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New Draft of VoiceXML v3 released yesterday adding voice biometrics support - http://blogs.voxeo.com/speakin...
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Most likely to succeed in mobile: Aloqa - http://www.viddler.com/explore...
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That is a very neat app. It will be useful in places you do not know, but also, as it pushes updates, in places you do know as well. Definitely a must-have app for Android!
- Steve Farnworth
Seems like a bit of work to set all the channels, the settings for each friend, etc. - is there an app that would know all your preferences and apply them for you? Or is that one's wife?
- tom matrullo
It comes with a few default ones, but you need to get your own feeds based on your preferences. Did you watch the video?
- Robert Scoble
Tom: it's not much work. Did you watch the video?
- Robert Scoble
It all looks very intuitive. Tell you what, it would be killer on something like a hotel kiosk for users without smartphones.
- Steve Farnworth
Robert - I was thinking of you and 400 friends - each one requiring a specific setting. I'm nearly through the vid - it''s very rich - love the idea of having job info from CL coming in. Also, fantastic for GPS, no?
- tom matrullo
Desideratum: an app that would say "here there are no Starbuckses"
- tom matrullo
just watched the video at the gym. I wonder why he said he wasn't allowed to say that he was working on the iphone version? Then he said it was obvsiouly coming to iphone but he couldn't officially say it was. That was a bit odd.
- Mark
Mark: yeah that was a PR plan being exposed. Companies want to be able to give TechCrunch exclusives.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Very smart idea and nice interview! Shall be interesting to see if it picks up. Might be too much for the average app user addicted to his 101 latest app games?
- Antonella Stellacci
kinlan Posted a FriendBoo: Mon Jul 27 14:37:07 2009
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"Paul Rawlins, make be a brew" reminds me of the first words Alexander Graham Bell spoke on the phone, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you."
- Charlie Barone
Don't know what a "Boo" is? Ask Mr. Alexander Graham Bell!
- Charlie Barone
I was planning the first message to be "Ahoy hoy" but I said test I think :)
- Paul Kinlan
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sweet - you can post a boo from where you are located (when the iphone app comes out).
- Paul Kinlan
our friendboo new iphone app is gonna be awesome :)
- Paul Rawlings
mikendenise1 Posted a FriendBoo: Sat Jul 25 21:42:01 2009
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Exclusive. Building43 is first site to use JS-Kit's real time commenting engine, Echo. Watch video and try it here: http://www.building43.com/videos...
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Pros? Real time comments. Aggregation of comments about your content from social networks.
- Robert Scoble
Cons? Noise. Also FriendFeed's real time comments not yet integrated (they promise those to come "soon").
- Robert Scoble
Checking it out via Friendfeed... this comment should just automagically show up, yes? EDIT: Oh, grunnocks. Should've RTFP in my haste to go 'first'.
- John Field
We sit down for a video with Khris Loux, CEO, where he explains how this will change comments for bloggers and other publishers and we also talk about the impact this could have.
- Robert Scoble
Keep us posted on how you like it. Looking forward to see Echo in action.
- Louis Gray
John: unfortunately not yet. They are working on FriendFeed comment integration. That will take a few more weeks.
- Robert Scoble
Louis: Building43 has Echo running now so you can comment there and try it.
- Robert Scoble
How does it compare to disqus?
- andy brudtkuhl
Thanks Scoble. Yeah, shouldn't have been so itchy-fingered.
- John Field
andy: Disqus isn't real time. Disqus looks old. On the other hand, I think JS-Kit needs to come up with more ways to control noise.
- Robert Scoble
Did I hear Scoble say... noise? What day is it?
- Bwana ☠
Oh, I've always been concerned about noise. I'm just less adverse to it than other people.
- Robert Scoble
Nice concept, but appears to be very very alpha.
- Daniel Sims
Daniel: when you're the first everyone gets to see the bugs. Yeah, there are a few. I'm sure they will get fixed in real time now there is some real load on the page.
- Robert Scoble
There seems to be some glitches that just turned up - we're on it :)
- Chris Saad
fyi in ie7 the b43 site (home and story pages) takes a very long time to load and basically "freezes" for a bit before finishing loading. it seems to stick on the echo piece from what i can tell.
- Allen Stern
BTW we are starting to use GetSatisfaction for support - would love feedback here too: http://getsatisfaction.com/jskit
- Chris Saad
Haha, my friend, you forget: You're using IE7. XD
- Sam Goldfield
sam - guess what - i try to live like a normal average internet user - helps me when i review services, provide consulting and run my startup - if you live like an early adopter geek but hope to reach the mainstream with your service, ur mistaken :)
- Allen Stern
Oh, no, I totally understand. I'm an early adopter in nature, but if I'm testing something I'll always check cross-compatability and loading times. For extra comfort, I test my projects in my DS web browser. :D
- Sam Goldfield
I want.
- Bwana ☠
Bwana: To get Echo, go here and click "Reserve Now" http://js-kit.com/echo/
- khrisloux
Did that on day 1 :)
- Bwana ☠
Allen: in that case, how's IE6 working out for you? :-)
- Robert Scoble
It takes a long time to load and the authentication is at the top, so you have to scroll up to find it with a Flock browser.
- Eric Logan
I'm not so sure I like the idea of comments from noisy environments (ala Digg, Reddit) appearing with the content generating them. On the other hand, seeing who's talking about the content on Facebook or Twitter or FriendFeed would be fine. There's gotta be some real good noise filtering there for this to work well. Threading too, in other to keep the conversations from multiple sources together and sane.
- Otto
(i am watching the video next) But - how is it more "real time" than disqus?
- andy brudtkuhl
I've never felt that Disqus was real-time by any means, although it probably depends on the site where it's implemented. Echo seems to be on par with FriendFeed for "real-timeness", for what it's worth.
- Tyson Key
Rob, beg/borrow/steal a Google Wave sandbox account. This stands a chance of changing how comments are gather/left. Been using it for a week now and it's quite a mind-bender. Can't wait for it to go public and embed on sites/blogs etc. For an example see here: http://blog-wave.appspot.com/dmcglad...
- David Ing
Hi Guys, we are just testing a new service built on friendfeed and our vooices.us platform, it is an micro-podcasting service called FriendBoo - http://www.friendboo.com/ - we would love it if you could try it out and let us know what you think and how we can improve the service.
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it is also one of the first services after http://ff.amplifeeder.com to use friendfeeds oauth services
- Paul Kinlan
Just fixed a bug with it too - sorry my fault.
- Paul Kinlan
does the service work for people outside the US and UK ?
- Wang Yip
If you can use Skype out it should work, we will be introducing SIP support soon for VOIP
- Paul Kinlan
It is streaming from our server
- Paul Kinlan
cool that is good to know, I only learn't about the limit today
- Paul Kinlan
Hi Sean, I will look into it, it shouldn't be repeating after the tone and it shouldn't be a male voice
- Paul Kinlan
Ok I tried it, its kind of hard to understand the person in the beginning,
- Kim Landwehr
We will most like get some professional voice talent to record our prompts for us
- Paul Kinlan
My feedback ~ http://ff.im/5u4Bk ;)
- CannonGod
Need to be able to playback items via the iPhone web app for ff. Guess that will need to take place on ff's side.
- tomit
Sure, it is the lack of flash on the iphone, we do store the mp3 and link to it on our site.
- Paul Kinlan
is that an official "sign in with friendfeed" button or something you guys just put together?
- chrisofspades
Friendfeed made that button, so I think it is the official one for now.
- Paul Kinlan
from email
good to know.
- chrisofspades
Maybe include a link to your site where we can get to the mp3 link from the iPhone interface.
- tomit
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Google releases 20k+ lines of Wave Protocol code and Instructions. First step towards your own version of Wave. – The Next Web - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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Man, i can't wait to see other implementations over the coming months
- Zee.
Does that mean FriendFeed Wave Robot/Gadget is around the corner?
- Charbax
The question is, will other Wave servers be able to communicate with Google's Wave sandbox? If so, could someone else open up public access before Sept. 30?
- Dave
My Friendboo recording. Not worth listening to. But the tech is cool.
Kol Tregaskes, sean andersen, Harold Cabezas and 17 other people liked this
That is cool but we have had this before with Cinch from Blogtalkradio.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
How is this different from Utterli?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
...oh yeah, Utterli, Utterz, forgot all about that...
- .LAG liked that
Good quality, remind me what the use case is?
- Buzz Bruggeman
What's the difference between this and AudioBoo? Oh, Btw, Robert, I couldn't find the NRU app on the app store. Do you know if its coming soon?
- Stephen Pickering
Hmmm. Liking the transcription.
- sarah browne
it is different from audioboo in that we are a service built upon Friendfeed, we are trying to push new content on to Friendfeed and allow people to easily disseminate their messages through what is very aswesome site (FriendFeed) - you get a heck load of meta data with friendfeed, such as likes and comments and we are planning to take advantage of that soon.
- Paul Kinlan
Utterli dial-in doesn't work from the UK any more Rasheen.
- alison gow
We didn't know about cinch, but it seems that works by posting the audio file via email, which there is a restriction on friendfeed about how many you can do, this uses the new FriendFeed API directly (which although it doesn't mean much) allows us to do some pretty cool stuff.
- Paul Kinlan
And we hope to be super simple - using the sign-in with oauth you don't have to do anything to get started, all you do is dial in and leave your message :)
- Paul Kinlan
And we are also trying to use this group as a distribution mechanism.
- Paul Kinlan
bgolubapi Posted a FriendBoo: Tue Jul 21 00:26:33 2009
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Seriously great job. Congrats!
- Benjamin Golub
cheers. glad you like it
- Paul Rawlings
FriendBoo: Mon Jul 20 23:02:56 2009
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Obviously FriendBoo is still in development, so consider the following friendly critique:
- CannonGod
Sound Quality - okay, phones aren't the best to record with but comparably this wasn't the best. I do like a phone-quality message, just the sampling was way too low. For a good phone quality, look towards iPadio.
- CannonGod
Ease of Use - Very happy with calling in and entering PIN. Also the added advantage that any calls ended/disconnected are not recorded. This is good :)
- CannonGod
Cool we were debating on where or not to send all send the recorded message regardless... we chose not to send it in the end. :)
- Paul Kinlan
Social Networking - Obviously this is a service designed for FriendFeed users. I can have it post out to my Twitter through my standard FF settings, however it suffers the same of iPadio which is not being able to title your posts. Now while iPadio lets you change the default of your post, I would expect the creators of Vooices.us to allow me to verbally title my FriendBoo post. That would be rad as no-one yet does this! :)
- CannonGod
Emailing Audio In - I've been using the Voice Memo app on my iPhone and emailing in updates to my Posterous account. It would be nice if there was an option to do this here, with the possibility of a higher bit rate quality on recording. This would also allow me to title my post other than the default.
- CannonGod
FriendFeed Connectivity - I would like some control over where my posts can be sent, eg. Groups. This could be achieved if there was emailing options. This could also allow me to attach an image with my recording? That would be sweet :)
- CannonGod
Cool so you would have two audio prompts, one for the title and one for the body?
- Paul Kinlan
Conclusion - While I've mentioned using email a lot, that's only because it's easiest and why everyone else has done it. But as you guys have built a voice recognition system you should play to it's advantages and have it control any aspect I would consider typing. But to keep things still phone-based might I suggest allowing one to set up triggers using the keypad, i.e. post to a certain group - press 1# at end of call? I'm sure you guys are smart enough so you've probably considered most of these options.
- CannonGod
@Paul: Something like that, so only the title is converted to text. You may also want to consider converting the whole dang thing to text and posting that as a comment (or series of comments) and get the jump on AudioBoo doing audio transcribing with SpinVox ;)
- CannonGod
sure we need to workout what extra little features might make it in we were thinking of being able to set up tags but I like the groups idea more... not sure about transcription - spinvox isn't exactly cheap
- Paul Kinlan
Probably better then if it's just the title that's transcribed. I know SpinVox allow a limited amount of free transcribing of about a minute, enough for a title.
- CannonGod
Ever wanted to micro-podcast to your FriendFeed? Try FriendBoo! – The Next Web - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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We are looking for some testers of http://www.friendboo.com/ FriendBoo is a micro-podcasting tool build for FriendFeed - we have a UK and US inbound number and we are really keen to get people testing it in the real world so that we can make the UX super smooth.
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Can I try it Paul? I'm always keen to try new ways of audio-breaking news via social networks and this sounds cool :)
- alison gow
Sure thing, just visit http://www.friendboo.com click Login and it should tell you how to work after that - if it doesn't then it is a bug and I will try and fix it asap :)
- Paul Kinlan
It will auto post to our friendfeed group as well. http://friendfeed.com/friendb...
- Paul Kinlan
I'll definitely give this a try again later :)
- CannonGod
Jake: Cool, we would love the feedback
- Paul Rawlings
Paul, I'd definitely like to give it a spin. Off to check out the site...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I would be glad to help as well. Enjoy me a good beta testing.
- Cody Heitschmidt
FFing: cool just log in and follow the instructions - if any of it doesn't work give me a shout.
- Paul Kinlan
Cody: excellent, if you login and spot any problems I am all ears :) spotted some issues already.
- Paul Kinlan
Just one thing, if Caller ID is withheld we can't hook it up to your account so you won't be able to use it.
- Paul Kinlan
Paul, seemed to work seamlessly for me. Few "noob" notes. 1. I am an idiot and tried to dial the zeros before the country code, I know I am an idiot but why put the zeros there. 2. It would be great if the robot english lady just told me to hung up once I am done, other than that seems sweet.
- Cody Heitschmidt
Cody: thanks, To be honest, I didn't know if the number should use 00 or not. So should the number be 14153764128?
- Paul Kinlan
thats what worked for me!! (no zeros worked for me!) (zeros didnt!)
- Cody Heitschmidt
Cool just updating the page now :) - thanks
- Paul Kinlan
from email
Fwd: FriendFeed API v2: Real-time, OAuth, file attachments, and more - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009... (via http://friendfeed.com/friendf...)
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Does this mean OAuth is live now?
- Jesse Stay
OAuth is live!
- Benjamin Golub
Yay! You guys are too fast - I'm not finished yet! :-)
- Jesse Stay
Let me know as soon as you guys have an "official" sign in button I can use.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: we definitely will, I'll get some of the more artistic FriendFeed developers (read: Bret) on it right away
- Benjamin Golub
I think I can at least have a very simple version working in the next week if you guys have that.
- Jesse Stay
Of course, assuming Twitter doesn't break my entire app again. :-)
- Jesse Stay
any hints on the non-web oauth flow?
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Mike: non-web OAuth flow is coming but not available yet
- Benjamin Golub
you just got my hopes up when you showed a curl command line above
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
There is also a twitter group at http://groups.twollo.com/group... where you can follow everyone who is interested in vooices.
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YouTube - Google Voice: Demo - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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The launch of a service like Google Voice is overdue. There's great open source convergent technology to control phone calls for some time, but no one serious has put a great service out there for free. I just wonder when Google Voice will be available in Brazil.
- Arnaldo M Pereira
I'm also hoping that Google Voice will come to Mexico anytime soon, but I totally understand that phone companies will be against it. I agree with you that is long overdue.
- Diego Espinoza V.
Telcos already have some issues to deal with, a service like Google Voice is just another (big or not). They'll most likely make deals with these phone service providers, another race, between telcos, to see which one gets more traffic.
- Arnaldo M Pereira
Very nice, coming from Google and their past videos.
- Zachary TG
Clark: If I had a Google Voice number, I'd still keep my texting plan, because like you said, maybe some companies will start to complain about GV.
- Diego Espinoza V.
The telcos are probably partnering with Google, they still have to route the traffic anyway.
- Arnaldo M Pereira
But how do you feel having your voice going through Google as well, shortly they will send you ads based on the content of your call.
- Roni Segoly
Great run through of the basics around Google Voice. I use it primarily as a disposable number for telemarketers et. al.
- sean808080
I hope it will become available in the EU soon.
- Șerban Dragoș
Roni Segoly: That's a good point, did you read the usage policy and the legal stuff yet?
- Arnaldo M Pereira
There’s no revenge like a woman scorned… - http://www.zee.me/blog...
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maybe shouldn't have spent the joint-savings and just taken it?
- John Wang
I'd give it at least 30% odds that this is a fake and part of some kind of viral marketing campaign
- Davis Freeberg
LoL
- Amir
I'd agree with Davis. Probably part of a scheme.
- Ethan
Well known viral marketing campaign. Check this blog post from 2 years ago: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax...
- Stephen Mack
Davis - I'd say 50-50 odds. At least.
- Andrew C
I'd go with 0.001% chance of being genuine.
- Stephen Mack
its real, i read about it when it occured, :(
- chaz2b
Chaz, what do you say about the same billboard appearing in different cities across the world?
- Stephen Mack
many femmes scorned?
- chaz2b
Heh! So they all happened to be married to Steven and use the same wording?
- Stephen Mack
I find viral marketing ineffective. For instance in this case I don't know what they are marketing nor do a care.
- Geoff Schultz
according to chaz - its real
- Zee.
That's hilarious. I love Fffffound.com
- Carrie
Digging around a bit more, commenters at http://adland.tv/content... cite a Gawker claim that it was for a CourtTV show called Parco PI. The blogger behind the billboard, thatgirlEmily (http://thatgirlemily.blogspot.com/ -- last updated in July of 2006), mentions Parco by name. Case closed.
- Stephen Mack
nice find Stephen
- Zee.
I drilled Emily a few times...
- Outsanity
Wow!
- .LAG liked that
Outsanity ...so, you mean: you're Steven? j/k
- .LAG liked that
>>>Roger L. Sizemore Worst insult of the day - "Your dick went straight to DVD."
- Russellreno
Almost a tweet
- Mo Kargas
seems i could just go on, just cause this one billboard was viral, dont mean it hasnt been done, :(
- chaz2b
I don't believe the daily mail and flatheadbeacon ones are real either. You're right it's possible that it's been done. I just find it very unlikely, given the cost. Why pay that much on revenge when you could just take the money?
- Stephen Mack
Haha! :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Some1 just told me people are "copying" my Tweets. Reply: it's not copying, it's retweeting & I LOVE it! http://mashable.com/2009...
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Paint that turns walls (or any surface) into a whiteboard - http://www.zee.me/blog...
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Cool
- Kevin J Hatton
Very cool product. Would have been nice if they were clearer about what the product actually is on the home page - had to dig thru to the products page to know that it was a solvent you apply to a surface. Wasn't sure if the product was a solvent/coating or if it was in the marker. I would buy this.
- Kamath (नमः)
This product has been around for awhile, right? I could have sworn I've seen this stuff in non-web media.
- Zach Landes
Zach, yeah I'm sure but very cool! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Oh, definitely Kol. If I were building one of those trendy silicon valley offices (kinda like the one in the photo...)I'd totally have to add this.
- Zach Landes
Or if I were a parent of a 3 year old. My sis & her husband just bought a house. They could so use this given my niece's affinity for crayons.
- Kamath (नमः)
the walls in the study rooms of our new library are like this.
- Marie drinks champagne
nice! One of the walls of our conference room is coated with a material that makes it a whiteboard as well. Very handy
- Tamara
It's uncomfortable while drawing in the conner
- Tony
does it smell good? the paint.
- Carolyn Chan
When I'm next due for a paint job around the house, I will definitely look at getting this in the office.
- Diego Barros
I really want this for my office!
- Michele Lorito-Chase
I was looking at this just yesterday for the room we'll be homeschooling in. I'm excited to try it.
- Heather Solos
Ironically, I just finished making a homemade white board with clear acrylic and some hardboard and some woodworking. If only I had know, I could saved a lot of work....
- Jim
This is so cool. I was actually talking with someone yesterday about having a room with whiteboard in my house. So this was very useful. THanks!
- *Tiffany Diamond*
*drools*
- Colby
just painted my dd's room with chalkboard paint. we're a little behind.
- kelly
GOTTA get me some for my office!! link to order? Zee U mightAs Well make a few on this! *giggle*
- Arleen Boyd
@Arleen If i had known there'd be this big a response.. :P
- Zee.
I wonder what happens if you paint this stuff on top of anti-vandal paint?
- Slappy Line
Want!
- Rick Cogley
Just wait til the late 2010s, when nanotechnologically-based paints appear. You will be able to paint computer screens onto any surface in your home.
- J. D. Ebberly
I wonder how it compares with this one, which is 8x cheaper http://www.ronshomeandhardware.com/Product...
- David Lynch
Wow, I just saw something stealth coming out at TechCrunch's real time Crunchup on Friday that's going to bring blogging back. Big time.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/real-ti... is the CrunchUp. Stick around for the after lunch session. Very cool.
- Robert Scoble
i thought rubel said blogging was dead? :)
- Allen Stern
Do Tell!
- Bill Heslin
Allen: Steve Rubel will bring his blog back after Friday.
- Robert Scoble
wow nice
- Allen Stern
Bill: I can't tell, agreed to an embargo, but you're already getting a preview. Just think about your blog now (or mine). :-)
- Robert Scoble
Oh shoot..this is Real time web..can't wait till Friday
- Bill Heslin
Blogging was dead?
- Ara Pehlivanian
Real Time is where it's at.
- Robert Scoble
too bad sites like mine can't be ready to post about it :(
- Allen Stern
Ara: have I blogged this week? If I had what is coming on Friday I would blog a lot more.
- Robert Scoble
Uhmmm tablet tablet...
- Francisco Espinoza
FriendFeed Pro?
- Chris Saad
<pops thread out>
- CAJ, somewhere else
Allen: embargoes suck. I know. But you should be one of the first sites to use this.
- Robert Scoble
FriendFeed Pro....oh no please :S
- Francisco Espinoza
i dont even have an embargo robert - oh well, no worries
- Allen Stern
Shhh...nobody tell Steve Rubel.
- Judd6149
Oooooh! like that Chris...FF Pro
- Bill Heslin
Chris: no. Not FriendFeed Pro. Although if FriendFeed were smart they'd buy the company after Friday.
- Robert Scoble
Data Portability Exporter 1.0 ? :-P
- Allen Stern
blogging never died. Some things make it easier and better. http://posterous.com
- Dj Skunk Diesel
Oh your bad Robert...lol....
- Bill Heslin
Allen: there is a lot of data portability in what I saw, yes.
- Robert Scoble
i think Data Portability is the future :D </obvious statement>
- Chris Saad
Dj: it is going to be interesting to see how this changes people's approach to blogging and Tumblr/Posterous.
- Robert Scoble
Dj: it is going to be very interesting to talk with Steve Rubel on Friday afternoon after the demo.
- Robert Scoble
it's the first ever virtual blogging tool - you just imagine your posts and they appear!
- Allen Stern
Allen: I imagine that you appear and you do, how do you do that? :-)
- Robert Scoble
Another service of "tumblog"?
- Francisco Espinoza
He's funny like dat...lol...
- Bill Heslin
oh i just bought guy's package - i have hired a team of allen's - for example, i am the evening shift allen (allen2.1 internally) - the night allen arrives at 11pm (allen 4.2 internally)
- Allen Stern
Am I that far behind? Why is blogging dead, and by real time you are talking about more than live stream video?
- ASKJDOG
Hmmm. Sounds like FF benefits from this.
- Nick in Manila
Nick: FriendFeed might benefit, yes. JDOG: we are talking about real time text. Just like here.
- Robert Scoble
Allen: you are cracking me up. So fun! =)
- Miiko Mentz
from iPhone
miiko - sometimes we all need to smile, that's my job as Allen2.1
- Allen Stern
Allen: personally I like the morning shift better. Since I'm in London I'll go to sleep now and wait for him to show up.
- Robert Scoble
Got it: real time text stream = "blog." Blogging is dead; long live blogging!!
- Tom Guarriello
remember when techCrunch said they were gonna break embargoes... you should, too
- Marco
aah still in london! get off ff and have some fun
- Allen Stern
Allen: I was off FriendFeed all day!
- Robert Scoble
How can you bring something back that isn't gone. Have you seen the WordPress growth numbers? They have been very consistent and very impressive for many, many months.
- Missionary Broadcasting
Missionary: well, I have definitely left a lot of my blogging due to real time interactions like these, but I don't have page views to worry about.
- Robert Scoble
Now ur both making me laugh. Good times!
- Miiko Mentz
from iPhone
Can we mere mortals watch it online
- Mark
Mark: I don't know about video, but I'm sure that the second this gets announced it will be discussed on FriendFeed to death.
- Robert Scoble
miiko - be nice or i get out the voodoo doll!
- Allen Stern
Thanks Robert. I'm starting to "get it" just thinking how to implement this in my niche
- ASKJDOG
I just add a lot of this other stuff to the blogging I'm already doing. Most savvy bloggers are doing the same thing. They sort of all fit together in my world.
- Missionary Broadcasting
it's after 3am in London
- Ian May
somehow this feels like a test of the "tc50 and demo broadcast system" - im sure we will see more of these "oh hot damn i just saw x but i cant talk about it until y" posts come sept.
- Allen Stern
Allen, why do companies talk to people about products and then tell them they must tell no one about it? I mean, since no one can talk about it, no extra excitement is generated? I don't really get it
- Mark
Allen, gotta luv the voodoo doll. ;)
- Miiko Mentz
from iPhone
@Allen, to give the individual an opportunity to form an opinion and write a well thought out article when the service launches.
- Darren
Mark, tomorrow's event will be streamed live. Hopefully it all goes smoothly.
- Miiko Mentz
from iPhone
Mark - embargoes give writers a chance to test and play before the tool goes live - so the posts should be better than just press release copy - i rarely ever mention a product before it goes live - scoble likes to build excitement about what he sees. i just wish that more companies learned that excluisves are bad for startups
- Allen Stern
Thanks Allen
- Mark
Mark: PR people tell me they use embargoes so that they can brief a large number of people without pissing anyone off. If I wrote about this stealth company tonight, for instance, lots of other journalists would get pissed off at the company. Some, like TechCrunch, even refuse to write about companies if they aren't given equal access. It also, like Allen says, gives writers a chance to produce videos and test out products so they can write more authoritatively about them.
- Robert Scoble
So its largely to stop competing blogs, sites etc from complaining that Site X got earlier access than Site Y for example?
- Mark
Robert/Allen, well said. Mark, in theory, yes. But it doesn't always work out that way.
- Miiko Mentz
from iPhone
So what was all the fuss Arrington was making last year about embargoes? Didn't he say he would violate every single one?
- Mark
I can't wait to hear about it!
- Joshua M
Mark: Arrington just said he reserves the right to break embargoes when he wants. Usually if the company deals with him straight up he'll agree to the embargo. What I hate are companies that give some people special deals. Apple does this all the time, which is why I never go to Apple press conferences anymore.
- Robert Scoble
a good example of poor choices are YC startups - they go to tc/sent to tc/etc and miss so many more opportunities for coverage - works well for TC tho - they always get a HN frontpage.
- Allen Stern
Hint?
- Scott Williams
from BuddyFeed
scott - he said "after lunch" so check which startups are presenting after lunch lol
- Allen Stern
Notes like this really make me long to be in the Bay area. One day Sheryl and I will move there. It's our plan.
- Ken Camp
Thank you Backtype for bringing this to me. I can't wait to hear about whatever this is.
- Steve Rubel
Robert how will we know when this thing your talking about is public? How will you update us?
- Chris Saad
@Chris - you won't miss it. He will be on a unicorn that everyone is talking about. JK - looking forward to this
- Steve Rubel
@Steve haha true
- Chris Saad
Can't wait to hear more. I hope it's a tool to make it easy to aggregate content into blog posts -- that's what I've been wishing for lately. Sometimes I have up to ten browser tabs open to pull in all the urls, images, videos and quotes I want to include in a new blog post.
- Andy Kaplan-Myrth
cool ... buzz .... buzzz!!! :)
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
It will be interesting to see what it is. Maybe my guest bloggers will cover the story. I am on a worklife summer break! Blogger since '02.
- Martin Lindeskog
Robert Blogging has never gone away! Not in my book.
- Sandra Large
Scoble, are you referring to LazyFeed ?
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
We here at Posterous are looking forward to the announcement. Innovation is always great -- can't wait to see what's going down on Friday.
- Garry Tan
Sounds a lot like LazyFeed: http://www.louisgray.com/live...
- twitscoop
Just what we need!
- ZuDfunck
Lazyfeed sounds like a combo of feedly and backtype, with categories
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Blogging straight from my brain coming tomorrow! Hook me up!
- Mike Buechele
@Michael For the love of gods, don't invoke Zobzee!
- Sam Harrelson
All this is making me wish Friday comes sooner. For me it will be another 24 hours away as I presume @Scoble is referring to US PST.
- Vinko
Robert! U R such a TEASE! *giggle*
- Arleen Boyd
hmmm I wonder what this is....
- Marko Saric
I guess it's this: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... ... The WordPress Jabber client
- Marko Saric
No, the blog is not dead by any means http://lifestreamblog.com/should-... but Lifestreaming is almost a necessary component needed for supplementing them with the advent of real-time http://lifestreamblog.com/you-say...
- Mark Krynsky
so TC has come out with 300 invites to LazyFeed (which are sadly gone), any going here? :P
- Marlin Forbes
It's Friday. Who's the stealth company that's gonna "bring blogging back" and how are they gonna do so?
- Brad Williamson
According to the presenter, Echo is the service: http://js-kit.com/echo/
- Brandon Titus
Thanks Brandon ;-)
- Brad Williamson
I really don't like being forced to spam my tweetstream just to sign in for an Echo invite. I won't do it. Bad bad practice, guys. But fascinating service concept.
- Nick in Manila
I understand scoble's statement now. I was all ready to shift 97% of my publishing off my blog and onto platforms like FriendFeed till I just saw how Echo and the new Disqus features are enhancing the conversation on the blog. It's dragging me back.
- Nick in Manila
Glad to hear you will be blogging more Nick - FriendFeed and other services are fantastic for virality and discussions with your friends - We feel that Echo makes those services even MORE relevant while putting your blog back in the picture.
- Chris Saad
Chris - interesting. This certainly isn't an either/or thing. Well, not any longer. Heh.
- Nick in Manila
It rarely is :) Communication systems rarely go away - they only find their place
- Chris Saad
loling at "blogging is dead" comments
- Jeremiah Owyang
Just to confirm: you were referring to the pubsubhubbub demo at the real-time crunchup?
- DGentry
I wish I could let you all see @secretscoble without opening it up. I gotta figure that one out, because the Tweet stream there is magic!
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Happy 4th of July!
- Melissa Gonzales
Hey! Could you send me an invite?
- Tyler (Chacha)
Nope. I am only inviting people I've met face-to-face and who I want to follow. I'm already following you here on FriendFeed, though, which is even better.
- Robert Scoble
that makes complete sense... so after your jaunt across the ocean head over here to Hawaii :-)
- Crystal Clear
Isn't it a little rude to refer to hidden feeds? As they used to tell us at NSA, true secrets are those shared with no one.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Jack, it is very rude to talk about a secret group, but that's one of the things I'm studying too. Humans are fun to study. SEO types are going crazy over trying to get into this account, by the way.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, really, I'm just going to say this just once - repeatedly talking about your "secret feed" is ridiculous. It completely looks like an 11yo trying to grab attention and prove he's a "popular" kid. You admit it's completely rude to talk about hidden feeds, and yet you justify it because "I'm studying humans," which is another arrogant and incredibly rude thing to say (you do not refer to people as subjects, ever). Scoble, for someone with your accomplishments, I expected better character...
- Ben Parr
Just open it up, let us follow @SecretScoble, but refuse to follow us back, whats the big deal?
- Mark
They trade Scoble nudes like baseball cards in there. That's the word on the street.
- Geoff Schultz
I can see your use of the secretscoble account to be very simalar to my use if twitter. I have started to put a cap on the people I follow, rather than blindly following everyone back, about 60% of the people in my twitter stream I have met in person, and about 20% are people I hope to meet. I have found I start missing things important to me if I go over 450. I do respond to every...
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- Luke Kilpatrick
Ben: sorry, every Twitter company is studying Twitter's users. Every single damn one. If that's rude to do, then go postal on all the Twitter developers. Mark: it's a big deal because I want to talk with a very specific audience there, not with everyone. I am studying how that changes my writing, or what I want to do. In my research of how normal people use the Internet they want...
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- Robert Scoble
Ben: and how will this make me more popular? Or prove to others that I'm popular? You have some weird ideas of how to prove you're popular. James: my secret group. Gotta go, the black suburbans are here. :-)
- Robert Scoble
As a uk tax payer I'm helping to pay for your blogger holiday - can I get in ?
- Adrian
Adrian: no. It's like the Suggested User List. Only less fair.
- Robert Scoble
Hmmmm... I think I was following that account on my old @freddavis account... another hassle with Twitter never giving me my account back... add me as @fucktwitter, or just follow me here ;-)
- Fred Davis
So in other words, you're finally experimenting with "the friends are the filter"... you know, the method that you were absolutely insistent wasn't as good as "follow everyone" a while ago? I'm not going to say "I told you so" but... I told you so :)
- Ian Betteridge
Great friends can be the best filters and can allow you to get a much cleaner stream of what's happening than following everyone - same story with RSS feeds - I think Ian is quite right, but maybe you are onto something different Robert...
- Robin Good
Robin, I think we're actually both right: a lot depends on what you're looking to use your feed for. Robert uses his quite differently to the way that I use it. I don't care about 99.99% of the stuff which comes up enough to need to know about it *right now* - Michael Jackson's death being a classic example. But there are certain things that I do want to know about now, and those tend to be the kinds of things that friends would pass on.
- Ian Betteridge
Robert, you could extend the walled garden concept and have an invite only blog, or paid access (that's one way to find your dedicated fans). I don't think that form of community conflicts with open formats either. Both have strengths and advantages. It behooves us to understand and interact with specific communities within both. I prefer the open type due to the nonexclusivity. For...
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- Mark Essel
from iPhone
You could do a quick mashup on your site that could authenticate with twitter and show the home feed for @secretscoble on that page to everyone, without them having to join. Couple of issues with that, though. It would also show tweets from people whom @secretscoble follows who otherwise have protected feeds. Also, basic HTTP authentication b/w your server and Twitter - not very secure.
- sameer
just take screen shots from time to time if you want to make a point about what you are seeing there. then get your friends' permission, and write a blog post about it.
- Laura Norvig
I would keep it that way scoble
- polou/indigo_bow
@secretscoble yes it is -
- Kevin Tunis
Scoble has the first premium Twitter account, because I am certain that people would pay a lot of money to become a follower.
- Bob Blunk
Bob Plunk have you been on the sauce? Just add the people he follows to your account and you have a replica of @SecretScoble. I promise you Robert is not saving all his pearls of wisdom for that twitter account. He isn't tweeting revelations that will change the world on his alternate account. It's just some experiment he is running on things such as how much attention people pay to invites.
- Mark
kewl and best ; Scoble rox lol ; http://www.youtube.com/nicomed... [WE LIVE IN PUBLIC-participant, Sundance Film Price, imdb at http://www.imdb.com/name... ] nicomedy aka ewing2001
- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
Until you figure it out, I'll use your SUL as a filter to find interesting streams I am not currently following.
- Alberto Saavedra
Twitter should just display posts from everyone you are following in a stream, just like they should allow anyone to sample someones followers. Basic.
- Steve Garfield
Theres no way to push the rss feed out to ff?
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
Yes you can let us see.. Read Friends "Timeline" section: http://support.autoblogged.com/forums...
- CantorJF
I dont want to see it anyway!!
- Matt G
Would you like to show that as a widget in your blog? I could code a wp plugin to do that.
- Diego Sana
Screenshots?
- Tyson Key
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Bribe him :)
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Steve, you qualified: http://louisgray.com/live... so go nuts. :)
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