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On my whiteboard is "battlefronts." IE, who in the tech industry is taking over the castle. Who do you think is? Join me live:
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IE, Apple is taking over the castle from Nokia in the mobile phone space. Twitter is making a strong move on the social networking castle that Facebook owns.
- Robert Scoble
Ustream and Blip.tv are trying to get into YouTube's castle but keep getting shut out.
- Robert Scoble
Is Twitter storming Facebook's castle or is facebook storming Twitter's?
- Peter Kelley
Peter: I think Facebook is losing castle rooms to Twitter and it pisses Facebook off.
- Robert Scoble
Zoho and Google are trying to take ground away from Microsoft Office.
- Robert Scoble
Also is Mahalo building their own castle or storming someone elses?
- Peter Kelley
twitter are the horde slowly taking over the outlying areas of facebooks domain
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
So is SocialText and Atlassian and Jive and others.
- Robert Scoble
apple is going to be losing ground to both android and pre on different slices of turf IMO
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
FIOS is taking over cable and satellite. My iPhone is making my Windows desktop irrelevant.
- Brett Nordquist
Mindtouch is storming the sharepoint castle
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Gowalla is taking BrightKite's castle
- Peter Kelley
Anyway, the question is, where do you see entrenched "winners" under attack by new companies or ideas.
- Robert Scoble
Peter: FourSquare is doing a better job of doing that than Gowalla is.
- Robert Scoble
FIOS is a non-issue until they lose the "higher market" feel - i.e. it won't be in my working class neighborhood for another 2 years
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Wordpress is storming the Blogger castle.
- Brett Nordquist
But Gowalla is in the game.
- Robert Scoble
Louis Gray is taking over the Robert Scoble castle.
- Cristo
Anything related to keeping data tied to a physical location is dead. Freedom of mobility has stormed the castle and is now dancing in the courtyard as it burns down around it.
- Adrian Pike
Android from the iPhone, in the next 2 years
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
gowalla has just elbowed both twitter and foursquare out of the spot at the gate that is brightkyt
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Bing to Google
- Ankush Narula
from iPhone
Brett: Wordpress is almost an entrenched player now. Squarespace is the one trying to take away Wordpress share, isn't it?
- Robert Scoble
Christian: I agree.
- Robert Scoble
squarespace is showing wordpress how to be a better hosted service -- *with their own product!*
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Ankush: I don't agree that Bing is really disrupting Google that much yet. It's a nice thought, though, and it is a fun fight to watch, so I agree there.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I still see a lot of Blogger blogs, but you're right. SquareSpace is making a big move.
- Brett Nordquist
this is why i like friendfeed
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Rackspace is taking place of Amazon in hosting :)
- ashish
Spotify trying to sneak up on iTunes/Amazon/Pandora
- Ankush Narula
from iPhone
In location services I see Yelp making big moves into a place that Google owns right now, at least in my mind.
- Robert Scoble
Ashish: shhhhh.
- Robert Scoble
We need something to take a bit away from WordPress - too much insecurity stuff in the press recently
- Jalada
Ankush: we think alike, I had that on my whiteboard already.
- Robert Scoble
rackspace still has a pricing misconception demon to shake loose
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Are Wordpress and Drupal different castles?
- Peter Kelley
I love the cool ads on free squarespace blogs. Makes me think of blogspot in 2002
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
I wish Rackspace would give me a huge amount of storage to host my blog, pictures and music, but make it affordable and easy to access from any device with internet.
- Brett Nordquist
drupal is being stormed by mindtouch - now that is a sleeper-awakening fight
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Brett: how is http://rackspacecloud.com not doing just that?
- Robert Scoble
Google is moving against Twitter by adding contextual streams to web pages via Scoble's favorite tool: SideWiki
- Ankush Narula
from iPhone
Mike: that's an interesting one. I don't watch mindtouch that much, I should do an interview with them.
- Robert Scoble
@bear: On Intranets or more generally, there are a lot of Drupal sites out there
- Peter Kelley
Robert: Checking that out now. Did not know about it.
- Brett Nordquist
Ankush: I don't agree there, but that's one to put on the board as a potential disrupter.
- Robert Scoble
Windows Mobile 6.5 was found dead in the moat.
- Brett Nordquist
peter - on the intranets - but that means they will bust out when the open-source side catches up with what they have commercially developed
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
robert - mindtouch is moving in all the right places and in the proper direction ;)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Robert: give it a year regarding Bing -MS know how to commoditized better than anyone (as u know!)
- Ankush Narula
from iPhone
Got Brizzly on your whiteboard? I think they're up to something
- Jalada
First you have to define who's in the castle that is being taken over.
- Alex Scoble
yea, brizzly is looking at their feature set getting over shadowed by twitter doing a "me also" update
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Jalada: I need a whole whiteboard on Twitter clients. Damn, did you see Tweetie 2.0 yet? You should, it's going to take over the iPhone app space for Twitter clients.
- Robert Scoble
Mike: it will be interesting to see what Seesmic does about Tweetie 2.0.
- Robert Scoble
Oh, Tumblr and Posterous are also disrupting Wordpress and Blogger.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Seen the coverage of it. Can't wait to get my hands on it. We're re-engineering our iPhone app at Twitterfall too, it's sure to give us some ideas ;-)
- Jalada
robert - :/ yea
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
VMWare/Spring Source are taking over the RedHat/JBoss castle
- Peter Kelley
For that matter what about threadsy? They are surely capable of disrupting the webmail market if marketed properly
- Ankush Narula
from iPhone
Posterous is fantastic and i'm using it to replace Flickr in some areas.
- Brett Nordquist
I predict tumblr and posterous merging by the end of the year - they are just too awesome to fight each other
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Ankush: I heard threadsy had some performance issues, have they been ironed out?
- Jalada
Microsoft Office Web tries bringing in the battering rams, but isnt doing much right now against the heavily fortified walls of Google Docs
- Kevin Traver
Mike: I have some ideas, but they require you guys to become curation tool before Tweetie gets there.
- Robert Scoble
Last.FM is storming the Pandora castle.
- Brett Nordquist
glassfish+(scala,jpython,jruby) is owning the bare RoR scene
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Kevin, I see Google Docs as breaking over the castle wall into Microsoft territory right about now, actually. :-)
- Robert Scoble
robert - yes, we need to become the goto place for both current and historical data flow
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Cloud computing is like a fog that's obscuring the view between castles. When the fog lifts, no telling whose castle will be left standing and who will be crushed.
- Paul Blasman
from iPhone
But Microsoft's castle is so big they still aren't worried. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Paul: Cloud Computing is just a tool to get over the wall. :-)
- Robert Scoble
bear - I think Groovy/Grails are doing a better job of storming the ROR castle and many other web framework castles besides
- Peter Kelley
cloudcomputing allows you to take the battle off the ground and just go *around* the others
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Robert: It's a magical tool that everyone says is great, but then find it's too small to get over big walls.
- Jalada
peter - hmm, then i'm not watching enough Groovy/Grails shops to get wind of that - i'll have to adjust
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
is Netflix on your whiteboard?
- Brett Nordquist
Brett: no, but it is now.
- Robert Scoble
rssCloud/Hubbub? Not companies though...
- Jalada
Jalada: that's like Cloud Computing: a tool to help you get over the wall.
- Robert Scoble
jalada - IMO that's a minor battle between what type of pipe to use - only internet plumbers are worried about that
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Robert: Redbox is pretty cool too. Used it before?
- Brett Nordquist
Brett: No, and I haven't used Roxio yet either.
- Robert Scoble
Google Analytics is taking over Omniture (maybe already taken over going by Omniture's Q1 earnings)
- MadhuIyer
One night DVD rentals for a buck. Red Box always seems busy no matter where I see them.
- Brett Nordquist
Redbox is for those that don't know what's good for them
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Oh and Fake Carol Bartz taking over Fake Steve Jobs
- MadhuIyer
Madhulyer: oh, I SO agree with that!
- Robert Scoble
verizon realizing before at&t that limits on the data flow just hampers profit increases
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Although @shitmydadsays is kicking both of their asses.
- Robert Scoble
according to my kids, the iPod Touch is replacing the Nintendo DS
- Brett Nordquist
I'm liking where Boxee is going with webtv. could be what appletv had hoped to be.
- michael sean wright
Boxee taking over tivo?
- ashish
Brett: I agree with them, it's certainly a threat Nintendo/Sony need to tackle
- Jalada
Yeah, Boxee and Bittorrent are definitely changing TV for a new generation.
- Robert Scoble
Renting physical media is not going to put a crack in anyone' wall.
- Paul Blasman
from iPhone
Jalada: This year we'll spend more in App Store games from Apple than games from Nintendo.
- Brett Nordquist
Hulu is taking over paid cable
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Google's archers try to fend off some incoming twitter boats
- Kevin Traver
but this proves to be difficult because the water in the moat is very unstable due to Google Waves
- Kevin Traver
Brett: us too. And Xbox.
- Robert Scoble
Kevin: Google Wave is super slow for me today. And totally unusable. I don't know about people who like it. I think they are all nerds. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Google Wave is to far out on the horizon - it still has a chance to sink itself or run up on the reef of complicated-UI
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
This Friendfeed thread is taking over my social life!
- Brett Nordquist
I think they're handing out a new Wave (aha..) of invites today, slowly.
- Jalada
FriendFeed will take over something I hope
- Jay
Robert - yep, wave is for early adopter nerds
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Jay: Can it still do that now it belongs in Facebook's castle?
- Jalada
Google Wave is just taking over people's ability of effectiveness...
- MadhuIyer
Jalada: How about..? FriendFeed should take over everyone's homepage.
- Jay
FriendFeed is a realm that joined the Facebook Castle so they could get some troops garrisoned inside their operation
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
This castle analogy is brilliant
- Jalada
Mike: gearing up for pushing Twitter back over the wall. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Some of Google's guards cautiously watch Wolfram|Alpha in the distant horizon.
- Kevin Traver
Robert - yea, they saw the oncoming battle and decided to join forces
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
/me wonders if Robert has enough new ideas for interviews and articles yet
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Yeah, I was just checking to see if there was some wall breach happening that I wasn't familiar with.
- Robert Scoble
Kevin - and laugh
- Peter Kelley
some of these battles are good ol' "dig under the walls and let it slowly collapse" fights, while others are storm-the-gates assaults
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Robert: At WordCamp Seattle two weeks ago, I was surprised to hear how many people were still on blogging platforms other than Wordpress. Assumed everyone was on WP already.
- Brett Nordquist
Brett: Yeah, that's wacky. What were the most popular non-Wordpress ones? Any idea why they are still on those?
- Robert Scoble
Brett - at PodCamp Philly last weekend almost everyone was asking how to use WordPress and if they should move from Blogger to WP (amongst the new blogger scene)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Adobe Flash coming under attack from HTML/5 if the major players will stop their HTML/5 codec bickering. For example a Safari plugin to switch YouTube Video from Flash to Apple H.264 http://bit.ly/JlWVO
- Ed Millard
Robert: almost all I spoke with were on Blogger. A few on Typepad and many had created websites that were out-of-date.
- Brett Nordquist
Mike: I'm not surprised. Maybe still too difficult to roll your own WP install?
- Brett Nordquist
Ed - good one - yea, if the HTML/5 scene doesn't stop fighting they are going to cede all that work to Flash
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Brett - some of that plus also the latest security issues were a big concern
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Mike: Good point about security. Lots of talk about that as well. Still too many hurdles for the less technical.
- Brett Nordquist
Brett - agreed - I was pointing everyone to hosted solutions by asking them the question: Do you *really* want to become a SysAdmin as well as a blogger?
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Scobleizer's SUL taking over Twitter's SUL
- MadhuIyer
here's a challenge - let's talk about who's taking over what castle and *not* mention Twitter
- Dave Hodson
Madhulyer - and also true celeb's twitter lists taking over both of those SUL's
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Dave, wasn't Twitter mentioned in the first comment?
- Cristo
@Cristo - yup. I have Twitter fatigue; there must be other castles to storm out there
- Dave Hodson
Dave, I think I have castle storming fatigue.
- Cristo
I'm going to need some buffs if there's more castles to storm today.
- Brett Nordquist
/me puts down a fish feast and calls out for a table
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
I think the Twitter fatigue is due to the fact that people constantly reference it. Sure it is growing, super cool, the-best-thing-eva, but what *else* is out there? How about the impact that a service like Aardvark is having/not having on Yelp for example?
- Dave Hodson
Dave: fair enough but let's see your ideas for castles being stormed that don't include the T-word anywhere? :-)
- Robert Scoble
@Scoble - as I said, Aardvark and Yelp. I've been using Aardvark for a while now and I think they might be on to something.
- Dave Hodson
Dave: that's actually why I started this post, to see if there's any other battlefronts out there. Turns out there are. As to Yelp: I don't see @vark as a @yelp killer. I'm not even sure they are battling for the same thing. Most of the questions on @vark that I get have nothing to do with restaurants or places or businesses.
- Robert Scoble
I think @vark could disrupt Yahoo or Google search, though, and take away some revenue.
- Robert Scoble
@Scoble - questions really depend on what you sign up for - I asked a question the other day about a good/quick place to eat near the Fillmore in SF and got several good replies right away. Yelp wouldn't really have helped me there. Plus the new iPhone app is pretty good. And not to be a total fanboy, but I really like the IM integration.
- Dave Hodson
Yeah, good point. I do love @vark, don't get me wrong.
- Robert Scoble
Surprised nobody mentioned the Kindle
- Brett Nordquist
Brett: good point!
- Robert Scoble
that atari thing my neighbours have is taking over my lightbrite.
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Brett - or the new tablets coming out (and not the apple one either!)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Mike, who is making the new tablets? I've not heard much then.
- Brett Nordquist
Brett: there are a couple already out in EU by Archos. Gateway's tablet PC was leaked and there is the hopefully coming Crunchpad. Those are just off the top of my head
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Chrome is taking over someones castle. im not sure if its ie or Firefox
- Anthony Feint
How about on the SSD front, OCZ Vertex line vs Intel X25's
- Joe Hanink
Skype, cell and Google Voice are taking over traditional telco phone landline castle
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
Thanks for all the MindTouch mentions folks. Scoble, happy to talk again. It's been quite a while. Ping me and let's set something up. Happy to meet up when I'm in your neighborhood again.
- Roebot
Scoble, more on MindTouch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch... and also watch some of the demos to the right of the page here: http://www.mindtouch.com/Solutio...
- Roebot
Meanwhile, MySpace is M.I.A. and no one gives a shizzle!
- Danny Minick
Thanks! Sorry, do you mean AXA group - http://www.axa.com ?
- Patarakin
Correct. They're using MindTouch corp wide for collaboration and are having "Ideation" built on it.
- Roebot
The World's Best Presentations - BusinessWeek - http://www.businessweek.com/smallbi...
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- Roebot
Migrating From One MindTouch Instance To Another - Open Source Collaborative Networking for Intranets and Extranets - http://www.mindtouch.com/resourc...
We're making an announcement relative to this topic this week. :-) If you dm me I will give you access to the press room (requires credentials).
- Roebot
Planning to get another tattoo this year at #oscon?
- Deepak Singh
If we win the Sourceforge.net CCA I will:
- Roebot
1. PLEASE click here: http://sourceforge.net/communi... to vote NOW for MindTouch in the the SourceForge Community Choice Awards 2. Scroll to bottom and submit your email address 3. Confirm your vote by clicking the link sent to your email
- Roebot
How FriendFeed Could Become the Ultimate Social... - Marshall Kirkpatrick - FriendFeed - http://friendfeed.com/marshal...
both FFeed cofounders "liked" my post "How FF Could Become the Ultimate Conversation Tracker" http://ff.im/4Jind on to their secrets!! lol [from http://twitter.com/marshal...]
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
I'm confounded by FriendFeed's UeX most times I try to use it. For example, how the hell do I @ someone?
- Roebot
I wonder if MindTouch DekiWiki (http://www.mindtouch.com) is suitable for creating a professional website from. Anyone done that?
I think I responded to this on Twitter, but I might as well do so again here. Many ppl have done this. Including www.mindtouch.com, www.whorunsgov.com and http://support.rightscale.com to name a few. Oh, http://www.denstoredanske.dk/ is another nice one.
- Roebot
Has enterprise software always been terrible? Gnip’s Eric Marcoullier says yes | VentureBeat - http://deals.venturebeat.com/2009...
Problem with enterprise software is more a function of analysts steering vendors to develop for features. Enterprise vendors rely heavily on analysts for customer acquisition and media attention. Analysts cast such broad nets they return to customers with reports that claim ridiculous features they never need nor wanted. Vendors respond in turn with feature check list development.
- Roebot
Enterprise 2.0 Software: Commoditization before Monetization | Pretzel Logic - Enterprise 2.0 - http://www.pretzellogic.org/2009...
Google Wave will add value to the enterprise, but will need to have a framework for putting it in context with other enterprise systems and services.
- Roebot
How do I... Embed an image gallery? - MindTouch Developer Center - http://developer.mindtouch.com/index...
Click the extension manager in the toolbar and select Flickr. That's my preferred image gallery mechanism. An even easier way is to just attach images to the page. MindTouch automatically generates an image gallery from attached images.
- Roebot
How do I...Migrate from MediaWiki to MindTouch - MindTouch Developer Center - http://developer.mindtouch.com/index...
There is a much easier way: http://www.mindtouch.com/Documen... makes it really simple.
- Roebot
As FriendFeed can send "shameless self-promotion" in your feed, this hints how future ads could be inserted. Have you seen this?
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Just saw this, interesting development.
- Erik Magraken
The only thing would be to let us comment on it :D
- Johnny Worthington
Yes it just did, and see people are already talking...these form of ads will be more interactive on FF
- Asankhaya Sharma
Hide is the only option. I can't even like it.
- Louis Gray
this is right above your post in my home feed - interesting
- Nathan Chase
Nathan, we operate in real time.
- Louis Gray
Neat. But agree we'd love to comment.
- Paola Bonomo
it is too bad we can't like it, or comment on it - interactive ads might not be a bad idea
- Nathan Chase
@Louis - right!
- Nathan Chase
If it were an ad, would the tendency be to provide negative feedback? Should it be one giant conversation FriendFeed wide? Should you only see comments from your friends?
- Louis Gray
Louis, you're slacking :P http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
ditto about comments, seemed strange not being able to...even if I wasn't going to
- Rick Bucich
Good work, Mike. :)
- Louis Gray
I like that you can't comment or like it. Otherwise, it'd keep getting bumped up. I'm not sure we'd want ads to keep being bumped up.
- Rochelle
haha - "Your news is 4 minutes old. FAIL!" :)
- Nathan Chase
What if the ad permanently held the third position from the top in your stream, Rochelle?
- Louis Gray
just saw it.
- Laura Norvig
Pff, beat ya Slayer :) Though didn't include a pic, Mo Fail!
- Mo Kargas
It's not a terrible idea for monetization - if you don't like the ad, just Hide it.
- Nathan Chase
Bleh.
- Derrick
Louis, for how long? If an ad stayed there forever, I'd have a problem with that. I'd want a premium/paid membership to get rid of it.
- Rochelle
@Nathan, can you do 'hide all like this' Or is that something we may end up paying for? Hmm
- Mo Kargas
I don't know, Rochelle. I'm not in charge. :)
- Louis Gray
@Rochelle - some ads people want to see. Super Bowl commericals for example.
- Nathan Chase
It's a great idea and you can hide them.
- Michael Fidler
Nathan, if people want to see the ads on FriendFeed, then they can opt to not pay for a premium membership and can see all of the ads. :)
- Rochelle
I have no problem with this, it's the slickest implementation of ads I think I've ever seen (besides Google AdWords), as long as they stay away from ad companies that don't screen their ads and through popups and malware on everyone's computer.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Borrowed from Facebook "sponsored stories." Turnabout is fair play
- Christian Anderson
I understand this is the direction Facebook is taking also
- Michael Fidler
The potential of this just prepares me to yearn for a paid option.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Yeah. I could see FriendFeed power users paying to keep the ads off as a premium service. Although some people might just leave FriendFeed entirely - or some enterprisiing Greasemonkey/Stylish hacker would discover a way to hide them all via scripting
- Nathan Chase
I wonder what sort of targeting will they use for ads within feeds, when someone is bashing twitter it may seem a good time to show ad for a competitive service (say ff)
- Asankhaya Sharma
The new logon has been very successful so far. This just ensures that more people will see it. They should feature this on every individual item/post page when someone views it who's not logged in
- Michael Fidler
It is really strange not to be able to like or comment on it, but now that it shows up on the subscription management page, I guess it's really just more along the lines of an alert. I *do* like it, and the timing is sure 'nuff good.
- Kathy Fitch
They probably don't want people to comment on it because most of the comments would be complaints (not now, maybe, but later).
- Lindsay
True, Lindsay--but all the more reason to let 'er rip, I always think. Never know what ideas will be gleaned. Anyway, I'm sure they knew we'd discuss and examine elsewhere.
- Kathy Fitch
Confirmed. http://ff.im/2Qb7k
- Jay Cuthrell
They should add 'like' to ads if this is the monetisation strategy. Similar to the way you can up vote ads in reddit. Hide counts as a down vote
- Glenn Slaven
Nice--very nice--it updates. Keeps tabs on new twitter friends not yet added here. Handy. (But yes, of course, an ad could be pushed in just the same way. One of the perks/temptations of being the one with the keys to the system. Can't deny it's efficient for bulletins, though.)
- Kathy Fitch
Jay, what are you saying is "confirmed"?
- Rochelle
it had a hide option...I hid it. :)
- dafire
Also had the permalink so the feature could easily be located for future reference.
- Kathy Fitch
I don't mind the unit per se, but not being able to comment on it seems antithetical to what FriendFeed has been working towards. And ... wouldn't you want a Like or Share option too?
- AJ Kohn
Thanks to your post (and all the similar ones) it's becoming part of a viral self-promotion campaign :-)
- gib
The disturbing thing to me would be if future ads were very sticky, and also from unscrupulous advertisers. (like the ones on Facebook) - Sitcky: I just don't have the screen realestate to spare for ad space like that ad had. Evil advertisers on Facebook: the damn IQ quizzes and Make Money Fast Online crap. I see enough on Facebook and twitter of all that. Liking ads is key. Commenting would be even better.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
ON another Note: I WOULD like to see Important FriendFeed announcements take this format: Planned outages, Known feed issues (i.e. AOL mail not going, Faceook status not importing, Twitter link down etc). And These should be sticky until acknowledged.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I wouldn't consider this a "shameless ad". It is informative and helps one to use the product better. I benefited from it.
- Roebot
I saw it when it happened. At least they labeled it appropriately.
- Martha
Yeah. Hid it immediately. Hrmph.
- Ladybug Heather
I just added 128 more Twitter friends to my Twitter Clone list. They just keep coming!
- Louis Gray
With like, commenting and clickthroughs, you can compute relevancy of the ad and use that to improve targeting. Furthermore, provide "feeds" for discussing products and services that are in the ads. This has so much potential. In fact, let me search for ads and create a new category of ads called "coupons"!
- Peng-Toh
Just saw this,is this FF's ad business model?
- Steve Chou
At least these guys have a potential business model! I won't mind *a few* such "shameless self promotions" or ads per day.
- Vijay
it's much too early still for FriendFeed to advertise, but probably in the end offering an ad free paid account and a free ad supported account make sense.
- Thomas Hawk
Saw this yesterday. I don't mind it but I think Thomas' idea is the best option.
- Al Stevens
@Nathan Chase I put this out on day zero of this new entry type http://friendfeed.com/micahwi...
- Micah Wittman
This thread was discussed on the FFundercats (http://www.ffundercats.com/2009...)
- Josh Haley
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what a great idea!
- SiN wYrM
Totally agree. More here:http://www.oblogn.com/2009... it's a GREAT IDEA!
- Roebot
Some peoples butts might still be too sore from biking to work on Earth Day though.
- Barry
We have bike to work week here in Vancouver. Amateurs. ;-)
- cecily
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is a condition in which dilated cerebral ventricles inhibit normal flow of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The CSF accumulates in the skull and puts pressure on the brain tissue. An enlarged head in infants and increased CSF pressure are frequent findings but are not necessary for the diagnosis. Hydrocephalus is sometimes inaccurately referred to as "water on the brain."
- Roebot
Brain, Colloid Cyst: eMedicine Radiology - http://emedicine.medscape.com/article...
Colloid cysts account for approximately 1% of all intracranial tumors and are the most common type of the neuroepithelial cysts, as well as the most common tumor in the third ventricle.
- Roebot
@davewiner The one thing all the classic sci fi authors missed was social networking
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That's so true. Hadn't considered this.
- Roebot
Sometimes a blurry photo captures Milan's joy the best: - http://ourdoings.com/roberts...
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We are at a birthday party and Milan is running around clapping and cheering everyone on. Pure joy.
- Robert Scoble
Translation: the camera in the iPhone sucks.
- Robert Scoble
I find I like photos of kids in action and a little blur is true capture of the moment. It goes by in the blink of an eye!
- Nakeva Corothers
same with my niece :)
- Krikit Media
:-) wow is he big now.
- Roebot
Crappy iPhone pics are such a blessing. They bring so much joy to friends and family every day.
- Christian Burns
in motion and motoring. nice pic robert.
- Rodney Rumford
ambient light is always worth the blur
- Brian Hendrickson
I try not to post all our blurry Sarah and Matthew photos. But they are the norm rather than the exception at this point. :)
- Louis Gray
This is "real time" Milan :) hahaaa!
- Susan Beebe
Nicely put Susan :)
- Nicholas Kreidberg
My kids keep me going - it's one of the reasons I love being an entrepreneur. I get to hear the pitter-patter of their feet above me all day long, and can go up any time I want to play.
- Jesse Stay
That is interesting name. What's the origin?
- petar vucetin
Cute!
- Mohammad Abdurraafay
Updating add-ons - MozillaZine Knowledge Base - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Updatin...
Turn off Compatibility check in FF and TB
- Roebot
California Missions Map - http://www.beachcalifornia.com/mission...
San Luis Rey de Francia
- Roebot
I need a new laptop. Should I go to Vista 64 or stick with XP?
I think a lot of programs don't work on 64 yet
- Zoli Erdos
Really? It doesn't just do 32bit emulation? That would be crap...
- Roebot
@joshu I think that just happens. I get weird random followers all the time. dunno why. who ARE these people?
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I want to be your friend....
- Roebot
Divorce Rates Drop, Couples Realize it's Cheaper Together - http://digg.com/busines...
Will the evangelicals re-evaluate their opinions on wealth? They should.
- Roebot
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