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Yolanda, Oguz Serdar, A. T. and 60 other people liked this
Double cute!
- sergiooo
Great pic's!
- Dan Boggs
Is it just me, or are all baby clothes in either FriendFeed or Twitter colors? I was noticing in my baby boy's clothes today that I had half of web 2.0 in his wardrobe.
- Jesse Stay
:)
- mhmazidi
Wonderful photos. Congrats and enjoy!
- Larry Huffman
yeah it is all nice and happy now - give it 12 months and the inner demon comes out... Nice time though, when they are small and cute :) Enjoy it.
- Dave Gray
The best part at this age is when they fall asleep on your chest.
- Russellreno
Looks like Sarah is trying to push Matt away... saying "Hey dude! We are so out of the womb! Shove over!!"
- Yolanda
I wuv babies!
- Shey
that is really quite lovely, louis. those early days with you daughter will be with you two for the all your lives.
- ryan
from fftogo
awwww how adorable!
- Jessica
I think the baby sleeping on my chest thing was one of my favorite moments when we had small babies in our family. Thanks for sharing.
- Jeremy Kunz
Sweet pics.
- John McCrea
how adorable..your little ones are soooo cute.. thanks for sharing!
- MiaD
sooo cute!
- Sarah Perez
Bump.
- Louis Gray
Velociraptor is a fun word to say out loud. It makes my mouth happy.
Rachel Lea Fox, chaz2b, Svetlana Gladkova and 17 other people liked this
Try "diplodocus"
- Johnny
Oooooooo...that ranks up there with "salubrious."
- Mary Carmen
"Micropachycephalosaurus"
- Johnny
"Electrophoresis"
- Mary Carmen
"Jabberwocky"
- Johnny
I've always been partial to "Compact", for some reason.
- Victoria Plautia
"Phlegmatic"
- John (bird whisperer)
Pamplemousse!
- ωαřмaiden ☆TeamOtto☆
Quintessential
- tehKenny
Bulbous Bouffant http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- DJF
"Electro Wagnerian Emancipator" (courtesy of F. Zappa) - a three-pointer
- Kevin Johnson
"pelf"
- I like big Botts
"pilk" (if you've never seen Look Around You then this joke is lost)
- Mary Carmen
I like verisimilitude and paterfamilias
- Joe "Looptid" Pierce
"Cadillac". For bonus funs, sing it to the finale of the WIlliam Tell Overture: "Cadillac, cadillac, cadillac-lac-lac!"
- Deborah Fitchett
djf beat me to it.
- jambina
you know what the most fun word to say is though? Fuck!
- Joe "Looptid" Pierce
Today's t-shirt: http://shirt.woot.com/Blog...
- Neal Krummell
Try imitating one. Back in the day, my baby velociraptor impression (remember that scene from Jurassic Park) was legendary. *ponders making a video*
- Lo the Baker
Neal, thanks for that link, I will never stop laughing at "Mansfield Jurassic Park" :D
- Lo the Baker
nice. I like "archaeopteryx" also. I wrote a poem about that one once.
- Laura Norvig
*pre-orders Lo's video*
- Tinfoil 2.0
++DJF, I prefer without the video: http://www.wepsite.de/bulbous...
- Ruchira S. Datta
Surreptitious and supercilious are always fun to say. :-)
- Ladyepiphanybug
Someone I know has a son name Connor, and he once told me the kids middle name was Lingus. It took me a while to get it.
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
Oh, and I like to say "totalitarianism".
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
I can't think of any library-related words that are fun to say.
- Mary Carmen
Dewey decimal system?
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
Damn! Beat me to it! I was going to say DDS myself. Hmmm, Passe-partout?
- Ted Russ
collocation of distributed relatives
- Pete
Card Catalog. Those two words used to make my heart melt with the endless possibilities it had :D
- Colette
"Soliloquy."
- LB shining
Onomatopoeia
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
It's a sad commentary on the state of my writing abilities when I can fully and accurately express myself in 140 characters or less.
John (bird whisperer), Tinfoil 2.0, Roberto Bonini and 3 other people liked this
"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead." --Mark Twain. Short and simple isn't easy.
- Ayşe E.
My train of thought is now limited to 140 characters as well. God damn ADHD!
- Mike Nayyar
good to see the tech blogs continuing to move away from tech coverage to pageview coverage.
"Fatih !", Rah-PM 2012, Svetlana Gladkova and Louis Gray liked this
Identi.ca and the Power of Microbranded Communities - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
guruvan (Rob Nelson), Roney Smith, siavash and 19 other people liked this
Lots of good points. I feel so schizo moving between all these sites.
- Kevin Gamble
Kevin just remember that microblogging is a technology and not a service - whichever one of these services let you use that technology in the best way is probably your best choice IMO
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
bump!
- Jesse Stay
wow!
- Chris Heath
The good news? I finally saw a targeted Facebook ad worth clicking. The bad news? It was for a concert that took place on Oct. 29th. #fail
Bee, MiniMage, enterRUPPted, Alistair (alpinefolk) and 3 other people liked this
I see a number of concert and music related ones that fit me well, but usually it's for something I already know about or already own.
- Jandy
Facebook has started taunting me with cheap ways to call India and subscriptions to Linux Format. It knows me well.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Louis, it wasn't cross-marketed with a time machine? Weird.
- Micah
Yahoo Messenger 10 beta: A legitimate Skype rival? http://download.cnet.com/8301-20...
Bertrand Doux, Daniel Rowley, Svetlana Gladkova and Atul Arora liked this
The Friendfeedization Of Facebook - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
Iván Abrego, Daniel Rowley, Taras Brizitsky and 56 other people liked this
"As Facebook continues to roll out the full version of its new user profiles, it’s becoming clear that their primary goal isn’t, as they said in May, to simply create a cleaner user experience and allow developers to have more meaningful engagement points with users. It’s more about highlighting new content relevant to the user and fostering conversations about that content. And the result is that the Facebook home page looks an awful lot like the exponentially smaller activity stream aggregation service called Friendfeed."
- Louis Gray
from Bookmarklet
there is ONE thing Facebook cannot replicate from Friendfeed. Speed of execution. FriendFeed will always be better and will always be one step ahead
- Ouriel Ohayon
facebook who?
- Fred Grott
That would be the site with 60m monthly visitors Fred.
- Jamie
Coming from the other side, I’d like to see the Facebookization of Friendfeed (without sucking that is). FF is a great place for content and discussion, but not so much for community and social networking.
- Hao Chen
Facebook's largely self-contained, immersive "social" and "fun" walled garden works especially well for interpersonal relations, and the upcoming facelift improves on those same principles. I'm impressed. That said, it's too heavyweight for active group conversations. FF has far and away the most effective implementation of group discussions, especially around "the rest of the web". It's great to have both FB and FF, each optimized around their use cases.
- Amir Gharaat
The only thing I'm sure of is that Facebook will be unable to recommend the same 9 persons to add as friends to everyone - so hopefully we will still be able to choose exactly who we want to talk to.
- Svetlana Gladkova
Facebook is boring as hell.
- Thomas Hawk
@Thomas, LOL... I always crack up when I see, in any FB thread your "Facebook is boring".
- Juan Pablo González
Friendfeed lays it all out as a stream of posts and comments. It's like reading a newspaper. Just my style.
- david
Facebook has lost its mojo really fast, I winder if the same will happen to FriendFeed
- João Almeida
from twhirl
@Joao lost its mojo with who? The twittersphere? Facebook was doing just fine before and after they jumped on and off the bandwagon. According to FB, UUs and engagement are up every month.
- Jamie
Almeida: yeah, Facebook is growing as fast as ever and tons of "normal people" swear by it. Just because us early-adopter-inside-the-techie-bubble are over here playing on FriendFeed, don't assume that everyone else is. 110 million are on Facebook, maybe more by now. When I went to Israel all I heard was "Facebook, Facebook, Facebook." Same with my niece and lots of others here in Silicon Valley. Also, its event calendar brings tons more people than others.
- Robert Scoble
Communities are communities.
- Andrew Feinberg
Typical conversation with Real World Friends: "So I saw this post on Friend Feed..." "What's that?" "It's this website where it aggregates everything you do on various social networks" "Social Networks? Like..." "Flickr, Twitter, Yelp..." (Blank Stares) "Websites like Facebook are social.." "OHHH FACEBOOK.. That's the best site ever. *blah blah blah"
- George Smith
Alex Gawley: Seems that Facebook no longer will be closed. "This week facebook will also launch their Facebook Connect product, which is designed to let users get that data back out of Facebook." http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
- Alex Sauceda
but do you think the average FB user is going to use the "comment on news feed" feature? a quick scan of some of my heavy-user FB friends last week showed no comments on any news feed items, and then a couple days ago i noticed someone's status message was "I hate all these comment tags on facebook now"...
- Trent Olson
LOL @ Friendfeedization
- Bwana ☠
I love FF but all my non geeks friends and family are on Facebook. Seems that it works better for them.
- Alex Sauceda
Keep in mind, that 18 months ago you could not have had this conversation with anyone who was not 1) in the SV echo chamber or 2) in college. Web services start small and some inflect to a larger community and some don't.
- Christopher Sacca
My friends on FB go to Flickr for conversation. None of them are on FF. I add FF contacts in FB to view their bios.
- Russellreno
Louis - Agreed but I think the reason is more that they're trying to do an even better job with targeted ads (to keep the price in check) ... ala GMail. I find my Facebook list growing from my activity on Friendfeed. Hmm
- Charlie Anzman
Was the FriendFeed mini-feed on Facebook axed: no summary, just a note showing something was added? It's doing that for Feedheads too. Is this happening with others folks?
- Blake N. Cooper
Jim: Thanks! Does that mean that my friends would need to change this on their end to see more than 1 line? I have a lot of my friends who will stick to the default (i.e. will be overwhelmed by process for changing) and most likely will not see the content of my Google Reader Shared Items and FriendFeed activity. Sucks if that's the case. Thanks again.
- Blake N. Cooper
Jim: This is great, thanks!
- Blake N. Cooper
Jim: Is that option retaining the setting - I have it set to one line, short and full, but the new items still seem to default to one line.
- Richard Peat
Funny how one year later we are actually seeing the Facebookization of Friendfeed...
- Jean-Marc Liotier
Oh no, I just used the phrase "Googling for ______ in Google." To google has become a generic verb in my subconscious mind. What next, "Googling for ______ in Bing" ?
Svetlana Gladkova, Valley and i80and liked this
Google's gotta be careful, or else they'll lose their brand.
- i80and
I still use searching, but I could easily switch to using Googling.
- Brent - Yes I am
Dreaming the Impossible Dream? CancelAds Removes Display Ads from Online Content - http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwri...
CancelAds and Svetlana Gladkova liked this
Imagine a world where users aren't irritated by online ads, yet publishers still make money from their content. When you're done laughing, go check out CancelAds. The basic idea behind their not-so-revolutionary but certainly unheard-of monetization scheme is to have blog subscribers pay small amounts on a recurring basis to read ad-free content online. In a world where free content is a given and what's not free from publishers is made free by pirates, how could a concept like CancelAds survive? Read on to find out what the we and the CancelAds founders think. Sponsor To succeed, CancelAds needs to combat the dual threat of visual tune-out (users' eyes are trained to avoid ad areas and zero in on content) combined with apps such as TidyRead and Readability that eliminate advertising, whether publishers like it or not. According to the company's site, there is definitely a market for the service. These users are not in the majority, but the folks at CancelAds believe there are enough...
Why did Google announce Chrome OS this week? Well, of course, Microsoft has a big announcement coming on Monday (I'm embargoed).
Daniel Rowley, Bill Romanos, Charanjit and 200 other people liked this
It'll be interesting to discuss both announcements too, and what they mean for each other.
- Robert Scoble
I hope to see something good come out of this. Are they saying free or paid for the Chrome OS?
- Anthony Timberlake
*raises eyebrow* Interesting. I applaud more competition
- Mo Kargas
I'm intrigued!
- Daynah
Diego, no, it's one of Microsoft's primary businesses. Did you know Microsoft has 14 billion dollar businesses?
- Robert Scoble
Related to Microsoft's Gazelle browser? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13...
- Kiran Patchigolla
Microsoft isn't doing too bad lately.
- Eric Florenzano
cool, im thinking its a special version of windows 7 for netbooks?
- sean percival
Anthony: I'm sure it will be free.
- Robert Scoble
BingOS?
- imabonehead
imabonehead: no. :-) Microsoft isn't that disruptive.
- Robert Scoble
And that means Google Is doing well once again, doesn't it?
- Markingegno - Donato
from Android
The Chrome OS will be for netbooks and such for now. And is Microsoft announcing the Free One Care?
- Dylan Richardson
Bingo yes :)
- Kiran Patchigolla
*chuckles at imabonehead*
- Daynah
LOL BingOS! The startup sound will be Ballmer saying "BING!" like he did at AllThingsD conference.
- Paul Salzman
Bing-OS was his name-o!
- Daynah
Bingos <--- that was his name-o
- Micah
*high fives Daynah*
- Micah
An open source OS - how much stable will it be??
- Palak Mathur
Question is Robert, if you are not allowed to say, how on earth did Google find out?
- Technogran
Micah, we're on the same google brain wave tonight. :)
- Daynah
Ride the wave :D
- Micah
Sandra: it might just be coincidence. Or maybe they have great spies. Depends on your view of the world, huh?
- Robert Scoble
Microsoft is open-sourcing their code too??? Yeah, didn't think so. :)
- Josh Fraser
Josh: part of the Microsoft announcement on Monday runs on Google Chrome (and Firefox for that matter).
- Robert Scoble
Not all "open-sourcing" is created equal.
- Micah
Maybe Microsoft is making it's secret announcement this week cause they knew Google was about to announce?
- Alan W Silberberg
Thats real funny Josh .. Its like pulling teeth to get them to give a discount on anything.
- Dylan Richardson
Alan: maybe! It all depends on how you look at the world, doesn't it?
- Robert Scoble
Nice Cant Wait!
- James Hunter
It just seems to coincidental. Like President of Iran making big speech during MJ's funeral!
- Alan W Silberberg
Scoble the only MS announcement they could make that would blow me away is Windows 7 Early release.
- Dylan Richardson
Dylan: Microsoft has a few other impressive things up its sleeve.
- Robert Scoble
So the question is now that Google's making an OS, will Eric Schmidt resign from Apple's Board?
- Paul Salzman
It's all just ones and zeros. ;)
- Victor Panlilio
So, do we give Calacanis credit for calling a Google OS back in 2006? http://calacanis.com/2006...
- Mike Doeff
Sanat: insightful. Paul: Google makes a smart phone OS, and he hasn't resigned, so why would he now?
- Robert Scoble
Zune HD. Looks nice for the first time ever I'm thinking about it.
- Dylan Richardson
Google is talking about it's goals at this point. Isn't Intel trying a netbook OS too that boots fast? It'll be interesting to see which OS features win out here with different implementations. Is instant on to the browser the key or will some other feature shine? Fun times ahead, though really need to see things in action.
- Loren Heiny
from iPhone
Dylan: sorry, that is dead on arrival. They should have combined Zune with a cell phone.
- Robert Scoble
I got a screen photo here: http://ff.im/4WoVE, I don't have much comments yet due 2 that I am using it now, its not much of an announcement.
- polou/indigo_bow
Robert, Zune with a phone hmmm??? I hope ur rite as u said ur embargoed!
- polou/indigo_bow
Gazelle?
- carrotmadman6
MS does not have the Balls to take on the iPhone.
- Dylan Richardson
Wait for Monday. Nothing else to say.
- Frédéric Sidler
from iPhone
Robert, because they claim to excuse him from the part of the meetings related to iPhone...computer OS is arguably the biggest segment of Apple. I guess he can stick around for the hardware discussions. I know my argument is elementary, but maybe walking a line here?
- Paul Salzman
What was the last big hit new MS product?
- James Watters
But if they did that would be cool competition is always better for the consumer.
- Dylan Richardson
James: Xbox? Dynamics? Bing?
- Robert Scoble
Apple is not really what I will be looking at Android is the big boy here
- polou/indigo_bow
MS Office on the browser would also explain why GMail and Google Apps are finally out of Beta today too.
- Ron Schott
Xbox
- polou/indigo_bow
OH OH Project Natal is coming out!! lol j/k
- Dylan Richardson
Robert: Thanks, wasn't hating, just looking for organic momentum from products. Bungie was def a godsend to 360. Bing proved Seth Godin wrong which I greatly enjoyed.
- James Watters
@Robert Scoble: So I looked up Microsoft's last quater's financial report, Microsoft does indeed have a $14 billion business :)
- Long Zheng
Bing is nice I have to say. Here is how I use it .. If I want to Buy or shop a price I use Bing. If I need info its Google.
- Dylan Richardson
MS better fix the %$^#%@^ Gumblar hole first, it's apparently worse than Conficker -- http://rixstep.com/2...
- Victor Panlilio
MS also has ~6+ B in R&D, is it efficient?
- James Watters
Oh, really? When I get something on embargo...I don't write about getting it under embargo. Come on, Robert. You're better than that. Or at least I hope you are.
- Andrew Feinberg
I agree @travis, but google make it like a news
- polou/indigo_bow
James: it doesn't matter, a company like Microsoft needs a product pipeline to remain relevant. Research lets Microsoft remain relevant and on Monday you'll see a bit of how it does that.
- Robert Scoble
OK. Google Chrome OS. Netbook makers say Linux based Netbooks have high return rates. How will people react to a Netbook that only runs a browser? Linux has remained niche.
- Dileepa Prabhakar
Andrew: sometimes you have to take a risk. This is one of those times.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I will look forward to it. We ALL win when great software comes to the market. Almost nothing better in the world.
- James Watters
Do you all think GoogleOS will just boot up right into the browser? Browser will be in firmware?
- Paul Salzman
BTW, Robert, will Microsoft finally dump IE and develop a Webkit based browser? (Forget Gazelle. Yet another stupid Microsoft research project that will never successfully make it mainstream.)
- Dileepa Prabhakar
Paul: no highly unlikely.
- James Watters
Dileepa: I don't know the answer to that. But the demos on Monday (I have a bunch of video coming) were shown to me in Firefox. So maybe that's our answer right there.
- Robert Scoble
James: so you think it will sit on top of Linux or something? Or just be a new flavor of Linux?
- Paul Salzman
Linux flavor of Chrome, thus far not arrived yet
- polou/indigo_bow
Paul: I'd look at Android as a precursor and say yes its going to use a google refined linux kernel, and I believe the post even says a windowing system. I'll check TC again to be sure brb.
- James Watters
Paul: I bet there will be some customization of Linux underneath Google's Chrome OS. I'm intrigued and can't wait to see what they will do with it.
- Robert Scoble
Google says the software architecture will basically be the current Chrome browser running inside “a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel.” (quoting TC)
- James Watters
I can almost bet that its web based Microsoft Office with some nifty real-time collaboration features.
- sameer
Sameer - I agree. Explains cross-browser compatability
- Daniel Lazarides
from iPhone
"a new windowing system" leaves the door open for a greater level of abstraction away from the kernel for sure. Probably still with some access to files, devices, etc on the local hardware though which a browser alone would be a clumsy solution too.
- James Watters
If Microsoft's BIG announcements are Web based Office (already demo'ed and announced), Windows Azure RTW (nothing unexpected) or Windows 7 RTM (already announced to be announced!), there is nothing that's going to surprise people on Monday then.
- Dileepa Prabhakar
I think Wave might be integrated into the OS.
- Jayasimhan Masilamani
Dileepa: Windows7i -- the Cloud OS from MS
- Paul Salzman
Jaya: Like as a built in extension to the windowing system? Like IE and explorer?
- James Watters
@Alex Will they be able to match Open Source strategies as followed by Ubuntu,etc??
- Palak Mathur
just another rehashed disaster of windows in another marketing created packing
- Zac Bowling
Dileepa - They haven't talked much about collaboration using Office web. There was one OneNote demo that showed some realtime synchronization. I'm thinking more Wave-like realtime features.
- sameer
Zac: I'm going to believe Robert, but lets give him hell if this is marketing glossy! :)
- James Watters
Paul Salzman: Windows 7i with WGA! -- works only when accessed through IE when running on a WGA validated copy of Windows.
- Dileepa Prabhakar
Dileepa: that's it, we've called it! ;)
- Paul Salzman
Robert you managed to convert a complete google night into a complete MS night :)
- Kiran Patchigolla
James: it's been a while since I've felt compelled to do more than five videos at a Microsoft press conference. See ya on Monday.
- Robert Scoble
sameer: That will be mimicking existing Google Docs feature. Google Wave is at a completely different level and I am not sure if Microsoft is up to doing something like that.
- Dileepa Prabhakar
Till Monday it is, I'm thinking I'll even blog it.
- James Watters
Wave might act as the collaboration platform on the OS. But that leads to another question. Will the OS be tied to Google accounts for login?
- Jayasimhan Masilamani
Dileepa: Let's see, I think there's potential for implementation of realtime collaboration across the web based and desktop offerings of Office that could be of big mainstream impact. It's got to be something related to Office, Robert talks about the "$14 billion business" - The only other Microsoft business I know of that's that big is Windows.
- sameer
sameer: I said that Microsoft has 14 billion dollar businesses. Plural, not singular, but I also said it was one of Microsoft's primary businesses. That narrows it down a bit, yes.
- Robert Scoble
My guess is a MS hardware that will shake the netbook market!!
- Krishnan Subramanian
So that's a Win7 RTM announcement, combined with Web Office. If Web Office will be free to use, the combination of W7 Starter with Web Office will be a huge notebook hit.
- Kirill Petrovsky
If ChromeOS was meant to counter MS, then the logical MS announcement would be some kind of OS project, like maybe a combination of Microsoft Singularity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ) combined with Silverlight for NetBooks or mobiles.
- Ray Cromwell
MS Web Office for sure: Scoble said it runs on Chrome and Firefox and it's a multi billion business. Actually, MS Office accounted for 18-19B $ in 2008.
- Jérôme
I fear that if the tech side of their release if good (but whatever the pricing), Google Apps isn't ready for the fight.
- Jérôme
Microsoft announces the cloud OS? I'm still not sure about a Google OS though.
- Burcu Dogan
Web Office in Silverlight, together with a mobile version that means we get Silverlight on WinMo and maybe even IPhone would be a win for me
- Ian Blackburn
I cannot wait...:-) but I DO have a clue...
- Eric Denekamp
Lots of people suggesting Office-in-browser but if that were it why would Robert be under embargo given they've already announced it and demo'd it? I'm not saying it ISN'T Office-in-browser but if it is then something doesn't add up!
- Jamie
Good point Jamie - the two primary business in MS are Office and Windows (in terms of revenue anyway), so perhaps this is more to do with a Windows OS in the cloud? How would that look?
- Ian Blackburn
Midori perhaps? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Jamie
Initially, Google VS Live, Then Chrome Vs IE & Google Vs Bing, finally its Windows VS Chrome OS
- Michael_techie
Ummm... are they announcing an online version of MS Office like Google Docs?
- prolificdyslexic
that's why I do not subscribe to Scoble - too many comments on his articles, too much noise
- солнышок
I don't see any noise in here. Interesting conversation!
- Robert Scoble
The MS guy at Portland Cloud Camp said Azure was going to be released very, very <wink, wink> soon. #cloudcampPDX
- Gary Walter (gwalter)
@gwalter You’re maybe right. The front end would be MS Gazelle, and the back end would be Azure.
- Bram Pitoyo
Office Web Apps release to public beta is well overdue - first promised for end of 2008. If this is embargoed then it must involve something new. ScottGu hinted that Silverlight 4 was already in development. SL3 is released this Friday. So maybe SL4 will be released,in beta with a beta of Office Web Apps showing some SL4 features (like more AIR like features)..
- Joe Wood
It seems like "too late" and illogical for Microsoft to come-up with another vendor-lock-in type innovation and expect positive results. Microsoft is not run by daredevils nor wimps. The announcement Robert talking about might be about a web based productivity application suite, which is standards compliant and offers a familiar interface and workflow for people, thus easily adoptable and steal competitors' (G, Y!, Zoho, 37S, Adobe?, etc.) user base.
- Berk D. Demir
The thing thats got me shitting my pants over all this is Games. I need Windows to play all the latest Direct X 10 and 11 games. Linux is hopeless in that regard.
- Mark
Audience in here is mainly composed of technically inclined, early adopters. We feel comfortable with online apps and mainly ready to ditch (or already ditched) many offline applications in favor of our new toys. OTOH, that's a huge paradigm shift for the other majority of less technically inclined and incomparably bigger masses. Microsoft still have the power to lead masses, create...
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- Berk D. Demir
Interesting discussion! I vote for MS Office online !
- Krishnamoorthy
I commented in istartedsomething on Long Zheng theories with this list. so why not here after having read all of Scoble responses?: Safe Guesses (not crazy): 1.- Office Ensemble (Office Web Apps + Office Live Update) and a Office 2010 public CTP (the most likely one) 2.-Microsoft Online Services gets full release along with a full release of Windows Azure while one of the new Data...
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- Avatar X
from FriendFoo
i crammed a lot of guesses that may not have to do with the announcement so maybe robert could say warm or hot to the whole list without having to specify. :P
- Avatar X
I vaguely recollect listening to the GIllmor Gang in June/July 2008 where Robert said he'd just visited Microsoft Research and seen "an amazing new browser". If memory serves me correctly it was said in the context of mobile devices but who knows.....this may be another contender for Monday's announcement!
- Jamie
Anything related to Midori ? http://technologizer.com/2008...
- Krishnamoorthy
Microsoft has already made their counter-move to a Google OS. It's called Windows Azure. It'll serve apps to the Google OS with ease and MS will make money in the process. Yeah, I know today the money be nowhere near what the Windows OS makes, but while the Google OS is gaining traction as a desktop OS, Azure will be gaining traction as an app hosting platform for that very same Google OS and others.
- Jeff Weber
More spam news will come in. Azure, Mirot ha ha ha
- Michael_techie
just another social network (where the IE users might hang out)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Another huge innovation like renaming Bing?
- Burcu Dogan
Google is initially going after netbooks via a new OpenSource OS. If Microsoft's Next Big Thing is Azure then they are betting that a locked-in cloud-based OS will trump Google's move. It's gonna be VEHLEY INTELESTING to see this play out.
- J.D. Deutschendorf
launching online enabled MS Office, free and beta
- солнышок
I really hope it's not anything Silverlight related, some one is on crack if they think the end game is everything running in a plugin in a browser.
- Scott Kahler
Tease. Tease. :)
- Charlie Anzman
Robert, they'd better have more than a few "14 billion dollar" businesses. Their market cap is 200 billion for heaven's sake.
- Stephen Pickering
sorry, have to ask. did it make you cry? :)
- dannysullivan
does this mean google=novell?
- Eran Even-Kesef
Made the news onto electricpig your announcement!
- Alan (Giraffes)
Dr. Schmidt HAS to resign from the Apple board... too many conflicts of interest (iPhone v Android, Chrome OS v OS X, Chrome v Safari). What could he possibly be adding that can't be obtained through someone else?
- Gerald Buckley
pricing of Azure will definitily be one of the announcements; not the BIG one. Office online perhaps...
- Jeroen De Miranda
Very interesting indeed. Chrome OS sounds like a great companion to Windows on a netbook+ device, for those times when you do need instant web/email. Looking forward to your videos!
- Will Johnson
Since the event on monday is WPC I'm guessing that Steve Balmer will present MS view on future of the Enterprise and showing off some of what Ray Ozzie has been working on. Coming full circle with Azure (computing infrastructure), Mesh (powering collaboration), SilverLight (future of runtime enviroments on all platforms) and of course all of this software+services has to be powered by Windows Enterprise Servers on the back end.
- Daniel Chow
Also the new Office is the first application to launch under the above stack. Scoble, did I get anywhere close to any of the embargoed announcements? :)
- Daniel Chow
What do you think? How long will the Apple-Google Friendship last? http://friendfeed.com/applero...
- Hans Kainz
They are going to announce the release of IE 9 - the even worse with net standards addition.
- Bobby Griffith
Windows 7 Home/Business/Ultimate Netbook Edition. Each with different capabilities and things disabled for no reason other than to confuse users and make more money.
- Scott Koon
heh - i know now what the announcement is and i am not embargoed - i should make a post :)
- Allen Stern
Go for it, Allen! Inquiring minds want to know!
- Rudy Amid
Well if you do know, you owe it to your readers to report the news,
- Mark
Mark: sorry, I signed an embargo. That's the way these things go and I'm not willing to burn this relationship, sorry. You'll know on Monday. Matthew is exactly right. And even with Woodward and Burnstein, they played this game. You didn't know who Deep Throat was, even though that was news too.
- Robert Scoble
what announcement?
- kang
I didn't mean Robert should report it. I meant Allen Stern who commented he was not under an embargo. He knows it, he has no NDA, he should report it.
- Mark
RT Allen Stern "heh - i know now what the announcement is and i am not embargoed - i should make a post :)"
- Mark
I hope its not Gazelle. If it is I respect Robert for abiding by the embargo. It seems as though no one in tech abides by embargoes any more. If it is Gazelle, might as well discuss since it is all over the tech blogs already.
- Keith James Designs
As they keep it under the blanket till now! It should be software only thingy! speculations about xbox, zune phone etc are free to leave!
- Amir
It's not Gazelle. At least I don't think so, because I have no clue what Gazelle is. I'm off to find out.
- Robert Scoble
Ahh, nope, what I was thinking of is not Gazelle. But now that I see the rumors I wonder if Microsoft has more than one major announcement on Monday?
- Robert Scoble
My Guess: They enabled Live Mesh Web Desktop to run applications, So in future all applications are going to be hosted in Live Mesh
- Amir
maybe i want use chrome all day,,just for internet surfing
- qian
Hey Robert, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being an announcement that version 8.1 of IE includes a better spell-checker, and 10 being that Windows 8 is coming out in 2010 and is free, how many out of 10 is the announcement going to be in terms of having an impact?
- Mark
btw I have had this single chrome window open for about a week, and because each tab has its own process I don't get memory leaks like with firefox.
- Mark
Not sure to be honest
- Mark
Mark: that's hard to judge. I'd say 6.9 based on how you framed it.
- Robert Scoble
Is this something that will go over well on Wall Street?
- Michael Fidler
Well, today Microsoft announced the promotion of Steven Sinofsky to president of the Windows Division.
- imabonehead
Robert ur (face) a hit today in the news outlets: http://lifehacker.com/5310444...
- polou/indigo_bow
I hope Google comes up with a great OS. I have tried any different Linux versions on my netbook but have never found the perfect one. Looks like they have connected the right partners as well so I am very excited. 9 0ut 10 for me. This could change everything
- Asgeir
TechCrunch on Scoblelizer's drumroll: "Office In Cloud Comes Monday" http://bit.ly/18sKUe
- JimmyJet
it will be a sigh of release for people come to fear those massive, massive office purchase/downloads. still a pain for when you travel and have no access online though...
- Terry O'Fee
While Google's forays in the OS and office productivity arenas are great for consumer choice, are they playing w/ fire? Google's core revenue stream is search, which has a much lower switching cost than any of MS's multiple revenue streams: Client, Office, Server. It seems like the two are pitching for a protracted fight that could be costly to both. But in a battle of attrition, it seems to me that Google could lose $ faster than MS.
- lingb
Windows ME Ultimate?
- Michael Funk
Well, it's Monday, what is the announcement about?
- Sue - Friendfeed is best
MS is making Office apps online. Ala google apps. Boring.
- Rudy Amid
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- Allen Stern
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Generation Y
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lol
- Anna Haro
Yeah, but it's Generation X's fault that we have to look at all those "Y"s... We(they?) started it. (I get a little confused. I'm 30, so which side of the fence am I really on?)
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
:D I saw one of those today :P
- comix aka martha
ewwww
- Shey
Kamilah, I'm in the same boat. 31, and every definition says I fall between the X and Y cracks. Which, in light of this post, kinda grosses me out.
- FFing Enigma
LOLZ Tina. I guess it's the shadow effect of my parents being a little too young to be true Boomers. I'm a little too young to be Gen X
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Just missing a strange looking tattoo and you're there Shey
- Charlie Anzman
:) why y?
- FlyMeToTheMoon
from email
I thought Gen-Xers were older than Ys?
- Shey
Yes, Shey, what made you think otherwise?
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
According to that, I'm officially an Xer. Once again, I apologize on behalf of this entire generation for the saggy pants that refuse to go away. We though it was cute. Fun. Temporary.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I'm Generation Y. But my butt-crack is firmly concealed. Unless I'm at home...
- Shey
@Andrew Thanks your link
- FlyMeToTheMoon
from email
ahahahah
- Susan Beebe
darn kids...pull your britches up!!!!
- Stephanie Segel
lol true
- Will Higgins™
D:
- yasin ghasemi
XA x3
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Hahaha!
- Anne Bouey
I would hate to see Generation - ( )X( )
- Adam Helweh
lol@Adam
- Shey
heehee
- AJ Batac :)
My co-worker to a T...or Y.
- Jack&Cleo
Lol, this picture really describe our generation lol
- Moon
@Kamilah oops, I misunderstood what you were saying. Yes, you're right -- it's totally Gen X's fault.
- Shey
lol,,,
- Ashanti
I don't want to see the other side of that…
- Daniel Schildt
Idea for smarter service than selling followers: for 1000$, I'll tell you who to follow.
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I'm listening ;-) Where is your "how to use and get the best out of friendfeed" article?
- Graham Lawrence
This selling followers trend is certainly getting tiresome already but is not $1k a little too much? ;)
- Svetlana Gladkova
Matthew Really Loves His String Cheese. Can You Tell?
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Note also the FFundercats onesie under his Tux bib.
- Louis Gray
It looks like a three-legged octopus on his head! :D
- Rochelle
Photoshopped!
- Stephen Mack
No photoshop, Stephen. Only babyshopped.
- Louis Gray
That's pretty snazzy!
- Michael McKean
He looks like a banana.
- Tamar Weinberg
lol! How did it get in his hair? haha
- Daynah
I have a strange feeling he didn't place it there himself...
- Frankie Warren
Pictures! Thanks, Louis! (Why do Matthew, Sarah and Audrey turn this wannabe hard-ass, crusty-broad, circa-1977-ish feminist who isn't even done raising teens into some sort of puddle of pseudo auntie-granny type? Oh, that's right - I LOOOVE babies . . . .)
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
Take me to your leader. What? Oh, wrong planet. My bad. As you were.
- Josh Haley
These are the funniest pics Louis... someday, someday those poor kids are gonna scream, NO DAD, don't show THOSE pictures to my girlfriend... puuullleeeeeaaazzzzzzeeee!! LOL :)
- Susan Beebe
Ah yes! I see the FFundercats shirt under there now! :) FFUNDER-BABBY, HO!
- Josh Haley
Matthew, I have made visual confirmation of Sarah. She is in the near vicinity.
- Louis Gray
Was just doing some research. @britneyspears is shameless about mostly linking to her own site. Weak.
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The worst crime in the web world, really :)
- Svetlana Gladkova
I think people overuse the word epic.
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Epic tweet! :)
- Morton Fox
I know for a fact that I do.
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
Fail.
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
Man, can't get http://stopsayingepic.com/ to go along with http://stopsayingfail.com/ , http://stopsayingwin.com/ , and http://stopsayingstopsayingfail.com/
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Whoa........Epic
- Rah-PM 2012
UBER EPIC AWESOMESAUCE.
- Tamar Weinberg
Dang it, I got similar responses on Twitter. Sheesh. :)
- Cheryl Jones
from BuddyFeed
epic fail
- Will Higgins™
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Right when I thought GoDaddy's commercials couldn't possibly get worse, they manage to find a way to prove me wrong. Even if I hadn't had a bad experience with them in the past, I wouldn't do business with them sheerly on the basis of these crappy commercials.
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If they put half the effort into running their business as they do into their ads perhaps they wouldn't be so awful a host. I'll never recommend them.
- Jack&Cleo
Hrm. I haven't really had all that much trouble with Go-Daddy before and they've done alright by me in the couple of years I've been with them. Is it just how the company is being run or are there some issues that I'm just not privy to?
- Jonathan Hardesty
+47 Jack - thought they were shite as a host when I tried them a couple years back.
- Patrick Jordan
I've got hosting and domains through them and so far it's been a breeze. I wouldn't call their services great, but they've been adequate for my needs. The spam part is kind of lame, though, and I can't speak to the president's politics. Also, I agree about the commercials. They are quite teh sux0rz.
- Jonathan Hardesty
People who comment without reading a post drive me batty! Why should we care what u have to say when u didn't care to read what was written?
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So anyway, I was at the shops the other day, and I thought to myself: "You know, black just might actually be my favourite colour after all!"
- Tristan Seligmann
And tomorrow i'll get to see this girl again. finally! :D
- diego morelli
Bees and dogs can smell fear.
- SteVe C
I like bats too!
- Geoff Schultz {TF}
What's this about Monty Python now?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I could barely contain myself when I gleefully responded, "That's what SHE said!!!" Oh man, I was laughing so hard I was crying!
- caj needs a haircut
RTFT has already been ratified and may be used at will.
- Josh Haley
Nobody had ever suspected this was the case. In a weird way, she *was* successfully the reason why of it all.
- diego morelli
I completely disagree, wait... what was the question?
- Keith - @tsudo
Bridges of Madison County.
- Morton Fox
If I had to choose, I'd probably go with the light blue one. Yeah, definitely the light blue one.
- Morgan
NSFW picture! Gotta give some warning next time.
- ronin
I said NO!, but she just kept on coming.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Wow! Billy Mays just died. Anyone gonna tell me?
- Rudy Amid
I have to do laundry today and drop off my drycleaning.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
omg,hilarious!
- Sarah Perez
enough with twitter already!!!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Actually, according to Wikipedia, chocolate milk does come from brown cows. Who knew?!?
- Bette Cooper
Here's the source of my previous comment. http://friendfeed.com/joshhal...
- Josh Haley
Preach it Sarah!
- Mona Nomura
What's that song that's like, "Girls, who are boys, who like boys to be girls, who do boys like they're girls, who do girls, like they're boys. Always should be someone you really love" cuz I want to hear it
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
ROFLMAO!
- Bonnie Foster
Finding a !974 Chevy Camaro Is harder these days because of all the Drunk Idiots that totaled them when they first came out. Especially those with a big old 396 and a four speed - just an accident waiting to happen - IMHO.
- Brent - Yes I am
Dental Plan!
- Morton Fox
Do fries come with that? No, I don't need to Super Size, thanks.
- caj needs a haircut
Ninjas.
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
um.....wha?
- Joel Robert Perez
Say what? Love to do that. Darn - jumping to conclusion is my only exercise. ",)
- jan geronimo
Can anyone help me with my print driver for my Windows? I have a floppy diskette. Thank you.
- Jay Cuthrell
Jay, try the little blue pill.
- SteVe C
Steve, it's been installing for four hours. Should I be concerned?
- Jay Cuthrell
Jay - just huck that puppy right out window, problem solved,
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
Good God man, this could be your one chance to impress the chicks, run with it.
- SteVe C
This one time, at band camp...
- JCunwired
I only read up to "People"
- Brandon Mendelson
Question, and it actually relates to the original post!: ok do I really have to read the epic "325 comments" threads in their entirety? I can read really fast, but damn, that is just too many coments to go thru! Suggestions? What is the reasonable amount of comments one should read, i.e. FF cutoff for ridiculously long threads? Thoughts? We need consensus for this important topic. thanks
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
Gotta keep that Reticulating Activating System active!
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
I can feel it tingling. That means it is working.
- Jay Cuthrell
does this involve live eels and money changing hands?
- Joe The Sausage
I agree. You know what else drives me batty in comments? Self-promoters. Make_no_sense spambots, ass kissers ("Kudos..!"), and jack asses that think someone's name begins with an @ (pro tip: nobody's name begins with an @ symbol). People that insist on not using punctuation and/or spelling, except for acronyms and/or corp names (either you can use caps or not).
- coldbrew
Coldbrew: You are the best! Have you read my free ebook on how to make $5,000 a day on the Internet by harnessing the power of the undead?
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
Susan: Please quit threadjacking! There's a cake in the oven!
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
*smacks Davidson with a large trout*
- coldbrew
First!
- Frankie Warren
Approximately 7:00
- Joe Dawson
So then the Scotsman lifts up his kilt and yells to the group of soccer moms, "Guid day burds, wa dornt ye come ower haur an' lit me shaw ye hoo it's dain!"
- Morgan
If Robert Scoble gives me the money, I'm going to use it to perfect my idea of baking golf balls that I'll give to needy children in Arizona.
- Akiva
I've said it once, I've said it a million times: I'm still gay.
- Sparky, lurking
I like pie. And pi.
- Michael R. Bernstein
The business card scanning service I used is http://www.cloudcontacts.com -- freaking awesome service. Joins cards to social networks.
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Allen Stern does a great job with this. I am a satisfied customer.
- Louis Gray
Still need to do mine...maybe I'll get a CloudContacts.com t-shirt so I can wear it on photo shoots
- Jesse Stay
I'm not sure how cheap a personal assistant/employee you need to break the cost of $3 a card, but my kids are cheaper :) I saw this first from Tim Ferriss. I hate to admit I read him, but he's one of the best sources for "get your life done w/ less hassle," out there. Cheesy? Yes. Great guy to watch? Afraid so. Not big on engaging folks like Robert here.
- Jason Nunnelley
thanks very much - jesse as soon as i make shirts, you will be the first to get one - and you will have to send me the SM/DQ in return :)
- Allen Stern
I wonder if there's a cool iPhone app to do this. Snap. Drap objects to identify name, company, position, phones, etc. Save. :)
- Dave Q
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