to get that same "good" feeling (that even bleeds over to us not going)? Wonder what the hot thing will be. Look how Twitter took off, to the point where it doesn't even feel the same anymore. Will there be something else that early adopters can flock to for the next few months to feed our hunger? Comment here and let me know. If I can gather my thoughts enough to write a post, I'll include your comments in it.
- Lee Adkins
iPhone Push Notification Server tied to Snow Leopard Server - http://digg.com/apple...
"The actual push notifications are simply that - notifications. Your iPhone will receive a notification via an alert or number flag on the app icon, letting you know the app has new information available. Once you start the app, the new data will be downloaded directly from whatever server the app uses. I'm sure there will be other layers and options at launch, but this was what was described when it was announced."
- Lee Adkins
Why Yahoo’s announcement today won’t get as much hype as Google’s - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
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What is it?
- paul mooney
Yahoo is still around? I kid...
- andy brudtkuhl
Ya Who?
- Mike Lewis
from twhirl
Yahoo PR sucks, they send out NDA's to the wrong crowd
- paul mooney
Speaking of SXSW ... will you be there Robert? I assume such
- andy brudtkuhl
I found it at last http://ysearchblog.com/
- paul mooney
Nice post, I think you nailed that one.
- Laura Norvig
Great post, Robert!
- Bob Starr
I think it might have been bigger news had Windows Live Search come out with this.
- David Wilson
So, they are announcing something similar to Google Notebook, except it will automatically save some searches into said notebook sometimes. Great use of resources. Yahoo needs to really *push* something. This evolutionary (for them) stuff is not going to cut it. Look at Latitude. Tech world is going nuts over it.That should have been Yahoo. Anyone ever use Fire Eagle? Unfortunately, they can't really blame anyone but themselves.
- Lee Adkins
1. poor Yahoo. 2. Scoble, It's good to have you back from Davos.
- Dana Dowell
1. poor Yahoo. 2. Scoble, it's good to have you back from Davos.
- Dana Dowell
@Lee, the problem for Yahoo is the early adopter crowd are already loyal Google users. Yahoo's core products are simply too far behind to compete for that audience. They should stick to providing their mainstream audience with simpler services.
- Steven Cains
@cains you may be right, they compete with aol, not google
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
the search pad itself seems pretty cool. check out this intro video: http://tools.search.yahoo.com/SearchP...
- Puneet Thapliyal
Robert, doesn't your post make a case for appealing to Alpha Geeks? And if it does, how does this point jive with your opinion that too many companies are building for geeks and forgetting about the everyday user?
- Andrew Warner
Andrew: if you want to be successful you've got to build for both. Build something just for the geeks and your market will be small. Build just for the mass audience and it'll be lame and won't get talked up.
- Robert Scoble
Andrew, appealing to early adopters is not optional. Late adopters don't have time to evaluate all the options; they ask their early adopter friends what's good.
- Bruce Lewis
Robert is right on as usual. I am cheering for Yahoo (partly because of my investment) but was disappointed to not be able to check out Yahoo's release except for a video. That being said, being a Mac user, that was all I could do w/Latitude as well.
- Craig Mische
how bout simply because it's just Google Notebook added to search as the primary reason? I watched the video, and I wasn't a least bit impressed.
- Duncan Riley
Yahoo is and will go the way of the dinosaur
- Bob Sonin
I agree with Duncan it isn't exactly innovating.
- Nicholas James
Yahoo is making itself being referred to -- more and more -- in the past tense.
- David Feng
FriendFeeders - Streaming the inauguration? Chatting via social network? Please let me know ASAP your tech experiences, good or bad. For an article going up in a few hours.
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viewing the inauguration from Facebook via some CNN plug-in. super fluid. Our comment show up as statuses on our profiles.
- lelapin
watching it on CNN.
- Thomas Hawk
Live on BBC in the UK.
- Rich
Watching it on CNN as well, working very well from Colombia
- Juan Pablo González
CNN.com went down? Ugh!
- Hutch Carpenter
i participated in a discussion and watched a play-by-play at http://gsnap.com/413
- Randy Ksar
I'm refreshing the CNN site at work (Hutch, it's up for me). All the sites streaming the inauguration are buffering like crazy. Besides, I need to get SOME work done! :D
- Helen Sventitsky
watching on hulu. video is out of sync with the audio by a couple of minutes by my measure.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
I'm watching on MSNBC.COM but also have the cnn/facebook page up. http://www.cnn.com/video...
- Phil G
watching on safari in HD http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
CNN.com & Facebook worked very well, and made for a great social experience.
- John LeMasney
the problem with CNN/Facebook is that many schools block it, so it wasn't available to a great number of kids and students.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Thanks guys -- Any more comments now that Obama's speech is over?
- Jennifer Leggio
hulu choked under pressure.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
BBC had very good streaming coverage, twitter stream was too hectic to follow but it seems plenty of people were commenting on Obama's speech.
- Steven Cains
they nearly all failed. Couldn't get on CNN. Hulu was choppy and often out of sync. MSNBC was delayed, Livestation's website kept timing out (I don't have the app on my laptop, so I needed to download it). Overall: lots of fail
- Duncan Riley
Its been good so far. We watched the inauguration on my Macbook Pro at work on CNN.com.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I was watching CSPAN's live stream. They are using Mogulus, which I though was interesting. Did fine up until about 21000 people hit, then it started stuttering. I moved over to my ABC HD feed.
- Lee Adkins
Watching Fox News stream; got a little bit choppy when the swearing-in started, but other than that it was fine
- Andrew Terry
Watched the event downstairs in the largest conference room on a projector.
- Steven Perez
CNN streamed with no comment (thank you)
- triple t
Switched to satellite after CBS online and CNN online crapped out in the beginning here
- Charlie Anzman
Amazing
- Michael Fidler
from twhirl
Watched on TV, but interacting with other viewers through the FF Inauguration room as well as on Twitter http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
- Philip Tomlinson
Everything lagged on me
- andy brudtkuhl
Watched via Hulu from Canada. Ok at first then audio/video badly out of sync. CNN was full until after the main event. Watching the live followup on CNN now.
- Dylan Parker
I watched the entire thing via the NYT live feed on my iMac without a glitch.
- Phil Boiarski
Welcome to the White House - http://www.whitehouse.gov/#
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whitehouse.gov is live.
- felix
from Bookmarklet
So, are they using the same design team as the campaign/change.gov sites? Certainly appears that way. That'd be a cool way to land a job (campaign -> presidency).
- Lee Adkins
Awesome. It has a blog. Say goodbye to traditional thinking that says "no blogs on important websites!"
- Glenn Batuyong
he can not
- mojtaba
Nice. It is clean, valid XHTML 1.0 code (yes I'm a geek) and has RSS feeds. I'm impressed
- Glenn Batuyong
The Obama Inauguration Speech Generator - http://digg.com/politic...
"Let's post some of them. I'll start. Here is the first one it generated for me: My fellow Americans, today is a hopeful day. You have shown the world that "hope" is not just another word for "table", and that "change" is not only something we can believe in again, but something we can actually run. Today we celebrate, but let there be no mistake – America faces sparkly and new challenges like never before. Our economy is flashy. Americans can barely afford their mortgages, let alone have enough money left over for games. Our healthcare system is useless. If your leg is sick and you don't have insurance, you might as well call a wrestler. And America's image overseas is tarnished like a drink cat. But speaking together we can right this ship, and set a course for Applebees. Finally, I must thank my colored family, my stupid campaign volunteers, but most of all, I want to thank Jews for making this historic occasion possible. Of course, I must also thank you, President Bush, for years..."
- Lee Adkins
Sob. I can't use "MyFirstTweet." Error message says simply "too many Tweets."
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blame Scoble :)
- Andrew Smith
hahahahaa.....Awww, thats harsh Scoble...
- Zee.
Awwwww...
- Her Lindsay-ness
Same here.
- Morton Fox
How appropriate. ;-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
You mean you don't have it memorized?
- Jim Hearts FF
LOLz
- rob
Apparently my rate limit exceeded: even on my first try.
- Mark Trapp
hahhaaaaa!!! TOO funny!!! poor Robert can't play with the cool kids ;) *we love you anyway*
- Susan Beebe
Rate limit exceeded. Clients may not make more than 100 requests per hour.
- Kevin Fox
Robert ... oh yeah, and don't click it again...you might break it! :-)
- Susan Beebe
'plyng wth twttr' 12:46 AM Jul 14th, 2006
- Kevin Fox
+1 Susan
- Majento
I heart the Google: http://www.google.com/search...
- Kevin Fox
that's alot of tweets!
- Pierre
Yeah, who needs a service? Found mine: http://twitter.com/itafrom...
- Mark Trapp
My first tweet was Nov. 23, 2007 - too embarrassing.
- Pilgrim Five
Went back and found mine since the service isn't working: "Setting up twitter. Checking the blogs. Etc." on March 29, 2007, 4:22PM
- Lee Adkins
I got 'toomany tweets' too
- Stowe Boyd
Bummer...I'm sure he'll fix it...he mentioned needing to get on Twitter's whitelist for API usage.
- Mark Krynsky
Teehee, Robert - no need to sob. I'm sure your first tweet was just as profound as your 15,000th!! ;)
- Mari Smith
RS's first tweet IS the same as his 15,000th!
- jamesdkirk
poor scoble
- thomasrdotorg
Too many 'first' tweets ? :)
- Nikos Anagnostou
Quality :)
- Joe Dawson
Mine was a very imaginative "Test message", dated 2007-03-18 17:06:47
- Dileepa Prabhakar
I'm sure mind was... oh well, I can care less... probably just said HELLO FIRST TWEET anyway... ;-P
- David Feng
Robert, I'm pretty sure yours was, "Look! I've already got FIVE followers!" ;-)
- Chris Baskind
Another similar and useful service - http://twitter.com/hannive...
- Artemko
@ArtemKo, I started following it.
- Shevonne
Try it now. Most of the West Coast isn't up yet, so you should be able to get on there without issuse.
- Helen Sventitsky
What was explained to me about this is that the API call only lets you go back about 3200 tweets or so. In fact, you can only get back to 160 pages of tweets on the Twitter site in general. In other words, anything past 3200 is a crapshoot. The tweets aren't necessarily lost, but they're not very easily found at all. This was done as a reliability measure, but I hope something is done about this because this is unacceptable in my book.
- Jared Smith
If you have a WordPress blog, install my Tweet Tweet plugin to archive all your tweets, and those of your friends too. http://ocaoimh.ie/tweet-tweet/
- Donncha O Caoimh
can has all-nighter? - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Awful way to start the week.
- Shawn Farner
Yeah, that definitely sucks. But alas, I think I'll be doing the same thing. Mine is because I procrastinate way too much, so now I've got to finish this philosophy paper for tomorrow. Damn Gen-Ed classes.
- Lee Adkins
THATS why I've been having so many problems with my assembly assignment. Instructions based on old 10 year old assembler, instead of VS2005
To elaborate, the instructions have somewhat cryptic commands to enter into the External Tools area that are supposed to magically work. Looking in to it, they are supposed to run the old CodeView debugger from MASM 6.15. Yeah.
- Lee Adkins
Google unveils Chrome source code and Linux port - http://digg.com/linux_u...
"They're digging you down because the source code released is, in fact, the source code for a full Chrome browser. Download the code (if you can get it to not time out because of too much traffic), build it in Visual Studio, and you will get the Chrome browser for Windows. Granted, that doesn't help Linux users, and we are in the Linux/Unix section, but yeah. You are correct, though, that the port to Linux isn't even remotely close to useful yet, and any code released pertaining to a Linux port would not appear to be much of anything other than an engine at this point."
- Lee Adkins
McCain's Voice Mail to Palin Leaked to Press (Listen) - 236 - The Room - http://www.236.com/blog...
Wow. This is hilarious.
- Lee Adkins
Sarah Palin: Dems Pounce On McCain Pick - http://digg.com/2008_us...
"The selection of Biden, while a huge political play, was to add experience in foreign policy to the ticket, something that could prove useful to Obama and the country should he get elected. The selection of Palin was simply an attempt to bring over Clinton supporters and to show that, hey, McCain is up on this "change" thing the kids are raving about. For all the talk McCain had about Obama's lack of experience, naming Palin is definitely not the best choice for him."
- Lee Adkins
Favtape.com/lastfm/leeadkins - http://favtape.com/lastfm...
My FavTape (mixtapes of your Last.FM or Pandora profiles) from my Last.FM. I find that it kicks much ass.
- Lee Adkins
Favtape.com/lastfm/leeadkins - http://favtape.com/lastfm...
My FavTape (mixtapes of your Last.FM or Pandora profiles) from my Last.FM. I find that it kicks much ass.
- Lee Adkins
Why, whenever I'm traveling, do I end up at the same stores I can find in San Francisco? Because I never have TIME to shop when I'm home!
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Do you plan to go in Russia some time?
- Ivan Maslov
No plans, but maybe someday Ivan!
- Veronica
We have this same problem. We can be halfway across the country and the first place my girlfriend wants to go when we get there ends up being a CBL-owned mall, all of which have nearly the exact same stuff as the one we live near.
- Lee Adkins
Ravsonic.TV : Welcome to Ravsonic.TV - http://www.ravsonic.tv/2008...
"We'll try IntenseDebate on this blog to see how it goes. It looks like I might need to modify WicketPixie (or the plugin) a bit to make it integrate a little better, but I'll play with it."
- Lee Adkins
Rumor: Guitar Hero World Tour setlist leaked - Xbox 360 Fanboy - http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008...
Here's hoping this is the real setlist. If it is, I'm definitely buying the new Guitar Hero. I don't think I could have picked a better list. Srsly.
- Lee Adkins
Rumor: Guitar Hero World Tour setlist leaked - Xbox 360 Fanboy - http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008...
Here's hoping this is the real setlist. If it is, I'm definitely buying the new Guitar Hero. I don't think I could have picked a better list. Srsly.
- Lee Adkins
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