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Happy Father's Day. My thoughts are with one father. Here's who and why:
Roshan Ramachandran, Susan Beebe, Mahdi Ebrahimi and 80 other people liked this
My worst nightmare is losing one of my own sons in front of my eyes. Yesterday we saw a father hold his daughter as she died in the most horrific way I could imagine. Those images kept me from sleeping well last night. Neda is her name. Her dad was holding her as she died. He named her Neda, which means "beautiful voice." Yesterday his beautiful voice was silenced. Today he is the father I'm thinking of.
- Robert Scoble
Yes, her eyes looking up at the camera and father repeating "stay with me" strike to the core of life (and death)
- Ronald Barnett
"We make a few simple points about the events transpiring over the past week in Iran. The Iranian regime is an evil tyranny. It supports terrorists and terrorism. The United States has a debt of honor to settle with it for the kidnapping and mistreatment of American hostages thirty years ago. That disgrace is not simply a matter of history. It is a disgrace in which Iran's execrable president personally participated. We remember." -- http://www.powerlineblog.com/archive...
- Craig Eddy
She has become the face of an entire generation in Iran. I can't even imagine being this father. His daughter's face is going to be lots of places he looks and it won't be a pretty smiling face, but the one we all saw on YouTube yesterday. That's not how I'd like to remember my sons, if that ever happened to me.
- Robert Scoble
Craig: I've been thinking about that too. Iran has sacrificed any moral authority it had to tell USA off. Now we see how brutal its government is.
- Robert Scoble
Seeing her [Neda] look directly in the camera for her last breath was more sad & horrifying than seeing all the blood rush out of her seconds later. My heart broke at that moment.
- Michael J. Carrasquillo
Michael: yup. And she, at that moment, became the face of Iran's new generation and -- I believe -- changed the world forever in a way thousands of deaths couldn't. But what a father's sacrifice it took.
- Robert Scoble
Here is a comment by a spectator "At 19:05 June 20th Place: Karekar Ave., at the corner crossing Khosravi St. and Salehi st. A young woman who was standing aside with her father watching the protests was shot by a basij member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house. He had clear shot at the girl and could not miss her. However, he aimed straight her heart. I am a doctor, so I rushed...
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- Amiroo ™
Amiroo: that is another thing that has changed. The fact that so many of us have the ability to tell the world about what we are experiencing and show it to others via video has changed the world in ways we are just starting to understand.
- Robert Scoble
It's a terrible tragedy for any father to witness the death of his own children. May their sacrifices make it all the more less likely that more people have to suffer in the same ways. This shows that no longer can governments hide tyranny with repression of the people. The people will be heard, and their voices will change the world. Yes Robert, this changed the world forever in ways that a war with thousands of deaths could never. This is much more personal, to anyone who sees it.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
She knew the risk she was taking by being on the street, and thus even by 'standing aside' was taking part. “Those who join the battle are all in the front lines”
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
no doubt about it. Now we all can feel the importance of UGC for the future of our world. If we don't have these social movements around you may not even know about the things happening in Iran. (remember CNNFail!?)
- Amiroo ™
Michael: for me as well, it was her eyes looking (or not) that has stayed with me vs. the bloodied image at the end.
- Ronald Barnett
Aaman: all those who go on the streets are brave. My wife's relatives in Iran all say they haven't left their homes since Saturday.
- Robert Scoble
Aaman:There's no battle, there is one sided murder
- Amiroo ™
What stayed with me the most is the father's reaction. That was truly horrifying.
- Leon Freyermuth
Amiroo: There is one sided murder, but that doesn't mean there is no battle. Those people in the streets are battling plenty.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
My father used to say, to be willing to achieve anything, you have to be willing to pay any price.
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Aaman: Your father was right
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob: yes but we hope they don't. The only possible way to win this is by silent resistance (you know like Gandhi). There's isn't any winner when violence steps in.
- Amiroo ™
Amiroo: Neda wasn't violent. She was silent and her "crime" was just being in the streets. That's one reason her image has even more power. If she had been violent her image wouldn't have had as much power.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I need to post your first comment. It is heartbreaking, thoughtful and filled with compassion!
- Myrna
Yeah that's the way to go though such a sad way unfortunately
- Amiroo ™
Happy father's day to you too :)
- FFTornado
Robert is correct, and that is the sort of non-violent protest that starts and completes great movements. I have not seen many images of violent protesters. I have seen an image of protesters caring for a wounder policeman though. This IS the behavior that the likes of Ghandi taught. To engage in true non-violence protest, you must be willing to pay any price.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Amiroo: It is unbelievably sad, but the power that she and her father bring to this struggle, may just be the power that's necessary to avoid any further large scale conflict, either between the people of Iran and their government, or between the US (or Israel) and Iran. We can hope.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob:Hopefully, but the anger that this may generate between people may lead to violent acts and slogans that actually I think the government needs to block them. I really hope people continue that way they did till now
- Amiroo ™
Amiroo: I cannot agree with your statement "I think the government needs to block them" . That is precisely the problem, is the governments around the world trying to dictate what their people can say, do, and watch, and listen to. That is precisely the problem in Iran today. I pray that that image doesn't lead to more violence, but I also understand that at a certain point, there is a necessity to fight fire with fire. Let's pray that the government of Iran can see the light before the violence escalates.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob:If it goes that way it won't be any fight fire with fire it will be punch with fire
- Amiroo ™
Amiroo: Don't underestimate the power of the people, and don't overestimate the loyalty of the military to the government. Often it is the combination of these two factors that make violence all the more unnecessary.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Robert Your powerful comment of Neda's face not being what her father wants to remember recalled for me a recent case right here in the USA of a family that has made desperate efforts to get their daughter's fatal car accident photos off the Internet which were leaked by the police. What is this saying about us and our use of the Internet? It's the same argument that was brought against...
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- Melanie Reed
Melanie: I am a free speech advocate. While I would not like it, I am going to defend it. Her face has become one of the iconic images of this struggle. How much has it changed the world? But yes, free speech is not always fun and games. I have to defend speech that often is objectionable if I am to defend our first amendment.
- Robert Scoble
this moment is the perfect time to remind everyone that the most successful resistance is the kind that allows you to live for another day; to _continue_ the fight. yes, there are times when tragic things happen, but this is _not_ the goal. martyrdom is not success. i know this video will reverberate around the world. i only hope the proper message will accompany it, too.
- MikeAmundsen
Rob:Well the problem is most (if not all) of this violence hasn't made by typical military forces, there are lots of so called Basij forces which are in the same side with the government also I think even if it succeed by fighting violently there would be such a big price to pay
- Amiroo ™
Robert, I am as well. Ironically, I am in the midst of writing a piece on this to expose a particular rhetoric that cuts it off. However, as with all things, there is always a line that protects us from extremes (which are very horrific things) while protecting that freedom of speech we cherish. Any freedoms we have, if not exercised with love, become in themselves a prison to ourselves and to those who are hurt by their corrupt exercise.
- Melanie Reed
Amiroo: Then let's ensure that all our own thoughts are on the side of success without violence. The more people that think about a given outcome (and talk about it, etc) the more likely that is to become the truth.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Would like to second the early comment about Iran's leaderships lost ability to claim moral authority of any kind. Its clear their oppressive government is more than willing to use brutal, thoughtless, violence to keep control. Imagine what they would do to the world with a nuke. They may not have ordered her killing but they built their power on the backs of brutal militias willing to do it and have not called them back.
- James Watters
Good G*d, I didn't know that was her father with her. That is just heartbreaking. :..(
- Laserone
:( Happy father's day to you, and god bless your sons:(
- Mahyaa مهیا
I too would like to add to the heart felt comments left here. Nothing quite brings it home more than seeing that innocent young woman lose her life like that. I only viewed it the once as I felt it was wrong to want to view a second time and felt almost voyeuristic in the worst way imaginable. It was brutal, sad and upsetting. Let us think of her family at this time aside from all the politics.
- Kevin J Hatton
Robert I have been thinking of: Neda, people who want to "be heard", raising awareness to influence change, and the green overlay on our icon... Why don't we do a "Web Neda's day" vs a "minute of silence" by putting all an overlay of Green on our websites for 24 h (a little bit like Google put a different logo once in a while on its home page) . Her name was Neda, you explained it means "beautiful Voice". Robert You are the incredible hulk, I am sure you could be the one turning the web in green for 1 day.
- Harscoat
What are the top 10 apps I should load on the new iPhone 3GS? I started out clean. More here, please tell me what you suggest here:
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I've already loaded Facebook, Google, Evernote, and TweetDeck. Which apps are MUST HAVES. Only suggest apps you actually often use. I filled up my old iPhone with too many apps I never used.
- Robert Scoble
You should definitely get Pandora on there.
- Conway Anderson
Things. Best task manager I've ever used. I use it so often that I moved it to the bar along the bottom.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Kevin: I'm not a big gamer, but would like to try out a couple.
- Robert Scoble
Try the AP mobile news app to try out push notifications.
- George Deane
Robert, you might also consider Blocked. It's a quick-play, no-impact puzzle game.
- Akiva Moskovitz
when will we have a friend feed app, i like camerabag
- Eran Even-Kesef
If you ever come to the UK, the National Rail Enquiries app is awesome. Can't live with out it now.
- Roberto Bonini
I got Tuner so I could listen to Leo on the go. ;) Also just installed HeyWAY, might be interesting for you. Games: How about Star Defense?
- Holger Eilhard
Try Snap2Twitter for tweeting photos - they just updated with geotagging...will compliment the new autofocus feature!
- Tom Parnell
Peggle, without question. Best game on the iPhone.
- Josh Bancroft
Nintaii, Stanza, Evernote, Tweetie/Twitterfon, Banner Free, Flight Control
- Vineet Bhatnagar
Remote - for controlling music through my home stereo system
- joeszabo
I know you upload to Flickr... Try Flickit. You can upload your iPhone 3G S images with ease.
- Jason Hansen
You definitely need the Read It Later app, extremely useful
- Antonio Montero
Check out Numbrosia, an original and addictive number puzzle. (Yes, I developed it.)
- Amir Michail
Instapaper. Great for those times when you don't have any internet. Also, Stanza for ebooks and Shazam to find out what a song you're currently hearing is.
- Leon Freyermuth
Definitely want to see a Friendfeed App
- Keven Elliff
I'd say Tweetie over TweetDeck. TweetDeck is still kind of crashtastic. Still waiting for my iPhone 3G S to be delivered! Analytics app, WordPress app, FlickIt (for sending full res pictures to flickr), Pandora, Kindle for iPhone, Scrabble (connects to Facebook FTW), Evernote, Peggle, Skype, Shazam
- C. K. Sample III
I would think Pandora, but that's just me
- Spirit 2.0
Keven: I second that, although MotherFeed isn't too bad.
- John Fox
BeeJive IM is one I can't live without. Also Skype, Sonic, Flight Control and Last.Fm
- Jono Russell
TweetDeck, Pandora, Dictionary, FStream (I use it to listen to live.twit.tv when I'm away from my computer) and Colloquy (IRC client).
- 321
if you like to be in the photo - check out fototimer - I have used it quite a few times
- Eduardo Merille
BeejiveIM and Stanza/Kindle are my two most used ones you haven't already added.
- Antonio Zahra
You should get Twitterrific, AP Mobile, Flixster, What's On, Pandora, Dictionaire, Instapaper, TWC, Asphalt 4, and Shakespeare.
- Alexander
Evernote, Instapaper, Tweetie, Facebook, Last.fm, RTM, Satchel, Beejive IM and some games or something.
- Brett Kelly
it would be nice if someone took this whole list and did a review of the actual top 10 3.0 apps.
- Amir
Def prefer Twittelator Pro for tweeting. Pano is pretty cool for panoramic photo stitching in-camera. Pandora is a keeper. Free Memory or iStat could be crucial for killing runaway bg processes. HoldEm is the only game I end up returning to. Good advice on overloading. Better to overload with podcasts and tunes!
- Laura Scott (@lauras)
I'll cast more votes for Things and FlickIt - both superb. 1Password is great for digital wallet / password manager purposes, although, like Things no Windows client - you need to be happy with Mac and iPhone. Animoto is a great app for knocking together slide shows really quickly. Autostitch is nice for stitching together several photos for a panoramic effect. If you ever do voice...
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- Patrick Jordan
Pandora, Shazam, Boombox, Flashlight, TWiT.am, LaTwit, craigsphone, Units, Carpenter, & NYTimes -- I also have homescreen bookmarks for Wolfram|Alpha, FriendFeed, Wunderground, & GMail
- Chris Heath
Kevin, there are several already. I've been playing around with amigo lately.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Things, reQall, Weightbot, GroceryGadget, Photogene, iFlashReady, SpeedTest
- Ronald Barnett
Shazam - it listens to a song playing and identifies it for you. Use it surprisingly often when listening to the radio or in a business when music is playing. Very accurate. The majority of apps on my iPhone I never use...
- Steve de Mena
the only one I didn't see mention on this that I use all the time is I.TV
- Kim Landwehr
Cardstar- stores your membership/reward cards that can be scanned right from the iphone screen. I actually use this often.
- Ryan Erickson
TweetDeck for the iPhone is NOT the best tweeting application. It uses up too much API, although I would still have it on my iPhone just to look at every now and then. Twitterrific is definitely the 5-star app ever since it realized its 2.0 version. TweetDeck is only a 3.5 to 4 star app in my mind.
- Alexander
That vibrator one that was posted on FF yesterday somewhere.
- Steve C
1Password. I can't live without it on my Mac and my iPhone. Tweetie, Pandora, Fieldrunners (still love this game), GV Mobile for Google Voice. Many more above are great as well.
- Kelly Sims
SportsTap. I'm not a huge sports fan, but the ability to set favorite teams and get real time updates is great. Hopefully they'll put out a new version for 3.0 with push notifications.
- Carlton Prest
BuddyFeed, Tweetie, Skype, AccuWeather, AirSharing
- Susan Beebe
Top 10 iPhones apps IMHO are: Twitterific or TweetDeck, Facebook, The Weather Channel, Evernote, AP Mobile - links to Twitter, FB & Evernote, Air Video & Off, Midomi I like over Shazam, Stanza - books & RSS feeds,
- Robin Birkel
Photogene -- very cool photo editing application
- RobinDotNet
Here's one that is a must for you: PangeaVR: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Orli Yakuel
i.TV for sure :)
- Justin Whittaker
Try out Gokivo - the first TBT navigation app for the iPhone. We are excited to finally be able to launch our app on the iPhone.
- Mark Goddard
from BuddyFeed
I think I might have too much time - here is a count of the apps mentioned so far:Pandora 9 Evernote 7 TweetDeck 6 Stanza 4 Tweetie 4 Shazam 4 Facebook 4 BeeJive IM 3 Skype 3 Flickit 3 Things 3 Flight Control 3 Instapaper 3 Kindle 3 NYTimes 2 Peggle 2 AP Mobile 2 I.TV 2 Photogene 2 Twitterific 2 1Password 2 Last.fm 2 TWiT.am 1 Shakespeare 1 Peggle 1 AirSharing 1 Star Defense 1 Eye-Fi 1...
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- Ryan Barnett
TWC is The Weather Channel, so there have actually been 2 TWC recommendations
- Alexander
New to iphone but was a Touch user for a long time - I have many of these apps already - some new ones to check out now also. I just restored from my ipod Touch backup and all my existing apps came over. They seem to be working OK. Question - is it possible to rename my iphone as it now says it is my ipod Touch?
- Tony Vota
Yes, you just right-click on the name of the iPod on the right-hand side in iTunes and select rename.
- Leon Freyermuth
Trailguru, Sportacular, Livestrong, Foursquare all make my front page
- Ryan Barnett
SnapTell, 9-toolbox, Flixster
- Chad McCoskey
@leonf - Got it. Thanks. It was actually a double left click to select and rename.
- Tony Vota
I'd swear by Remember The Milk as a task manager. Outside the built in apps, this is my most reliable and useful app, and there's an imminent update that I'm hoping will include push notifications. Other than that, my most oft used are Beejive IM, Kindle, Byline (for Google Reader syncing), Strands, Facebook and TweetDeck. And I'm posting this through a new FriendFeed app: AlertThingy which seems pretty awesome.
- Owen
from Alert Thingy
Must have for me is : Camera bag(Must have), Facebook, Tweetie and/or Tweetdeck(Not too stable), BeeJive IM, Shazam, Evernote, Airsharing, Urbanspoon, Remote for Keynote, Google Reader Web and GTalk Web.
- shadow
Must try HeyWAY... Cool app
- Mike Diaz
Oh yeah, and Documents to Go (Exchange edition) is proving very useful, just needs xls editing and MobileMe iDisk access.
- Owen
from Alert Thingy
@techsavvyguru - No problem. I just thought the right-click and select rename method was easier to explain. That does work, doesn't it? I haven't tried it in awhile.
- Leon Freyermuth
Great question, tons of valuable answers here.. very nice :)
- Susan Beebe
Evernote, tweetie, facebook, motherfeed, camerabag and camerakit
- Thomas Chai
RssPlayer is my most used app.
- Christian Burns
Why Jared, of course!
- Daniel Krech
another vote for Weather Channel and the radar videos. Also Bloomberg for stocks and Checkbook for jotting down expenses to be entered into Quicken later.
- Sarah Miller
Agree you need to add Skype, BeeJive, and Pandora. I also like Todo and NYTimes. Just getting my head wrapped around TweetDeck for iPhone; been using Tweetie up to now.
- Scotty Perkins
I'm setting mine up right now. I can't believe how well it works here! Thanks for asking this question here. This is my first iPhone, so I need all the advice I can get. I love this phone!
- Michael Fidler
iFart, iBeer and the iphone star wars sword. The most popular iphone apps.
- Charbax
I can't believe no one mentioned Yelp. I use it all the time, especially here in the bay area where you live.
- Sam Pullara
surprised no one mentioned truphone - skype and push notification support
- Riaz Kanani
'Things' is a daily go-to workhorse of an application, One of the best values in the app store.
- Dean Kakridas
Remember the Milk, Bloomberg, Evernote, PCalc, Amazon, the Wearher Channel
- Robert Hafer
appsniper
- Jay Clark
I know this is lame: but I am addicted to the "Blowfish" game we downloaded for our kids. Trust me - it's very addicting. Weather Channel best weather app IMHO. Shazam. BuddyFeed. LinkedIn. Skype.
- Curt Mercadante
Reisertris!
- Raphael, Raphael
More votes for Photogene, Bloomberg and Weather Channel. ShoZu. USA Today. Is Urban Spoon a must? Not sure, but it came in handy when I was traveling.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Instapaper
- Steve Rubel
Evernote, Red Delicious,Skype, Google Voice Search, FaceBook,Yelp, BrightKite, Domain Tool, iSSH, and FTPOnTheGo are a few good ones to start with.
- Mike Elliott
FLASHLIGHT
- Rochelle
Get the "What Apps Should I Download" app...LOL
- Acoustic Randall
I would but I ask you about a month ago in email what camera should I take on my bike you never answered back. But here are some ideas good mapping gps, google search, evernote. Now how about a camera pick please.
- Darren Lowery
thirsty pocket, Tweetdeck, phoneflix, shazm,skype,facebook,google mobile,mint,yelp and iwant
- Sai
Kindle, Shazam, trade Tweetdeck for Tweetie, FB, PageOnce for your bank accounts, Evernote, Google, and Wordpress. What's amazing about your list is that there's a lot of overlap among all the omments above considering how many iPhone apps exist. Very Few rise above the noise.
- Francine Hardaway
You need BeejiveIM and TweetDeck, that is all.
- David Ford
WeatherBug Elite, BBCReader, NYTimes, WSJ, Bloomberg
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
Nambu for all things Twitter. Password. Google. Conversion. Linked In. NetNewsWire. iFirstAid. Flashlight. Wordpress. Currency. Dictionary. Level. A good, local weather application.
- Greg Smith @ PR Lab
See here: http://www.flickr.com/photos... First Page: Yahoo, Google, NYT, Bloomberg, WSJ, Thomson Reuters News Pro, HuffPost, AP, and Yelp. Second Page (Not shown): Black and White (aka Go), Smugmug, Weather Channel, and Fandango. Have tried and removed: Evernote, Shazam, Amazon Mobile, Kindle, Shakespeare, TapTap (1 & 2), Skype, TNF Snow Report (will probably reinstall in winter), pTerm, Units, Wurdle, Public Radio Tuner, Starmap, Super Monkey Ball, and Morocco
- Steve Wilhelm
iSnort http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- A.T.
For the Twitter power user, Twittelator Pro 3.0
- Louis Trapani
Smugshot
- Tony Fluharty
BuddyFeed is the best FriendFeed app I've found, and I'd go for either Twitterific or Tweetie over TweetDeck. Instapaper is vital, and either OmniFocus or Things depending on which you prefer on the desktop. If you're not a desktop app person for to dos, then RememberTheMilk is great.
- Ian Betteridge
compass, skype, bubbles, Google Earth & document viewer.
- Robert MacEwan
One more is Byline, which just got a nice upgrade and syncs with Google Reader.
- Steve Rubel
For video uploads direct from the 3G S to over 40 services you should give the new Pixelpipe 1.4.1 version a shot. Details at http://tr.im/p7vT
- Brett Butterfield
I like BuddyFeed, LinkedIn,PocketGod, Tap Tap, Shozu,Worpress, and Tumblr
- Chris Sparno
LOL. Now you're going to have a ton of Apps you never use!
- Dane Deasy
I like the one that puts mullet hair cuts on friends head shots.
- Christine Taylor
Robert - have you tried ALL of the above suggestions yet? If so, please report back with findings. :)
- Patrick Jordan
Waiting for push notification support for IM apps.
- ashish
Robert - For news headlines with awesome photography - Thomson Reuters New Pro. Great for catching up whilst on the move. Keyword customisable.
- Tom Ablewhite
get pandorabox best app
- Blake Mathews
Public Radio, Pandora,Classics, Twitteriffic... tho I honestly haven't checked out any other Twitter Apps.
- Orville Chomer
Thanks for great list of recommendations. :)
- Daniel Schildt
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