I could say something about bombs, but I like Biz's enthusiasm about his product. And everything will be OK. (Ken & Bob Company fans note that even in the Web 2.0 age, the world revolves around Ken Minyard.) - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Yup, a nice thing to think about with the 4th of July just behind us. - Steve Spalding
Did you see Shel Israel's take on this? He pointed out that they almost called "Naked Conversations" "Blog or Die," until someone noted that in some countries the rule is "blog AND die." They renamed their book. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
No I didn't but it's really apropos. We should all probably reflect a little more often on the freedoms we are afforded. - Steve Spalding
Who was that who built 6 $1 billion companies? - Morton Fox
I am not going to say. However, I have never seen anything like that. A handful of people were there and it might have been the most uncomfortable conversational pause I/we have ever experienced. It started as a pretty entertaining debate about Twitter actually, and before you know it this guy just dropped the bomb. He definitely wasn't saying it ironically either. He was worked up and he meant to lord over us. How do you reply? What are the next words out of your mouth? - Sacca
Just smile and move on. Karma will even things out. - Tad Donaghe
Must have been Jim Clark...what was debate? - Pokai
For some reason this reminds me of the line from the movie Heathers when high school douchebag responds to lunchtime poll about what would he do if he won the lottery: "That's easy. I just slide that wad over to my father, 'cause he is like one of the top brokers in the state." - hunter walk
I remember - I was 7. I remember an awesome series Kaptain Kangaroo did about the founding fathers and the constitution, etc. I remember patriotic displays at the grocery store and I remember how the city of Vicksburg painted all the fire hydrants to look like revolutionary war soldiers. Up until then it was relatively rare for the 4th to be a big deal in Vicksburg since the city surrendered on the 4th of July back during the Civil War... - Tad Donaghe
I spent the Bicentennial in Pascagoula. But I wasn't seven. ;-) - Chris Baskind
I was 14. I had a Johnny Horizon sticker on my bedroom door - "Let's clean up America for our 200th birthday." My friend (the one I visited in Knoxville in June) provided some illustrations for our junior high yearbook. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Also, that may have been the year that I played flute in a "fife" & drum unit in a neighborhood parade. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
The signing was right here in PA. For that matter, so was the first capitol. Tad, your right, I was there - Charlie Anzman
i was 4 1/2 and i was given a t-shirt with a cake and candles on it that said "Happy Birthday, America" and it was my favorite shirt for as long as i could fit into it. - edythe
I remember. I was 6. We had this big program at school and had to wear blue shirts with a red bandana and sing America the Beautiful. A boy peed on the floor in the front row and our teacher had a meltdown because we all started laughing in the middle of the song. - Trish Robinson
I was 6.. I remember hanging out with my best friend Keith and throwing pine cones at girls during recess. - J. Phil
I was 22, in the Army, in D.C. I remember going to see the Queen during her visit. - Jack Carlson
I was 6. If memory serves (although I do experience memory leaks these days) I seem to recall tall-mast ships on the water in NYC. We lived near there back then. - Kevin C. Tofel
I was 6 and I remember my dad taking the family to the railroad station in town to see the Bicentenial Train. That reminds me, we have pictures somewhere... - Bryan Hunter via twhirl
26. We watched the NYC fireworks on TV in Modesto, CA - - Russellreno
I was 23. I was living in Ithaca. We watched the tall ships on tv and then saw the lights around Lake Cayuga. Afterwards we went home and watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail on television - K Welch
I was seven, and was supporting Howard the Duck for president. I was forced to be in a bicentennial pageant, but for the life of me, I can't remember how it went. - Roger Benningfield
I was 17... That's the year I learned the truth. That love was meant for beauty queens. - Kevin Shannon
Age 10. Loved the bicentennial coins (as a coin collector) and the $2 bill (1st one since 1963). My sister was born that year (11/12/76). Same day as me, 10 years later. It was the 110th anniversary of Sun Yat-Sen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S..., the guy who brought democracy to China. - Mitchell Tsai
Twitter's character limit is starting to bug me. What I wanted to say was that if this is a replication / syncing issue, seems that the potential for a new kind of Phishing is enormous. - Ray Grieselhuber
Yep, we did, assorted sparklers and low-key stuff in the driveway. Raining here. - Larry Huffman
Raining here, but fireworks are not allowed in this state anyway. - Morton Fox
oh yeah had a great time. had 8 tubes shooting fireworks at a time. it was a nice show for everyonr watching. - (jeff)isageek via fftogo
Kids lit off sparklers, which are legal in las vegas. beyond that...no comment. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
We went to an Oklahoma City suburb, Mustang where they are legal and there were 15,000 people in the city park setting off fireworks until 11:00 PM. It was awesome! My clothes will smell like gun powder for weeks. I only heard the fire siren twice the whole evening. Some people must have more money than brains. The car beside mine set off some huge ones for more than two hours. I have never seen a professional show that could compare to this. - Paul L. McCord Jr.
Great time! Went to a baseball game and afterwards they let everyone sit on the field to watch the fireworks while they played classic american rock songs. - Tim Costantino
""The bureaucracy which had stubbornly refused to open the crown is finally moved in the right direction," Weiner said Friday. "Today's news means that America is one step closer to providing what everyone wants: safe access to the heights of Lady Liberty."" - Shellee via Bookmarklet
Good news. When my daughter was much younger, she climbed every step to the top of the Statue of Liberty. We've been back since, but the crown has been off limits. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Product A does not kill Product B. Product B kills itself by not innovating/keeping up. We'll see if "Product T" can overcome its current issues quickly enough. If they can't, there will be many other products entering the market. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Saw your Kwippy headline on Duncan Riley's new service, by the way. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Jeremy, I never would. It shouldn't be a one or the other proposition anyway...indeed, that's how the story in that direction happened. - Duncan Riley
Duncan is so talented on many fronts. Re: Excluding Techcrunch (or running out of space). Controversy sells. Mike Arrington is a master of the headline tweak, jab pull. It takes many forms. - Alex Hammer
thanks for including WinExtra duncan - I appreciate that - Steven Hodson
no probs Steve. As I mention in the post, if anyone has more ideas for page/ content let me know. Surely there must be a combination out there that will offer a quick look at a given topic that isn't being served by an existing service (the memes page here meets that for me...very handy) - Duncan Riley
for me it's easier. I like twitter more casue it's on twitter that I first experienced microblogging. You don't just have to "not suck" if you want me to move, you have to give me something totally different. Like.. Friendfeed? :) - Simone
I don't see that as trolling. Identi.ca was supposed to be "the competitor" for Twitter. The site itself is messy, subscriptions are weird, the tracking ability is lacking. I never cared for Pownce at all and Plurk looks like something a kid painted in kindergarten. - Candace Holly
I like it because you get the excitement of never knowing when it's gonna work - Blackopsmanners
i sorta agree, twitter usage seems to be resilient to fail-whale's mystic powers. loyal loyal base.. - Ruben Llibre
Twitter has the right user experience but the wrong internal architecture. The other sites don't even have the former and from what I've seen they don't have the latter either. Identi.ca seems to be amateur city as does Pownce. Plurk was too ugly to try out and no one I know uses Jaiku. - Dare Obasanjo
Jaiku is a pain to join, but the conversation features are nice. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Maybe it is just me, but I don't look at identi.ca to compete with Twitter. Rather it is more about what might be possible from an open source perspective when you're able to make multiple microblogging sites work together. I'm not looking for a "Twitter killer" from it, rather some real technology innovation for distributed microblogging. - David Recordon
plurk is only "ugly".. so why not use just the mobile version. - thecolor
I too enjoy the vertical layout over the horizontal, but prefer the threads in plurk and "stability" over twitters "just tweet". - thecolor
plurk is more of a game as well as a communicative social network. Twitter, feels more like a "statement made" only type of SN. - thecolor
@David Recordon +1. In fact, you truly are a visionary. +2. - Andy C
Isn't it also because FriendFeed lacks whatever it is that Twitter gets right? - blackmailismylife
I agree with David. I think its going to be more about supporting the people that are contributing to the development of a new way of doing Tweet like micro-blogging. - Chacha via twhirl
@blackmailismylife: FriendFeed isn't constrained to 140 chars. Twitter/Jaiku/Pownce/Identi.ca are. What some would see as a feature, others see as a restriction. Sometimes, you need to be constrained to 140 chars. Less is more. - Andy C
Much as I find Scoble the arse-hole of the A-Lister Blogger body, he has a point. Twitter is for all its flaws, the best out there. - Adam Wilcox
I tend to agree. I've tried pownce and din't like it in the least. Twitter is simple and easy. They just need to get their issues fixed. - Richard Miles
Seems to be the way things go. We stick with whatever "sucks less." - Jason Shultz via twhirl
People stick with Twitter because Twitter has the community and the cool API applications. - possible248
@Andy Apples and Oranges. This has been discussed to death but friendfeed doesn't fill the same shoes..er..rackspace as twitter. - Kamath via twhirl
Scoble: What an unpleasant and uncharitable comment to make about Identi.ca, a free service (that will remain free forever, something you are not guaranteed by any of the others that you mention) in early alpha testing. I was already unconvinced by the inexplicable personality cult that you seem to have generated for yourself, but now you've given me the last reason I needed to flip the bozo bit. Thankfully FriendFeed has a button I can use to do that. - Earle Martin
There is a difference between what something is and what it will be. Or what it may be. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Scoble curious what would Bush choose after leaving white house - Fred Grott
I have to agree with @earle on this one, comparing twitter and identi.ca is impossible, identi is very early stages, twitter has been around. I doubt you would compare a alpha release of a program with a final version. As far as the others sucking, how so? I find plurk to be more fun, enlightening, and easier to follow than twitter. - BCK
Identi.ca isn't ready for prime time. It doesn't even keep me logged in. Pownce is good, but no one is there. - Francine Hardaway
BCK: what do you mean we can't compare the two? That's the lamest thing I've read in weeks here. A clone of a service (and that's all that Identi.ca is so far) DAMN STRAIGHT BETTER BE BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL. So far it's not. Why should I pay any of my attention time to it if it isn't going to be as good. And anyone who says that they are different is drinking on this 4th of July. At least Plurk looks different. - Robert Scoble
identi.ca was released prematurely, imho. if they waited til they got *all* twitter functionality working before opening it up, would have been a great Twitter clone. Now, it is struggling. Plurk, otoh, tried to look different with all those ajax thingamagigs but too much ajax is not really good! - Rom Feria
Rom: I totally agree with you. I'm also getting tired of trying all these Twitter clones. FriendFeed proved to me that even if something is better in a lot of respects you'll never get enough people to switch to really matter anyway. - Robert Scoble
But some of these services are a great place to talk to a very small number of people (which makes them fun in of themselves). - Robert Scoble
AndyC: Pownce is very slow and I can't sign into it. Fails to let me in. - Robert Scoble
AndyC: Jaiku? Slow and hard to comment on and I don't like the UI. - Robert Scoble
AndyC: Identi.ca has no way to look at replies, participate in conversations, not to mention no search, no direct messages (even though I hate them), no real community yet, and has lots of bugs like what Francine said. - Robert Scoble
AndyC: Plurk has a UI that 13-year-olds love, but isn't simple to track thousands of people on. - Robert Scoble
Twitter has a huge userbase. But like it or not, many users have moved on to a better Twitter and that's called FriendFeed ;) - Muthu Ramadoss
Replies, privacy, great UI, fast loading, SMS, command line interface, spam control... just for starters... this is why Twitter is still king - Cait
I think it's still because everyone is still on Twitter, and people get replies easily. None of the other networks have that as much. Twitter is still where the action is, despite all it's downtime and technical issues. People have built up quite big communities there too, so are reluctant to leave easily I think. - jjprojects
The only thing wrong with twitter is it's up time. We all like the service, and the API. If they just solved the DB problems, twitter would be near perfect. - Brian Norwood
It's an interesting theory and it is reasonable. But over the long run I think it has more to do with the individual reader's tendencies than the blogger's behaviour.
I've tried to describe my commenting tendencies here: http://www.sheysmith.com/2008/...
Of course, this only matters if you care where the comments are made; which I don't. :) - Shey
In my case, if I'm mobile, it's much easier to comment on FriendFeed (via fftogo). - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
I don't think Direct Tweeting anyone to pitch your idea is a good idea :) - Chacha via twhirl
If you have a good product, why not have a public conversation about it? Not only will you have a better chance of Scoble giving a good response, but you're going to be spreading the word to a TON of bloggers, internet entrepreneurs, and early adopters that subscribe to Scoble. Don't be SECRETIVE. - Ben Parr
SUMMARY: Any PR person still pitching Robert Scoble via direct messages on Twitter should be fired.Scoble more than any other influential in the media has made it painfully clear how he would like to be pitched... - Christian Anderson
I don't see why we have to pitch to anyone. Just start up a conversation on FriendFeed and get some people interested in it - Chacha via twhirl
Robert: how best would you suggest someone pitch you via FF? - Jason Goldberg
@chacha | it depends on who your audience is. Not every media outlet is represented on FriendFeed. If you want to reach the readers of the Sunday New York Times, or John Markoff, or Walt Mossberg, etc, you will have to approach them directly. - Christian Anderson
@Jasongoldberg | let me channel Scoble for a minute, “OK, if you’re a PR person, and you’re on FriendFeed, leave your name, URL, and a short pitch for what you’d like me to know about. Stowe Boyd calls this a ‘twitpitch.’ Since you have more words here on FriendFeed, and because things are put into threads, it’s better to pitch me here than on Twitter. “-Robert Scoble - Christian Anderson
are you going to disclose the amount? :) - Timo Heuer
Vezquex my blog is listed twice? One may be a twitter stream. To my knowledge it's only listed once. - Jeremiah Owyang
Timo I really don't think that person was serious. I asked for enough for me to not work for a few years - Jeremiah Owyang
Your blog does seem to be listed twice in your profile (FF that is) - Brian Sullivan
It was listed twice, I'm not sure how that happened, I removed the dupe. Thanks for letting me know. - Jeremiah Owyang
take the money and run, their foolish mistake if they don't include you in the deal - clarke
I'm pretty sure you could sell the blog, and then start an online show/podcast and be living pretty damn well. - Ben Parr
Blogs are personal, so what are you selling ?? your past content or throwing your readers under the bus ?? - Peter Dawson
Peter, I think he just wants my domain. Quite frankly, the terms were not clear. I'd just start another blog, readers would come. (this is already my second URL) - Jeremiah Owyang
that's weird. ask me if he'll buy interactiveartists.com - Ryan
Jeremy, only the domian - must be some SEO /SEM strategy :)- sale sale . as high as they will go. but make sure that you get 30day handover period to notify your userland :)- yeah take their money and run .. LOL - Peter Dawson
Weird, you are the blog - if they take it over, what are they going to do with it? - Marshall Sponder
