O2 is quite good though because they're promising pay as you go plans available later this year for iPhone, which means you can potentially get it (even at a high price), unlock it, and use it with any carrier.
http://o2.co.uk/iphone/paygo - Dmitry Paranyushkin via FriendFeed MT Plugin
@Yves
But this is great news and a good business opportunity. Russia is the 3rd market for iPhones (after US and China) and ironically iPhone is not available there. I think I saw estimates somewhere that there are about 500 000 of them in Russia or so...
Anyway, lots of Russians get their iPhones in the US and pay more than $1000 US to have one, cause you need a contract, etc.
So you could start bringing them from Belgium :) especially that they're not locked, so no pain with firmware upgrades...
My only problem is that you can't do videos with them. - Dmitry Paranyushkin via FriendFeed MT Plugin
Yeah, it is outrageous...but par for the course here in NZ. We have a duopoly so they can get away with it.
I'm over the outrage now, just disappointed that Vodafone NZ didn't do something better to really promote the use of the mobile web here. With this kind of data pricing it remains an expensive luxury instead of a handy utility. Gutted. - Charles via FriendFeed MT Plugin
Thanks for bringing some attention to Vodafone's outrageous pricing. It makes the Rogers pricing in Canada look cheap and cheerful! - Stuart Maxwell
yup - vote with your wallets, don't buy it.
I feel better about our RM99/month(USD 33)unlimited data plan here in M'sia now - and hsdpa is in nearly all urban areas too.
Damn worried about data roaming charges when i visit NZ shortly tho! - Paul Moss via FriendFeed MT Plugin
I'm with @Morgan on this one
easiest solution is to say no - go with another network and another device.... - Ben Kepes via FriendFeed MT Plugin
I'm finding FriendFeed more and more useful... it's kind of scary. AFAIC, I'm interested to see how this "CC" integration will work moving forward.
It seems that a better approach, however, would be to enable me to create an account on ReadWriteWeb with my OpenID and then use OAuth to authorize my comments to be sent to my FriendFeed account, rather than having to type in my key everytime. - Chris Messina via FriendFeed MT Plugin
Sweet integration! I almost want to have an MT blog now, but I know Disqus is gonna come through for me in the end. Right, Daniel? Daniel?
Anyway, good job, looks great and it really raises FriendFeed's profile here on RWW. - J. Phil via FriendFeed MT Plugin
w00t! just want to make sure that this shows up in the FF comment stream too. thanks for the info! - ~C4Chaos
@factoryjoe, I have thought about that approach as well. I may very well update the plugin in future such that your FF account can be linked to your MT login (whether native or OpenID). That would certainly make things smoother, as all your would need to enter is your openID. - Mark Carey via FriendFeed MT Plugin
I was just watching a presentation by Tapscott (wikinomics dude), with a panel of "next generation" Gen y'ers in front of big name NY execs. I was thinking it was unfair to mislead all these senior executives that they are representative of most people their age - the panel are just early tech adopters like everyone else here (rather than typical 22 year olds). But I've just come back to reality, realising how early adopters influence the masses - this is a perfect example of how a early adopter crowd influence an early adopter blog which in turns influences the mainstream media which in turn influence the mass market. News like this mark turning points for these products I think. - Elias Bizannes via twhirl
I think this is a cool feature and had to try it.
I notice that some people have a blog-entry item that does inverse linking -- reporting pages that link to the blog entry.
It looks like this is automated. I think that would be very useful and I am out to find out more.
Wouldn't this (perhaps) solve the track-back problem. There would have to be some sort of white-list/black-list system to deal with link bait, though, wouldn't there? - Dennis E. Hamilton via FriendFeed MT Plugin
I changed the title, to remove Twitter. It's not technically correct that we're integrating Twitter -- although of course the link that attracts FriendFeed comments could come from Twitter. In this case it came from the RWW rss feed, but it also went to Twitter via Tweetfeed. The trouble with these things is they make one's head hurt :-) - Richard
Ah, now I am in FriendFeed and can see how this works from this side. Have to find the opportunity to comment in Twhirl too and I will be very happy. - Dennis E. Hamilton
@Richard: Interesting. The title doesn't change in FriendFeed, of course, but your comment about it does, which I guess is close enough for computer work. - Dennis E. Hamilton
the other cool thing is that the FF comments actually get saved to our RWW publishing software. So if FF ever went down or stopped working, the comments will still be on RWW. - Richard
I love this feature! I wish the WordPress plugin worked in a similar fashion. - Mack D. Male
When I try to post trough Feedly, I get -error: 404 -- undefined'. Hmm... but it seems this is only true for some posts and not for others. - Kris Haamer
Wow! Looks great. An elegant solution. - Chris Baskind
Good enough reason to take a second look at Movable Type - Andy Roberts
Nice work with the CC to FriendFeed, I really like the direction that this is going and FriendFeed integration with sites is definitely the way forward! - Joe Dawson via FriendFeed MT Plugin
cool .... i swear a blog is coming that is ONLY comments, and a prize will be offered to determine what the article was about
dang, startup anybody? - gregory lent via FriendFeed MT Plugin
Why doesnt FriendFeed share with other services? Instead of just gathering from other sources? - donclark
I'm currently using Wordpress for my blog system. I'm going to try to install this: http://blog.slaven.net.au/word... , At least that's the only one I found for Wordpress. I may be wrong. But this is a great idea! - Dennis Jackson
I have experienced spam on Facebook a couple of times with friends accounts being used to distribute the messages. No where near on the level of MySpace, hence the reason I deleted my profile there a while ago! Twitter so far has been good to me as I haven't received anything yet but I am overly selective of who I follow!! - Joe Dawson via FriendFeed MT Plugin
Feeling a little iphone backlash as several pricing announcements revealed. UK pricing seems fair but availability might suck to begin with. - sam sethi
Josh, I agree they're not direct competitors -- but they have some key features that overlap. Discussion is the biggie. Many people used to use Twitter to respond to people, but now they use FF instead. - Richard via FriendFeed MT Plugin
I still use both Twitter and FriendFeed to respond to people. There is overlap, but not as much as most people think. Predictions is a cool idea, but that logo is pretty hard on the eyes! - Mack D. Male
This is like that 90's battle between Blur and Oasis - Bjorn Tipling
Wild to see your comment on the blog pop over to here. At first I was thinking..."who's Josh?" - Hutch Carpenter
I think it will probably be around 600 or 700,000. Who knows, though?
I still haven't really gotten on the FriendFeed wagon, but that's because I don't personally know enough super-early-adopters.
Hell, my friends are only just starting to get onto Twitter. - Stephen Glauser via FriendFeed MT Plugin
Twitter and Friendfeed are two different kind of services. I don't necessarily see them as competitors. Twitter is a microblogger where Friendfeed is the aggregator and logger of your social media activities. Friendfeed became a discussion platform through comments and rooms. Twitter is still very much about shouting what you think and feel at a certain time. I think the two can coexist perfectly fine. - Rutger Blom via FriendFeed MT Plugin
Josh, I agree they're not direct competitors -- but they have some key features that overlap. Discussion is the biggie. Many people used to use Twitter to respond to people, but now they use FF instead. - Richard via FriendFeed MT Plugin
