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Download Safari 4 now: http://www.apple.com/safari... [Recommended for OS X and Windows.]
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The tabs are back beneath the bookmarks bar! Let the angels rejoice!
- Dave Martin
Dave, the fact that the tabs are back beneath the bookmarks bar is probably what's going to get me using something else.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Anyone else get a BSOD on first boot in XP?
- Nathan Finley
Akiva, that's interesting. I tried to like it. Came to sort of ignore it. Eventually shifted to firefox3.5b because it bugged my aesthetic sense (on the mac) less than Safari's weird tabs-as-window-bar thing. Even Chromium & Chrome for Mac are less weird looking to me than the tabs-as-window-bar.
- Dave Martin
BOO. I actually liked where the tabs were in the Beta. I think I'll stick with the beta.
- cecily
it's sooooooo much better than the beta
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
No, I will not download it now. You are NOT the boss of me. ;P
- Yolanda
Dave, admittedly, they needed to work on the aesthetics and functionality of it all but I liked it a lot better than the tabs being beneath the toolbar.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Wait, the tabs are back on the bottom for both Mac and PC?
- TheHenry
Maybe you can still modify it by changing the property list setting? http://www.macosxhints.com/article...
- Victor Ganata
Victor, I'd be surprised if that still worked seeing as how it was a debug mode for a beta product.
- Akiva Moskovitz
TheHenry, they're back under the toolbar everywhere.
- Akiva Moskovitz
oh ok thanks :)
- TheHenry
This afternoon I'm speaking to CIOs from many of the world's biggest companies about the 2010 Web. I'll put this post on screen, tell them what web things they should be considering:
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I have a slew of things I'm going to show them and talk to them about from discovery services, to video services, to collaboration tools/services, to enterprise 2.0 suites. What is important for a CIO to know about?
- Robert Scoble
To the CIOs in the audience: Your company is not Friendfeed.
- Jeff Stannard
make money in a 2.0 way
- Lorenzo Strambi
@scobleizer: Privacy, discoverability, compliance - how do those initiatives impact what CIO's should be thinking about when considering adoption of web services.
- Nick Wade
definitely the growth of the Real Time web & it's challenge to traditional search engines
- sofarsoShawn
Location will become ever more important as mobile devices become geo-aware.
- Stu Rich
If applicable to their business, making data available to the public can be a huge plus. This way, interested developers can create things that will have huge benefit without them having to pay large amounts of money to hire someone. It also makes them seem more open.
- Brandon Titus
Usability. All these social media tools are great, but they still don't work together very smoothly. Just trying to explain to employees how to follow conversations on Twitter by flitting back and forth between users gives them nosebleed.
- Kawika Holbrook
Tell them they should sign-up on Friendfeed and Twitter and they'll get all the information they need
- meckimac
Tell them that somewhere out there, at least one of their competitors is going to try and beat them by leveraging enterprise social computing concepts to pull their suppliers and partners into what used to be closed product innovation, customer satisfaction and marketing processes. What are they doing about it?
- Sameer
Twitter and Friendfeed are fantastic for conversations, but if you aren't following active users, then it never happens.
- Nathan Finley
Tell them to use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube API's instead of creating more sites to login to.
- matthew bennett
If they are watching this FF thread, they are seeing a good example of 2010
- Mike Nencetti
Insanely speedy response to world and company events will require a robust team of strategic thinkers monitoring a wide range of media. Knowing when to respond and when NOT to respond to company info, competitor info, industry info as enterprises go bankrupt, go public, go off the tracks, will require CIO, CMO, COO and Company Spokesperson Swat Team Excellence.
- Halley Suitt
@scobleizer: oh, and for god's sake tell them that SaaS isn't snake oil. It's just another tool in the shed. Another weapon in the armoury. Deploy it at the right time in the right circumstances and it should work well. SaaS-ify everything just because it's buzz, and things won't go well.
- Nick Wade
Data portability: let me both import to and export data from their service.
- Will King
tell them or ask them? Ask them what challenges they are facing.
- Dan (Dima) Itkis
Web 2010 should be interpolable and intelligent enough to coordinate itself effectively.
- ashish
Moving from superficial social/entertainment network to action-based networking (helping with business growth, personal goals, political, spiritual, etc) that effects the real world.
- Leif Hansen
Watch friendfeed closely - we may not have the answers, but we're asking all of the right questions.
- Iain Baker
Facebook is like Ebay: closed services that casual users will grow tired with over time.
- Jeff Stannard
Usability, mobility, privacy and interoperability. Avoiding fragmentation of the informations that came from all the social sites
- Lorenzo Strambi
Watching the '4th wall' come down (online/offline, virtual/real) via nowsourcing, mobile tech, location-awareness, etc.
- Leif Hansen
First off I would ask them if they know what the web is and how they currently use it. It's a fair bet many won't have a clue beyond email and a bit of porn.
- Gilbert Harding
Nathan: Twitter and FriendFeed are great for conversations, but if they don't engage with users, it'll never happen.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
Social media burnout -too many accounts and 'spaces' online will force people to ask hard questions about how dependent they really want to be on technology, where their boundaries lie, how to filter noise, and which 'tribes' offer the most payback to their particular context.
- Leif Hansen
For us, there seems to be a big gap between possibilities and actualities for both internal and external audiences - mostly due to disagreements over usage and guidelines. It is frustrating for those of us who want to embrace Web communication tools but cannot seem to progress into implementation! If anything ... embrace what's available and work to make it easily accessible and usable for employees and corporate initiatives.
- Ingrid Williams
Transparency
- Gambit Fauri
And of course, count on people under 25 knowing more about their business than they do. CIO's should have a Board of Advisors (a dozen) all under 25.
- Halley Suitt
Tell them 2010 web is their chance to go from the Cathedral in customer service to the Bazaar. A month ago two separate Comcast "chat" service reps told me my problem needed a tech to come out to the site; a brief Twitter conversation with @comcastcares got the problem solved in five minutes. The Twitter reps were just plain better, friendlier and more proactive. The biggest benefit of 2010 web is NOT this app or that site, it's the change in mindset among the service reps.
- Maxwell Kennerly
Enterprise 2.0 (not just business, but NPs, schools, etc.). Organizations will finally realize how powerful social tools can be when they focus on empowering their unique tribe.
- Leif Hansen
One of the most important things that is overlooked is that they need to leverage IT assets to preserve institutional memory
- RAPatton
We are all turning to micro- Microblogs,Micropayments,Microapps, Micro attention and web is turning out to be one single thing consisting of all these ever growing microthings.
- ashish
The next big thing: http://www.building43.com
- sofarsoShawn
Any specific companies or services that I definitely should show them?
- Robert Scoble
A great topic of conversation (though perhaps not the audience) would be the difficulties enterprises encounter when adopting and adapting to web 2.0 tools internally, and their concern with open web content as it pertains to intellectual property and customer confidentiality.
- jcunwired
Jcunwired, agree, that's definitely a massive issue/concern along with user privacy
- sofarsoShawn
I agree with jcunwired, do these big companies understand what it means not to be half pregnant when it comes to the open web? Some have built their biz models on not being open, how are they to interact with this new world? Can these companies risk losing some control?
- Daniel Kenney
CIOs should note the numerous times small upstarts have taken over from big incumbents on the web. If they want to make successful cutting-edge web projects happen, they need to maintain a small-company mentality in those projects.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
I agree with Bruce
- Gambit Fauri
@scobleizer: maybe show them 37signals, Yammer and Cubetree. If they are multi-national CIO's, they'll be interested in collaboration toolsets.
- Nick Wade
@Steve Lynch it's true that if I don't engage, things don't happen. But I have to follow, before I can engage!
- Nathan Finley
@scobleizer CIOs need to know that these tools can be used to create better rapport with existing customers, attract new customers by creating transparent/honest communication about their company, improve internal processes and reduce costs through community-driven knowledge sharing, and apply the technologies in small ways that are best for them given their compliance and internal governance requirements. Fear of not moving forward is not a valid reason for not doing something.
- Altan Khendup
ask them to involve more China and Indonesia.. for we both are absolutely not in crisis! eg. we need more servers and bandwidth..
- Pico Seno
Identity portability: customers will widely expect to engage online with your company via their existing profile accounts - FB Connect, OpenID, Google - take your pick. CIOs will need to drive the reconciliation of their closed registration systems with what these open systems provide.
- Sean O'Brien
We've started talking to some of our bigger customers about what is life like after Microsoft Office. Old way: Making word docs, spreadsheets and powerpoints and then emailing them. New way: Still being developed. Opportunity: Companies that get collaboration right will have huge competitive advantages. Products: CubeTree but of course I'm biased. ;)
- Carlin
@Carlin - hey hey Carlin, you're welcome ;) Hope you're doing well.
- Nick Wade
+1 Sean. I don't want to have to create a profile on every site I visit.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
I don't want to create a profile on every site either, but I also don't want any one site to be the master profile and "know" everything about every site I go to either. Duplication of silo'd profiles is an aid to a sort of privacy.
- Keith Fulton
@scobleizer Awesome mindmap. Why does youtube not make the map under video?
- Kevin Murray
Top complaint about Kindle: too expensive. Amazon's solution: make an even larger, more expensive model for broke students.
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Academic books are $60 to $120 each and weigh many pounds. If they can get even half of the academic books ported to the Kindle this is a big win for students, even though it is expensive.
- Robert Scoble
I can imagine universities giving Kindles to first-year students or at least offering them to students at a reduced cost. I don't think we'll see a huge reduction in the price of text books, because you will still be paying for publisher costs.
- Nathan Finley
My books from school had a lot of text marked in yellow or pink, to remember what was important. I think it would take a lot to get use to using the Kindle
- Asgeir
Asgeir - you can bookmark, highlight and annotate text in Kindle
- Jamie
scoble: are the text books free then?
- Riaz Kanani
@Asgeir It is really only a matter of a couple of years that students will have NOT known that Kindles and other readers haven't always been around. To them it will be a natural to tag, search, share, etc.
- Jim Espinoza
It really is expensive. And you know textbooks are still going to cost $100+ each.
- Barry Biddlecomb
from twhirl
If the books are cut down to about half the price because of the kindle, every student will get one. I need to spend 200+ on books every quarter, and that's with buying used and looking for the best deal.
- robbie nakamura
the text books don't have to be *free*. if you spend $900 on textbooks a year (http://www.uspirg.org/higher-...), the Amazon textbooks just have to be 14% cheaper than the paper versions (saving you $126/year) for the Kindle DX to pay for itself after 4 years.
- Karim
good analysis here of why it's good for the publishers, too: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL... basically, without printing and shipping costs, they can sell books at lower cost but with a higher margin. Amazon is trying to do to books what Apple did to music. :-)
- Karim
good point karim - ebooks are cheaper typically than books.. so could be good if text books see the same level of discounting
- Riaz Kanani
so what is going to happened to libraries, if books in the future is digital?. Perhaps one day we can rent a book and read it on the Kindle?
- Asgeir
The Kindle is still a novelty until it comes with colour and supports graphic novels/comics, with backing from Marvel and DC. And drops to about $199. Then they'll be flying off the shelves. As it is now it's an expensive gimmick. What amazes me about the DX is you now need two hands to read. Can't be long until the market is flooded with cheaper, smaller alternatives. Or more likely...
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- Shéa Bennett
Kindle should come in 2 flavors IMHO... Wireless G and EVDO. I already have sprint internet on my phone. I won't buy a kindle to pay for a connection I already have.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Students already have laptops: they need PDFs not another large device to lug. Physical books sell used @ 50% eBooks are new only
- Tyler Ham
My experience in the UK at least is that the ebook versions are not cheaper, can usually find printed ones heavily discounted. Although we can't actually get the Kindle, only other brands like Sony and have to buy ebooks from Waterstones or WHSmith. Will Amazon launch in UK soon?
- Steven Horner
from Nambu
I pay a $95 fee per class for e-books at the University of Phoenix - if I could get them on a Kindle, for half the cost (assuming a partnership between Amazon and U of P), I'd do it in a blink
- William Harryman
I'd love something that is, well, like a book. Small and foldable. I couldn't take this on the train to read. People are used to reading books why not design to feel like one. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Amazon is still only aiming this at the American market, once they go global, it will be quite a different story.
- chris demeyere
Is 500$ too much for being able to sit in the sun, save trees and finally read programming papers without code snippets getting messed up?
- Thomas Amberg
If my textbooks were available on a kindle... I'd pay up to a grand for one. The kindle is reusable from year to year... my text books... not so much. I pay just about two grand a year for text books.
- Joshua Schnell
Core texts are significantly cheaper in the UK, and unless you can resell on your core texts second hand (which you don't seem to be able to do with an electronic text in this case), it's going to be a difficult case to prove for the academic text in Kindle
- David Bird
you can resell a second-hand Kindle just like a physical book. :-) i'd guess that licensing on the DRM'ed books doesn't allow resale, but i can imagine a black market for those. how much would a freshman pay for a 4-year-old Kindle that already had every single textbook they were going to need in the next four years on it? :-) and what if the textbooks were already annotated with "this question will appear on the final" notes? NOW how much would you pay? lol
- Karim
Karim, that's genius. Could you imagine universities and colleges building them into their programs? Students would get a preloaded kindle with their course materials in 1st year. Man, that would be a game changer.
- Joshua Schnell
It's a no-brainer for all economic reasons laid out by many above commenters as replacement for dead tree textbooks. So only shoe to fall is MIT, UC Berkeley, CalTech and Princeton (above all- Bezos alma mater) to be part of a discount university marketing program launched by Amazon. Bring it on.
- Lisa thorell
iPhone 3G disaster - http://qik.com/video/127389
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the sky isn't falling, but it's an inconvenience that they should have been ready for. what part of iReady did they not get?
- michael sean wright
you ask the 500 people standing in line in hot sun if this is anything less than a disaster.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I think this what is known as a self inflicted wound. Hard to have any sympathy
- Brian Sullivan
Definitely self-inflicted. All over the place, people are having problems. Apple has a mess on their hands today.
- Candace
While I think this situation might have been avoidable, I would hardly call it a disaster. I would reserve that word for Iraq, hurricane Katrina, etc.
- Otto R. Radke
I'll ask them right after I ask the folks who were at the Superdome if its the same. They are standing in line FOR A PHONE. A PHONE. A P-H-O-N-E.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I look at it as a tech disaster, but also a PR nightmare...
- Nathan Finley
Like @CS
- Naor Mark
Just further proof of the bubble that Robert and others in the Valley live in...
- Harish V
I think I can hear Jobs screaming somthing. Can't make out what it is....
- Roberto Bonini
That sound you hear is somebody getting fired...
- Nathan Finley
I'm not sure that the slowdowns today qualify as either PR nightmares or disasters. For example, I think the price drop of iPhone 1.0 was a bigger PR problem than the signups being slow. Some things just end up taking time, particularly when they are new and there is a high demand for them. I wonder if some of the language here is influenced by tech myopia. In other words, I wonder if...
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- John
from twhirl
Hardly a disaster, but I like how Robert quickly corrected his son about who's to blame for the issue. Just funny how Apple fans quickly defend. It's okay to complain to Apple. :-)
- Jim McCusker
+1 CS
- Cyndy
@Nathan that sound you hear is $ streaming into Apple's bank account!
- Jim McCusker
is that a 16gb? did your son pay for the phone himself?
- Allen Stern
To quote The Who, "this is no social crisis, just another tricky day..."
- Robert Seidman
i think this whole thing is obnoxious and sheep-like standing in line for a bloody phone, there are so many more devices out there with much more features and better functionality, but noooo, just because it's an EYE phone... sometimes I fear I do not understand my fellow human beings at all! Iran threatening to bomb everything in sight, China violating Tibetan rights, starving AIDS orphans in Africa, Katrina, 911, Columbine, Virginia Tech, THOSE ARE DISASTERS! Priorities people, come on... FFS!
- Mario Olckers
mario cmon - you should also know apparently robert didn't even wait in line with his son - they cut the line - what does that say?
- Allen Stern
Yeah the instore activation was a bad bad idea..
- Shawn
All I get out of this post is that Robert was able to spend time with his son. That's a good thing.
- Eric Thompson
All the non-US customers that are not reviewers/bloggers, what the F are you thinking? I love tech galore but please, This is radical fanboyism I want no part off. GPS, 3G and yes The iphone have existed prior to July 11th.
- Tate DA FF MVP
+1 Shawn. That was one of the game changing things about the iPhone originally: you spent 5 minutes in the store buying it, you took it home, plugged it into iTunes *at your leisure*, spent another 5 minutes activating it. Done. Flipped a big middle finger to every other phone requiring in-store paperwork. Only now they take it away? whiskey tango foxtrot. So glad I wasn't in line this year. (hugs iPhone from last year)
- Karim
Allen - there is no white 8GB....so the answer is "yes"
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
a disaster to a very specific subset of people... walking around NYC today I didn't notice many shrieks of terror or people crying in the streets
- Nathan Manley
from Alert Thingy
Nathan: that is true but look at http://www.techmeme.com
- Robert Scoble
I'm feeling pretty smug about my decision to wait a week before upgrading.
- Kevin D. White
I was in the store for 9 hrs today. Fido here in Canada was hit hard and their servers were not working to even activate the phone. By the time I left iTunes was still not unbricking the phones, that was at 3:40pm EST. My phone is still not unbricked.
- Ryan
Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina, Indian Ocean Earthquake were disasters. This was just a magnificent f*ck-up.
- Michael Markman
I had a really great experience waiting, receiving and activating my new iPhone today.
- Jordan
lol about techmeme... yes but this would still fall under my "very specific subset of people" also reports are coming in that the activation servers are back up, so like any good disaster 2.0 it is getting fixed pretty quickly :)
- Nathan Manley
from Alert Thingy
although keeping technology addicts in the sun (or outside at all) could be disaster... we melt easily
- Nathan Manley
from Alert Thingy
I can't really understand all the hype regarding new mobile phones, IMHO they are nowadays more or less commodities and technical innovation is rather limited.
- Arnd Gronenberg
Didn't Apple say there would be no shortage of phones? I don't know why everyone had to be there today, I'll wait till Monday and probably be setup in less than an hour. (Said with fingers crossed.)
- Bob Gannon
I was there at the Apple store in downtown SF at 6am, for my first iPhone, finally walking out of the store at 12:30 after some activation trouble. Took a lot longer than expected but you could tell this one was out of the hands of the store employees, who I felt did a very good job considering the circumstances. I chalk this one up to the idiots at AT&T who demanded in store activation.
- David Nichols
iPhone Activation Proving Impossible - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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It's a farce in every way possible. Glad I didn't manage to get one today!
- Martin Bryant
Glad I activated my first gen iPhone this AM. Took me over an hour with the server issues, but I got it done. It looks like they pulled the new firmware for first-gen users for now. Anyone else not able to update their first gen phone anymore?
- Sujal Shah
It's funny. I felt guilty for downloading the firmware before it was officially released, and I've got a working 1st-gen iPhone. :P
- l0ckergn0me
I feel bad for people. I'm currently looking at a working 3G iPhone and watching it do it's thing.
- Candace
I was able to get activated but can't connect to any data networks
- Jesse McPherson
Finally got mine registered, sync'ing now... gigs of content take a long time, new tech or no
- Jason Carreira
from twhirl
I was a beta tester for 2.0 and I foolishly decided to upgrade this morning after Apple sent me an email saying I need to update to the final release. Now, after 3 plus hours, I'm finally activated and back in business!! Apple, you can play dirty pool at times, but I still love ya!!
- Nathan Finley
Holy crap: http://qik.com/video/125418
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You should have seen this live. Amazing.
- Robert Scoble
That was really sweet.
- Jordan Hofker
I think Ansel Adams would have really enjoyed this.
- Andy Roth
I want a surface for myself. Seeing that climber is insane.
- Matt Donders
from twhirl
I can't help it... everytime I see Microsoft Surface in action I think http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Robert Gonzalez
The Seadragon stuff is impressive as usual. I hadn't seen the dial UI before. That was pretty cool, in that it takes us back to a day when things were operated with physical dials. I wonder if people will prefer the tactile dials to the ones that are merely drawn on screen...
- Karim
Very cool. Re-posted to blog
- Douglas E. Welch
from twhirl
Karim: I thought those dials were cool. I loved the interaction of the physical with the virtual.
- Robert Scoble
The bridge between physical and virtual is very interesting to me. I just picked up a new LG Voyager that has a tactile feedback touch screen. First one I've ever owned. Cool stuff.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Surface is amazing.
- Nicholas James
when they put the dice on there - reminded me of this: http://reactable.iua.upf.edu/
- Cole Orton
nice little vid. the way all the photos were organized looked amazing
- Cee Bee
A nice application of Surface.
- Daniel Miessler
I just showed this to my wife who thinks this is the coolest thing ever!
- Joseph Ferris
Now I have a reason to save up for Surface!! Way cool, @Scoble!!
- Nathan Finley
How is technology changing the world of Washington D.C.? - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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It's amazing how many social media tools I saw in use today. Yeah, it's not changing fast enough for most of us passionate types, but it sure is changing quickly.
- Robert Scoble
Cool! I'd love to know what social media tools those folks in DC were using today!
- Susan Beebe
@Robert Great post. I loved how Congressman Culberson owned the guy from TMZ. That was a classic. It will be really intriguing to see how committed these politicians are to building relationships using the social media tools that they have at their disposal.
- Chris Rodgers
Amazing post Robert. What an incredible day you must have had. Curious to hear what Patrick though of it all too. So envious. I've been looking forward to this post all day as I could not follow you live. We are clearly helping shape the future with our efforts on there here socnets. Wait till GW hears that we are talking to people in Iran on Friendfeed. *chills down spine*
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Thanks for the DC update
- Mitchell Tsai
Wow, this is great story with amazing amount of detailed use of social media tools. who would have known?! shock and awe
- Susan Beebe
Great article! I love the bit about the Congressman twittering from the Oval Office.
- Michael Zitek
I believe in the tech I was arguing in it's favor 8 years ago on the Hill but until it decides in a House or Senate election, I call bullshit. Robert I believe in the earnest and true honestly of belief of your effort. I am not talking ideology or what the people belief you think but until it decides an election they(DC Hill folks) really won't believe.
- Thomas Vincent
Thomas: do newspapers or radio decide House or Senate elections? I don't think so. They sure help, though.
- Robert Scoble
True Robert, but more so than internet does yet? But we are getting there soon :-)
- Thomas Vincent
Thomas: I think for people passionate about politics the Internet is already having way more impact than any other media. For those who aren't passionate, yes, TV is still the #1 way they get their info, but that's changing pretty quickly too.
- Robert Scoble
It is changing things, but you also have to ask it changing things across the whole spectrum of those who are involved in politics, i.e. the rich and the poor, the educated and the not? A system in which everyone has access to this that and the other thing is nice, but you also has to ask who all is included in 'everyone', especially in a country in which many people don't have computers or net access.
- Andrew Leyden
Think your theme loses out to Lawrence Lessig's idea on changing Washington.http://change-congress.org/pledge... Don't think it matters if a guy is corrupt and pork barreling and Tweet's or doesn't. The system is bad, not the toys they use to navigate it.
- Mark Forman
Perfect no Andrew, but those who have an interest can find their way
- Thomas Vincent
Mark: Lessig's idea is awesome, but Culberson disagrees with you. He is of the belief that if you shine light on things that the roaches scatter.
- Robert Scoble
Robert-on that point certainly holds validity. That's why discussion is better than a monologue because it allows consideration on more than one point.I think that many different idea and discussions are needed to make DC a little bit better,not even good or passable,just a little better. Ironic that that place was a swamp.
- Mark Forman
I worked on a "low-budget" Maryland senate campaign for Allan Lichtman in 2006, fresh out of college, and we were dubbed in an article by Business Week as the first campaign to fully embrace myspace/facebook. We had a staff member who's full time job was adding friends, and other profile management type services. Now, campaigns have full-time departments to do just that! amazing. Here's that article: http://www.businessweek.com/technol...
- Brian Ries
There is also a huge divide between the politics of the Hill and the politics of a campaign. The two are very very different things and those who work on the Hill usually don't know the first thing about campaign politics and vise versa. Both worlds will find completely different uses for new technologies
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
I wish @BarackObama would post more from the campaign trail. No, I don't expect to be him personally, but yes, I'd expect him to have a guy or gal to post one thing to Twitter each day.
- Kirk Kittell
Kirk. I told Obama's tech guy just that at breakfast.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Did you find out if he ever does it himself? I mean, not all the time, but once in a while is it him who updates it? I guess probably not.
- Eric Florenzano
Thanks Robert - However, I might have appreciated it more if you had volunteered me ;-)
- Kirk Kittell
I believe the word we are searching for here is "transparent"!! I think everyone wishes that government officials were more transparent with their decision making processes as well as things happening on Capital Hill. Kudos to Scoble for shedding some light on a new wave of thinking from inside the hallowed halls of our government!! Even if the wave is too small to ride yet!!
- Nathan Finley
Eric: it isn't him most of the time but he says that Obama is the fastest keyboarder on a Blackberry. I told him (and one of McCain's advisers too) to use these tools interactively. We will see!
- Robert Scoble
@scobleizer How is tech changing Washington politics? Interesting FriendFeed discussion here. Thanx!
- Barbara K. Baker
too bad there isn't a directory of Govt folks to show who's on online using social networking tools like twitter, FF, Qik, etc.
- Susan Beebe
Still pains me to think about how tech-illiterate McCain is-- remember his interview on TechCrunch. The tech future's in much better hands with Obama, but that's an argument for a different time and place.
- Harish V
He thinks tech isn't important. Obama is going to make this one of a number of issues they nail McCain on. Many in Washington are saddened that he has changed his tone and positions to cowtow to religious right.
- Robert Scoble
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