Seems interesting but what am I entering my FF credentials into Steve? Not going to enter them into something I have heard nothing about..
- Bill Heslin
also, steve... the css isn't fluid and looks like this to me (chrome 3 on windows xp) http://img39.imageshack.us/img39... - also i think the silverlight was bogging down my old P4 system
- Chris Heath
Mine looks like Chris' in Chrome on Vista, but I haven't been able to load the newest Silverlight in Chrome (unless it carried over from my install of it in IE8 last night).
- Robert G. Male
Firefox is probably a better bet on Vista.
- Cliff Gerrish
I have double sidebars when I view it from beta.newsgang.net
- Karoli
Karoli...take off the beer goggles...LOL...Hiya!
- Bill Heslin
Yeah, usually NGL itself isn't the focus of NGL. You get a little video feedback when that happens.
- Cliff Gerrish
Silverlight doesn't work on Safari running on Windows = Fail!
- Michael Pinto
Yes, it does. I tested that earlier today.
- Cliff Gerrish
Requirements: Silverlight, FriendFeed, $5 pay-per-view next?
- James Robertson
Silverlight and Flash will never run as well as HTML5 on constrained mobile devices. If they run as stand-alone apps then they will have to compete with the functionality of browsers. If they run within browsers they suck up additional memory and processor cycles and play poorly. Developers are not going to invest in optimizing their Flash/Silverlight apps to run on both the desktop and on mobile devices with a variety of screen resolutions, etc. Give up on this fantasy Steve.
- scott anderson
Adam Bosworth told me a long time ago that Moore's Law trumps these issues, as it did with RSS's supposed verbosity and everything else XMLish since. Hybrid browser/rich apps will continue to win while moving the market closer to so called HTML 5ish standards. I'd give up on the rhetoric Scott if I were you.
- Steve Gillmor
HTML 5, Silverlight, Flash, Pen and Paper. No one cares if something is good and useful. They'll dowload the plugin or fill the inkwells if that's what they need to do.
- Matt Terenzio
in the past (it seems to me) enterprise seems to drive software while hardware has been driven by gamers/gaming ... 1) what do you think about that? 2) what about going forward? 3) and what about mobile, will it drive anything - or is it creating a class of it's own? (app store markets?)
- Chris Heath
You can call it rhetoric if you like but if it costs more for consumers to purchase mobile phones that run technologies like Flash and Silverlight that consume more memory, processor cycles, battery life, etc. and it costs developers more resources to build these "rich" experiences and make them compatible then it won't happen. The benefits do not outweigh the costs.
- scott anderson
phones are razors and history (iPhone) shows this does in fact happen. Flash is not off the iPhone for technical reasons but economics, and Gphone is about to make that irrelevant.
- Steve Gillmor
is gPhone making Flash, the iPhone, or the economics irrelevant?
- Chris Heath
flash is silverlight is HTML 5 eventually. Gphone allows Flash and other plugins. Moonlight decompiling strategy closes loop to iPhone
- Steve Gillmor
What are the benefits that Flash and Silverlight add to the user experience that cannot be duplicated in HTML5, especially when the nature of UI on mobile devices lends itself to simplicity?
- scott anderson
if you see no benefits, then why pitch your theory. It's like the Republicans reading the bill out to slow down reality
- Steve Gillmor
I pitch my theories so that they can be debunked by others. I am a mobile app developer with limited resources and want to be smart in my investments in tools and infrastructure.
- scott anderson
well, then you should talk to .Net devs and see if they meet your needs. Sounds like you are happy in HTML5 land.
- Steve Gillmor
Why hasn't Flash taken over web pages designed for desktop browsers and why hasn't Adobe Air been successful on the desktop? If they cannot succeed on the desktop then I have no hope for these technologies succeeding on mobile phones. I'm not talking about video players but applications written in Flash or Silverlight. I would not need .Net to simply support playing video. I am happy in GWT land and see more robust apps being possible with SVG + WebGL + Javascript along with the media tags in HTML5.
- scott anderson
Just an FYI: remote keys are a poor user experience. OAuth is preferred. And when you use OAuth limits are applied to the user instead of the IP address making the call, making it easier to grow your application (assuming you call the API from your server). Read more here: http://friendfeed.com/api...
- Benjamin Golub
yes benjamin we are moving to Oauth before we come out of beta. And can you fill us in on what's going on last 24 hours with Twitter feed.
- Steve Gillmor
Scott Flash is dominant on browsers for video. Air sucks but it provides experiences SIlverlight improves on. ask Seesmic why they've ported to WIndows and then to SIlverlight.
- Steve Gillmor
You're assuming that Seesmic is making intelligent development decisions by investing in Windows and Silverlight. That remains to be seen.
- scott anderson
no I am assuming a rationale for assigning resources that makes sense with what I think is going on. How it impacts on individual developers has more to do with their products and the full range of technologies they support. They also produced an Android version before iPhone. Unlike you, they support both models.
- Steve Gillmor
Leveraging Flash or Silverlight for simply playing videos is overkill. The video decoder royalty issues will be worked out. I can see Google donating the assets they recently got from their acquisition of On2.
- scott anderson
Steve: what do you mean by "what's going on last 24 hours with Twitter feed"? We had a small hiccup with the crawl (not Twitter specific, the entire crawl) but things should be moving again.
- Benjamin Golub
ben the twitter feed resumed about an hour ago and has been adding items from both yesterday and up to an hour ago. It was dead as a doornail last night. And I assume the firehose issues remain unresolved by the delta between timestamps even now
- Steve Gillmor
scott: we'll see. meantime there are plenty of reasons why SIlverlight is a big deal, and worth some people's time.
- Steve Gillmor
I am developing an application framework for Android that leverages web panes within native apps. I use native infrastructure where it makes sense and web standards for the content related pieces.
- scott anderson
yeah I get it, but this is a back and forth without meaningful progress. let's move on
- Steve Gillmor
Silverlight and Flash do have one potentially critical advantage over HTML5 ... DRM. In my opinion publishers should have a mechanism to protect their content from piracy. If Jobs succeeds in blocking both Flash and Silverlight runtimes from the iPhone, it will be interesting to see what kind of DRM solution Apple establishes with their new video streaming technology and how tightly...
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- scott anderson
This is interesting. Will it work with moonligjt on linux?
- Alfred C. Ingram
I am beginning to finally get it... If you post on Friendfeed you get comments... If you post on Twitter, you get followers. If you are marketing something (e.g. your blog/brand, your product/service) getting followers is much better than getting comments.
You need to than unfollow those users...:)) Twitter is a lot more about broadcasting and getting followers is like a drug.. the more you broadcast the more followers you get :)
- Bindu Reddy
Getting followers doesn't really mean anything: 390 of the 400 followers I have on Twitter never act or do anything with what I say on it. Getting them to convert is the meaningful part of the marketing proposition, and conversations, I've found, are far more effective at that.
- Mark Trapp
So, what's the FAQ for interaction on Twitter? I had a post that got 100+ comments the other day here on Friendfeed but no response on Twitter. I must be doing something wrong over there.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
twitter seems to be great for people who are lazy and not really savvy about marketing. it's sort of like shouting into the void, and you might get a few people to respond, but do you really get people to act?
- Bren -- feeling merry
@Mark, I agree with you.. However to a lot of people having a follower number like 10K/20K, which seems like a relatively easily thing to do on Twitter, is not only just a high but it is also a good way to keep in touch with your audience without spending too much time... Here keeping in touch with your audience is way more time consuming
- Bindu Reddy
Bindu, but keeping in touch doesn't mean anything if they're not listening. You can have a million followers, but if you're not getting any of them to act on what you're saying, it doesn't mean much. Getting conversations going with people, who may or may not be followers, which Twitter is pretty bad at, are more effective at getting people to convert. I just had a relatively popular...
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- Mark Trapp
Bindu, I'm following you (FF) and I just commented too :)
- Micah Wittman
@Mark, Curious how did you get them to go to your website?
- Bindu Reddy
Bindu, if I knew that I'd have it made. Near as I can tell, people were doing Twitter and Google searches for "twitter list," and then started retweeting it and sharing it from there.
- Mark Trapp
Following is such a low-risk endeavor that people don't put thought into it: they'll follow anyone and everyone. You even have people thinking it's common decency to automatically follow people if they follow you without even thinking about if their content is interesting. Following is the 21st century equivalent of receiving a phone book or the yellow pages: you do it just in case you need to contact or get ahold of someone in the future, but nobody ever realistically does.
- Mark Trapp
Yep, it's like collecting business cards that get neatly filed into a big binder. It's about the self-satisfaction of the collection - you feel more connected / networked / important and avoid doing the hard work of cold calling or meeting with people and building something or whatever.
- Micah Wittman
I agree with following being a low-risk effort... However I have also heard of ppl gaining value from Twitter without much effort. Take for example this coffeshop I am a big fan of - sightglass coffee. They get a lot of customers from Twitter. It takes them relatively little time to tweet and they get customers. It would be very hard to achieve the same on FF.
- Bindu Reddy
Bindu, I get lots of conversation on Twitter, too. One of the reasons I am there more than here is because people with common interest in my political obsessions are there, but not here.
- Karoli
Karoli - Yes, the Twitterverse is way more diverse than the FFverse. Curious do you get more comments/conversations per post on Twitter as compared to FF or is it that you you post more stuff because time spent per post is lower on Twitter
- Bindu Reddy
Bindu, I get very little response to political conversations/comments on FF - a couple of folks follow here but a very small percentage compared to twitter. I tried to pull people over here, but they didn't understand why they should leave tweetdeck and their twitter setup for new territory.
- Karoli
Geeks (+ early adopters, influential folks, the elite ...) are on FriendFeed and the proletariat on Twitter? Long live the dictatorship of the proletariat? Calls for action work best when the audience actually cares, so prolly that's all about choosing the right medium for the targeted punters?
- Sebastian
Sebastian... yes agree the geeks and tech bloggers are on FF... However if you are marketing say a fashion or beauty blog. You won't get much interest here. twitter is the place for you :)
- Bindu Reddy
I disagree with that statement, Bindu. There's a LOT of non-tech getting traction on FriendFeed. So much so that it's the number one reason Scoble no longer enjoys being here: he says he doesn't see enough tech for his liking.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Just butting in here to mention that there are tons of uses for both twitter and friendfeed that have nothing whatsoever to do with marketing. In fact, once could make the argument that social networks such as these were designed to get away from marketing. Unlike radio, TV, or even a web search, you choose who you'll be receiving information from. If you're looking to exchange...
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- Mr. Gunn
Bindu, what I'm sick of is marketers broadcasting their sales pitches to all social media outlets out there, regardless whether the audience might fit or not. Anyways, i'ts possible to attract a few somewhat intelligent responses to geeky topics at Twitter, at least when xmas and independence day share the same date. Most probably I wouldn't try to sell wonder bras at FF, though.
- Sebastian
@Tina ... umm I have not been an avid user of FF lately so maybe it has become pretty diverse. Are you saying there are a lot of people on here with specific interests such as politics, beauty etc?
- Bindu Reddy
Bindu: Ning is a better place to go if you have very specific topics you want to talk about. They are growing a FriendFeed every 12 days (they are getting a million new users that often and have just passed 38 million registered). FriendFeed is fun if you aren't sure what you want to chat about and you're cool with seeing lots of family pictures and goofy stuff. Tina is right that the hard-core geeks are mostly on Twitter or Facebook now, I keep watching here, though.
- Robert Scoble
Karoli I get all kinds of action here on political topics. I have more followers on Twitter but rarely get a response there. Here I got 80+ comments yesterday.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from iPod
MVB, Karoli is a prolific voice on twitter. Twitter seems quite effective for political advocacy/activism even though longer form convos have to break out somewhere else. Also, just like friendfeed, volume / steady presence can make all the difference. Your tweet count is ~2K; Karoli's over 63K.
- Micah Wittman
My presence here is similar to Kaoli's on Twitter, then. So, presence is a mitigating factor. But, Micah, as you so deftly point out, for a long conversation there needs to be a move to another venue. That's where here works better, since it can stay right here.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from iPod
We agree, and can agreed at length right here, folks :)
- Micah Wittman
So link your twitter to your friendfeed. Get followers and comments. The best of both worlds.
- Hareesh Nagarajan
Does it make any difference here whether the original post was to Twitter and reposted here automatically or the original post was directly here? In other words, does the FF community prefer to comment on direct posts rather than Twitter reposts?
- Jimmy Walker
Jimmy: it honestly depends on who you interact with on FriendFeed. There are people who get irate about people only posting to Twitter and openly advocate using FriendFeed directly, and yet, there are interesting people who always get a conversation going around their tweets. One thing that sometimes helps is coming back to FriendFeed and elaborating on your tweet, or to do more than...
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- Mark Trapp
Mark, that sounds like good advice. Thanks.
- Jimmy Walker
B.Reddy is right.I complately agree with her.A good view,and a good advice for us.Thank you Bindu...
- Dedegi
Following only happens after several good comments. Consistency is the key.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
Jeremy, I am not sure... Someone body or the other seems to come and follow you based on pretty much anything you twitter. Of course most of these ppl prob. do that expecting a follow back?
- Bindu Reddy
Bindu: As you had said earlier, most of the followers at twitter don't read what you are tweeting. So it is actually better to get comments as you know those who comment read whatever you post.
- Amit
Amit, I completely agree with you about the comments and how no one reads your tweets. As an example I posted a tweet about "anchors" On FF there are 7 likes and 14 comments.. None on twitter. However at the end of the day for every 20 new followers I get 1-2 new friends. On FF much less of that happens. So from a marketing point of view Twitter is better.
- Bindu Reddy
Bindu, how many people are subbed to you on FF and on Twitter? What are the total number of subs to each? What is the ratio of your subs to the total subs of each? I bet a crisp dollar bill that you are subbed to a higher percentage of subs on FF than on Twitter.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from fftogo
MVB interesting point of subs. # of subs on Twitter and FF are about the same but the quality of subs is much better on FF. As far as ration goes... yes FF is much better than Twitter and that does have an impact. However I am going to contend that even for people who have many more subs on Twitter (e.g. scoble?) there is much more engagement on FF than twitter. he probably adds more followers though on twitter
- Bindu Reddy
Bindu, exactly. Unlike you, I, and most others, are not here to market a product or service so we see a different function of Social Media.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from iPod
Social Media 101: It's a two-way street - relationships are formed via interactions, not uni-directional broadcast. :)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
This, btw, is true for all forms of marketing / business function - consider a customer support hotline that never get answered by anyone but just sits there as a 1-800 number.
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
I'd like to think getting sales is even better than followers, come to think of it, getting leads are better than followers too. Followers are overrated.
- Justin Hitt
We live in a world full of statistics. We’re always measuring ourselves against our competitors and most of the time success is tied with performance and relative positions. Unfortunately the web is a place where everything is measurable. Every click, visit, pageview, source can be added, combined and reported. But even though we might know very well what users are doing on our site, comparing ourselves with others is where things get tricky.
- Jorge Escobar
from Bookmarklet
Next step: PersonRank ? It is already all bout people we trust, i.e. follow, friend, include in fine tuned realtime data streams.
- Mindaugas Dagys
That's very true Mindaugas. It is the next frontier. There was a Techcrunch50 startup that was about personal authority. Anyone remember the name? It was from the creators of Popego.
- Jorge Escobar
"The good news is that we don't have to build the updates ourselves. Our role is to not say something is "easy", but instead to consider what's possible. Smarter folks who know this stuff cold can work to bridge the gap. Your suggestions are also very good."
- Louis Gray
"Hi @Ankush: Replies: Certainly those of us who understand the social and technical constraints related to managed identity care deeply about these issues. But how do we convey the importance of a lack of digital freedom to average users? It seems oddly similar to Richard Stallman’s efforts evangelizing free and open source software. I think stories work well. In my talk, I focused on a personal experience, which I’m sure will become increasingly common. I also think that many people won’t relate to this idea at all — and that’s okay. What’s important is that there is a clear, actionable message that explains how to support this idea and why it’s actually a good idea for the web and the network in general. It may not be completely obvious yet, but I think the picture is starting to emerge as various services end up shutting down or being acquired. Facebook’s incentive to adopt OpenID is tenuous at best. They are 300M users strong and have enormous data capital. Why would they want to..."
- Chris Messina
with you Jesse this is LG's best. When is he going to write a book do you think? I want to read LG on the planes. I've seen all the movies. I've read all the papers. I want stuff like Parallel Internet in book form.
- Thomas Power
Starting to feel a little jealous after Thomas's post ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Hey Jesse why you jealous? cos' I've seen all the movies ...what can I say that's iTunes for you
- Thomas Power
Live now: This Week In Google 10 with Gina Trapani, Jeff Jarvis, Kevin Marks, and Marshall Kirkpatrick on Google Wave. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here...
I haven't heard a single positive thing about Wave yet. Still want to try it for myself, but it's interesting that there's so little positive buzz.
- Jeff Harbert
I can't wait to use GW. Still waiting for my invite to show up in my inbox.
- Danny Minick
How can I get on one o' dem monitors someday... do I gotta be famous enough than i already r?
- Danny Minick
From what I have read (no invite yet) if I can run this on my own server for my 5 team members at work, THIS is the solution I have been looking for.
- Johnny Worthington
Also, Scoble missed the point. It's not social media or a broadcast medium. 100,000 would never be manageble team in any situation. Wave has power in small numbers. This beta is a free-for-all.
- Johnny Worthington
How do you get to the real time 'chat room' style view for the TWIG friend feed? No wonder this site hasn't taken off, the learning curve is unbelievable
- Matt
Just had a problem with Wave: I opened a window to ping Leo asking to join the TWig Wave, but I decided not to bother him. Unfortunately, as I saw on the live video, it already had -- he saw a flashing ping window before I even started typing! (I decided to type out a message at that point, seeing as it had already appeared on his screen.)
- Eric Geller
Can you run your own Wave server? wave.google.com isn't the only place this will exist
- Johnny Worthington
LOL, I'm still just trying to join Google Wave. Dang invite still isn't here yet.
- Danny Minick
I'm pretty sure I'm scobleizer@googlewave.com
- Robert Scoble
If I can run my own instance, and control l those who go into it. NO SPAM.
- Johnny Worthington
I think you guys are missing the point. Wave is not a replacement for email it's a new solution to an old problem - how do I communicate efficiently with people around the world?
- Jan Cifra
Google must be doing something right to get their own segment on TWiT network. LOL
- Danny Minick
Gina speaks so fast my brain can't keep up ><
- ralphsaunders
Seems to me like we're thinking of Wave in terms of every other open social media app out there. Like here in FriendFeed, or Twitter, or even email.
- Jeff Harbert
Doesn't wave cover the email paradigm well? Especially if you consider the federation/protocol part?
- Jan Cifra
Big 3: Google, Microsoft, Apple, not maybe in that order. So deserves its TWIT show
- Mark
Leo, can you talk about running your own Wave server. That would solve a lot of the issues with noise and unwanted people
- Johnny Worthington
stil waiting for my wave invite, wish i knew what was being talked about here
- Tate DA FF MVP
What about a This Week in Bing. TWiB. Haha.
- Danny Minick
Now I really understand why FriendFeed didn't add multi-level threading.
- Robert Scoble
Mark, thats what the Gilmour Gang was
- ralphsaunders
Danny, as Mark pointed out and Leo has stated... Apple and MS are both essentially platforms or ecosystems, as is Google... so it makes sense and just as in his other shows, the content isn't alwayslimited to google
- Gabe
Unlike Twitter you have to have other people who are already engaged to use Wave, so it will start as a business / org app
- Matt
the smartest people in the world are on the TWiT network ;)
- Mark
A good use for Wave would be for the TWiT shows. You can pause the live stream and it will buffer from where you left off but the Friendfeed room moves on so you are behind the chat and have no idea what is being talked about. Could make a wave client for TWiT shows so you can "playback" what you missed in synch with the video stream.
- Mark
Btw can you sort Waves based on contacts? The "Inbox" UI seems very confusing if you consider you could have hundreds of contacts - it could get messy.
- Jan Cifra
Hisham: If you have ever seen a successful wiki implementation, at work for example, the knowledge capture is amazing. I can see Wave taking this to the next level - especially the real time component.
- Marshall Huwe
I have Google Voice. So I hope I get Google Wave too as well.
- Danny Minick
This sounds like all colleges would replace its whiteboards with this, what will it cost, if any??
- Rick
Now THAT gave us a taste of what will be cool about Google Wave. But they never should have pitched it as a "new email."
- Robert Scoble
At university we have used wave to take notes at lectures, and by using it we can share thoughts of it and sound files from the lecture feks
- Devlin
It would be more interesting if voice dialog transcribed into conference - who said what
- notagolfer
Gabe, probably the same time it takes the transcription currently.
- Jeff Harbert
Wave *MIGHT* be an excellent tool for education. Unfortunately, I don't have access to it. Hope that Google will give all their Google Apps for Edu accounts access to it right away.
- Rom Feria
Anyone need an invite? I'll give out 3 of mine. Warning, it seems to take a while (days) for them to go out.
- invariant - farewell FF
Kevin is the smartest guy on the GG and now on TWiG
- Mark
Jeff, I meant before google integrates it into wave... unless it already is?
- Gabe
"Remember how they used the word 'wave' in Firefly? I wonder if that's where the Wave team got the name." That would be pretty funny, Jeff Harbert.
- Matt Cutts
Gabe, dunno if it's currently integrated or not.
- Jeff Harbert
@Hisham: do you have patients? do you do research? do you have staff? do you have peers? Don't know your situation obviously, but I can see lots of opportunity for knowledge capture, realtime collaboration, etc.
- Marshall Huwe
Ok, Simon Wicks, notagolfer, Rick and +1 for Jeff Harbert: I'll follow you, DM me an email address to use.
- invariant - farewell FF
Ribbit gadget it's really useful, imagine if TWiG can be segmented in episodes and each segment is a threaded wave, it will be easier for people that were not able to follow it in realtime, catch-up with the content/comments generated
- Alberto Saavedra
hi @mattcutts, you should invite @jewelstaithe to Wave...
- Kevin Marks
Thats an interesting Q's, how will Google integrate this into all its other Apps
- Rick
is scoble the only one not excited about Wave ?
- Mark
Here is why it will replace email. I send back and forth 6 emails about a subject to a person on my team. hen we have to bring someone else in on the conversation. They then have 12 emails to read before they catch up.
- Johnny Worthington
Mark: Re: Kevin Marks...And he's a really cool, laid back, and approachable in person.
- James Williams
Mark: no, I've gotten hundreds of replies from people who don't get it either.
- Robert Scoble
why is "Leo Laporte Makes $1" a trending topic on twitter???????????????
- Mark
@ribbit could add transcription of the calls into the wave, but there is a lag to do it
- Kevin Marks
Mark: see Mashable. Leo gave a talk at the Online News Association earlier today where he announced that his revenues are more than a million a year.
- Robert Scoble
re: ribbit gadget transcription: And it doesn't like some British accents ;)
- James Williams
Wow over $1million profit in a year after paying his staff!
- Mark
Jeff: Not much I think. It'll be just another place to check. But that could change if Android/iPhone gets a native client with a slick interface.
- James Williams
Not profit, Mark. Leo's statement was $350 K in costs and $1.5 mil in revenue.
- Debi Jones
when is Google Wave coming invites Gmail users ?
- Michael Holzinger
the more money Leo makes the more likely we will have a new studio for TWiT Live soon with 480p stream and downloadable videos and more camera angles and new shows
- Mark
Quentin: same here. 3 nominations incoming, no sign from Google...
- Holger Eilhard
Johnny: Let's figure out the user exp first before they make it mainstream. Wave doesn't fit their model where they choose to broadcast but not engage.
- James Williams
James: Additionally it creates a hype... It's all like Gmail again :)
- Holger Eilhard
Usually if I miss a show, I keep watching live.twit.tv, I like serendipity of it :)
- notagolfer
How about live streaming in a Wave? That could revolutionize TWiT.
- Jeff Harbert
but I bet within a year or two TWiT live has 480p streaming and downloads
- Mark
But if I run my own server... Can't I control who joins?
- Johnny Worthington
Jeff: I would think so, I've seen group viewing in a wave (start/stop/ff/rewind of videos was synchronized and allowed video comments)
- James Williams
Does having more monitors really improve your productivity?
- tytycoon
Mark: It's the sweet spot for pricing. Quite a bit less $$$ than 24".
- Jeff Harbert
Oh Leo was your father on radio in Providence?
- Andrew Euell
I'm loving how Jeff Jarvis is thinking about the X PRIZE model for collaborative innovation. Here's his post on the subject he just discussed http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009... We're really trying to get that thought process out there.
- Mark Krynsky
When im coding at work, multiple monitors are awesome !!!
- Kashif Khan
Kevin is right. I'm excited about having my news curated by my social graph. Here's a service that is providing that info based on links created by who I follow on Twitter http://www.twittertim.es/krynsky
- Mark Krynsky
yeah that "Old Pakistan" comment didnt compute here either
- Kashif Khan
I find that by the end of this show I always have a million links open from both the chat and the show. What do you folks use to organize these things? Read it later? http://www.ideashower.com/ideas...
- tytycoon
Oh gosh, Dvorak was right about Bing, Yahoo and Google... :)
- Holger Eilhard
Leo, have you ever tried to Skype with someone who is in China for the live stream? Wonder if there would be any network issues doing a stream from China.
- Debi Jones
Tease: Today on TWiG: wave wave and nothing but wave. Marshal Kirkpatrick, Kevin Marks, join our rgulars Gina Trapani and Jeff Jarvis to take a look at Google Wave. Everything's shiny captain, This Week In Google is coming up next
- Leo Laporte
No wonder you have so many hats in your studio. You had to wear them all!
- shelter watch
Watched your ONA speech, it was excellent. Makes me wonder why you're not on more tech conference speaker rosters?
- Debi Jones
That is pretty epic data transfers with the flash drives. Did you ever have any problems with backing up? have you ever lost a show?
- tytycoon
Josh and I use dropbox and we take turns each week to edit. Juggling time for that with family and work is tough
- Johnny Worthington
I think Fibre Chanel for just a few stations is VERY over rated. ISCSI or NFS is quite enough if properly designed, and a fraction of the cost.
- kevin
I love dropbox. I use it for everything
- tytycoon
Leo, I was wondering if you should have single 'After Hours' post on twit-conversations so we don't fill show threads with off-topic chat
- Johnny Worthington
I thought you were moving to a storefront?
- shelter watch
This cottage looks so much nicer than what I imagine a storefront would be
- tytycoon
That's a lovely, historic location that you are in now. I love architecture history.
- shelter watch
I quess $30 is nit bad if you can actually use this to be productive. Thanks tytycoon
- Johann Diaz
from Nambu
Finally getting a chance to listen to this... Just to clarify, Wave is not really extension to XMPP per se. The federation protocol between Wave servers is XMPP based, but the client-server communication (in this case the communication between your browser and the Wave server) isn't using XMPP. I believe that at the moment it's a proprietary format for exchanging JSON. There's some discussion both on Wave and in Google Groups about standardization, but it's distinct from server-server federation right now.
- Ken Sheppardson
Louis, thanks for the tip, but I don't see the point if it is already pretty easy to "follow" people for Google Reader users. Isn't this link as easy to give someone has a twitter account: http://www.google.com/reader...
- Phillip Stewart
Phil, my guidance is always to provide your content wherever people want to be. If people prefer Twitter, give them your content on Twitter. The new rules for conversation and marketing is be where they want you to be, not where you tell them to.
- Louis Gray
I like that Louis. I may quote you on that.
- tomit
Another option is to use the tag feature. Each tag you have in Reader you can expose as a separate feed. That feed is also PubSubHubbub enabled. So you could only retweet when you apply that tag to an item.
- Brett Slatkin
Not sure if reader2twitter supports those tag feed URLs though.
- Brett Slatkin
Why not just do "Send to Twitter" if you're going to do it on a post-by-post basis?
- Jesse Stay
Depends on how many clicks you like to make? I dunno
- Brett Slatkin
@phillip you can just sync share which has note
- kang
from fftogo
@Brett good idea. I will work on it
- kang
from fftogo
if you go with the solution to send to twitter only items that have a specific tag, you could use twitterfeed.
- George Moga
Maybe Saturday for the baby, Robert? Here's hoping all goes well!
- Robert J Taylor
social media is dead, huh? wonder how he feels about the public option. :D
- Karoli
you should invite @caro on Gillmor Gang, Steve - she'd be great
- Kevin Marks
I wish Facebook allowed multiple accounts on threadly
- earl wallace
a design comment on this page: If the rackspace sponsor icon were above the video screen, the friendfeed discussion would line up with the video better.
- Karoli
For me, I'll be much more selective about who I share my location with. And I'm not likely to send a friend request for a location-based system to someone who I haven't met and consider a "real life" friend.
- Mike Doeff
guys, has scoble been saying we should share our location or something ?
- Mark
The evidence to me that we're on the path to everybody becoming Scoble one day will be the existence of a second person like Scoble :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
I share my location via BrightKite to my friends, and I use Navizon on my jailbroke iPhone to update a map on my Facebook page every 10 minutes. Kinda fun.
- Otto
Fire Eagle enables the sharing of location between services quite well.
- Otto
Have to agree with Scoble on the sharing capabilities of things like Foursquare ... not worried about the privacy issue at all
- Robert J Taylor
Fun, Otto, but you really don't want people knowing where you live. I have been stalked and it's scary
- Francine Hardaway
Francine: The only people that can see my location are people I know. I don't friend people on social sites if I don't know them. Facebook especially.
- Otto
I use Foursquare. But once again not in mmy home
- Francine Hardaway
I've had people (on FriendFeed and my blog) threaten me and my family. Since then I'm very careful revealing my location. I want control - I think utilizing Facebook privacy controls is the best way to do this.
- Jesse Stay
BrightKite offers a neat feature to make specific locations more private than others, so you can use it at home, but only your BrightKite Friends can see it (as opposed to the world)
- Otto
Francine, you tweet your location out a lot...I hate the whole idea of letting folks know where I am in real time unless there's some purpose in that notification.
- Karoli
But there's a fundamental difference between something like "track" and geolocation serivces. People don't know what "track" is, but they know what "everybody knows exactly where I am at all times" is.
- Ken Sheppardson
people make @foursquare venues for their homes that don't have addresses on, so they can check in, but only those in the know can find them
- Kevin Marks
yeah i have my place but not my apt number
- MG Siegler
Foursquare is crap. It doesn't work in any city within 400 miles of me. How the hell can a company sustain that sort of thing? They're totally ignoring like 80% of the bloody country.
- Otto
Definitely am an outlier. I like sharing my location so people who know me (or want to) can join me. Works well in my home town and in towns I'm visiting.
- Robert J Taylor
Main reason me and friends use BrightKite is to check in at places so that we can meet up without having to trade texts and calls and such. Much nicer than how it was before, having 20 people call to ask what bar we're hanging at
- Otto
Dave, if I were stuck on a country road in the dark and wanted someone to come get me, it would be extremely handy. (that's actually happened to me in the past)
- Karoli
yeah i've seen a few things like that coming soon also
- MG Siegler
Not to throw a legal question into the mix but at what point do we all become default public figures as a result of our election to disclose personal information? The privacy myth writ large.
- Dave Martin
By the way, was talking to someone who work kids trying to get guns off the streets, and they were explaining that one of the biggest problem they have these days is girlfriends with cellphones.
- Ken Sheppardson
with latitude you can choose what to share with who (share best location, city level, hide)...
- Antonella Stellacci
@Karoli good point but we would probably agree that you would want to somehow limit those who were made aware that you were alone on a dark road
- Dave Martin
Dave: If that actually occurred, it would be a horrific fail and the backlash would be tremendous. Can you image how many people would get ticked off about starbucks tracking them?
- Otto
Otto: I think that the same thing was said about Twitter - who cares what you're doing, besides some friends? Now we're talking about "where are you"...
- Robert J Taylor
Thanks Steve, Kevin, Seth, MG, Robert, good show
- Dave Martin
Just joking Otto, we agree, there are two issues, having access to the data and application of the data, collection/mining will be the science, application will prove to be the art
- Dave Martin
@Kevin: Yes, foursquare supports 21 cities. But I live in the 19th biggest city in the country, Downtown no less, and foursquare doesn't have it. Lame, lame, lame.
- Otto
yeah crowd-sourcing cities is coming soon. will open it to a lot more
- MG Siegler
I live in the 7th largest city -- no Foursquare love for San Antonio. Always pretends I'm in Austin
- Robert J Taylor
Crowdsourcing should have been in there in the first place. Gowalla has 50-60 locations in my city, and I was only the 3000th user or so. What the hell good is a location based app that doesn't work in almost all locations?
- Otto
I live in the 10th largest City, San Jose, and I have to tell @foursquare it's San Francisco...
- Kevin Marks
Kevin, I had the same problem in Boston. It doesn't work well with suburbia.
- Jesse Stay
San Francisco is a suburb of San Jose. If you go by population.
- Gabe Wachob
One thing is certain, GPS will redefine "local" to mean not DMA, block code or any other crude marketing/census definition but local as EXACTLY where you are in the moment.
- Dave Martin
or san jose is a suburb of SF if you go by white upper middle class cultural associations
- mary
Actually, San Jose is part of the so-called embedded San Francisco metro or DMA/SMSA definition.
- Dave Martin
what method does tornado use to pull updates that it pushes realtime?
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Wave is XMPP based... hence my earlier question RE how he'd tie XMPP into Tornado... where he sees the intergration points and overlap.
- Ken Sheppardson
I'd love to know when noreply and donotreply goes away from Facebook notification emails.
- Jay Cuthrell
Mochiweb (Erlang web framework) has some pretty easy to use support for long-polling too. Use it at http://replies.twitterfall.com for the streaming API there. I think Facebook use it for chat? (guess)
- Jalada
Agreed Steve.......This is now officially WAY over my head.... ;-)
- Mike Kelly
So, Bret... any plans for a near-term Tornado meetup?
- Ken Sheppardson
Has there been any discussion on any top line scaling metrics they are shooting for now? i.e. transcations per second, etc.
- Jay Cuthrell
Thursdays between 1 - 2pm SFO likes to fly jets over the NGL studios! We must have a talk about this
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Can anyone ask Bret if Friendfeed plans to open source more of their code. Would love to see how Friendfeed handles the aggregation of all the user feeds.
- arjo
Yeah I know about that, unless I'm mistaken it doesn't have the newsgang live from tue 09/08
- Michael Breslin
I've only been recording episodes of the Gillmor Gang so unless someone else has recorded NewGang you will have to wait until Steve puts it on YouTube
- Jack
Mike: That link is to the same file as in the bootleg feed
- Jack
I was thinking about the limitations on TV broadcast video for a simulcast with sidebar conversation... not sure how many people have 62" TV's yet that would support offload to a interstital and separate chat window (reminds me of early AOL experiments with interactive pre-IPTV)
- Jay Cuthrell
I talk with Udell all the time, just not on the air recently
- Steve Gillmor
[ (TV) (sidebar) ] would be a pretty big screen
- Jay Cuthrell
okay, later. Lots of fun, Steve, thanks for rerunning for lamers like me who missed the first round.
- Karoli
Yes thanks very much for the bootlegs Jack, much appreciated all around.
- Michael Breslin
btw thank you for recording the prev show!
- Michael Pinto
Listened to the bootleg feed, great show. I doubt I'll ever watch live as I'm more a radio guy. Loren's comment as being a trusted source for reporting the Michael Jackson funeral has a disturbing similarity to Blackwater being a trusted source for the US Military. I'm all for keeping Feldman and Keen on the show and it was great hearing Calacanis again, Scoble on the other hand.... It's your show Steve
- Jason Adams
Just returned from holiday to discover that Steve has put the gang back together. Great first show. Love the fact that Steve no longer sounds like a call-in guest on his own show. Thanks to whoever set up the bootleg mp3 feed - vital for this long-term listener. Keep up the good work, chaps and chapesses!
- Richard Carter, FCD
from iPhone
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- Dave Winer