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What I just noticed is he probably has the second shortest hair after Ike (bald) and John Quincy Adams (#6 for those who don't know). - Andrew Leyden

i'm confused Tobias, not sure what you mena. Clearly yes, race has played a big role in this election. - Zee.

Obama is the first president without grey hair? Really? - Peter

Tobias, voting for or against Obama based on race would have been to vote ignoring all the other other issues at hand so it wasn't a focal point. Now that he's won we're free to focus on the historical moment of having our first minority President and what that means and says about us as a country. - David Knight

@David Knight I think you nailed it. The focus on race that you see right now shouldn't be classed as "since Obama won" but "at the moment of his winning." We have crossed a boundary. We should take note. Now that we've crossed, our attention to Obama's race will dissipate. On the other hand, the fact of his race, name, and lineage will loom large in foreign policy throughout his presidency. - Michael Markman

@gregory lent. Hmm. I see humans. Don't you? - Michael Markman

just realised ceebee posted this earlier - sorry man, didn't realise. - Zee.

Nice - fbrunel

Nice but why only Obama's hair is black? :) - Ahmet Alp Balkan

@gregory. It isn't just coincidence that all 44 are male, and 43 are white. If we want to follow the path to ensuring that differences are not barriers, we can't deny that historically they have been. Following that path requires us to cross some boundaries into new territory. This graphic marks one such boundary. I believe it puts us closer to your wish of "human not color" - Michael Markman

We've come far, FAR, in what amounts to only a couple generations. With not only the memory, but the living memory, still so fresh in so many, acknowledging and even celebrating each step down that road to unity is to pay respect to those did and gave so much to bring us this far. - Michael W. May

I completely agree with your last statement Gregory so why have you bought it up in the first place? (in your first comment) - Zee.

Celebration and Acknowledgment, even Discussion surrounding a Black Man as US President shouldn't be expunged, ignored, or stifled based on the We're All Created Equal argument. That sounds fairly bananas to me. - Marko Bon

There's been some focus on race last night and today, but it will probably die down, just as the focus on gender died down within a few days of Pelosi's elevation to Speaker of the House, or O'Connor's elevation to the Supreme Court. Pelosi and O'Connor were eventually evaluated based upon the issues, and Obama will be (and has been) evaluated based on the same. - Ontario Emperor

i'd have to agree - lets agree on blocking together eh? :) - Zee.

aaah...that feels better. - Zee.

before, it was a talking point. Today it's history, something that sends a huge message to the rest of the world. South Africa did it before us, now we're in the 20th century. 20th. - randulo

You can have unity and still see that people are different. Recognizing and accepting our differences can make us stronger. Unity, not uniformity! - David Knight

Sometimes I need a keyboard - Morton Fox

skeptical. it'd all depend on the way the study was conducted, number of people surveyed, etc. - this stuff is so misleading to have in the market. now, ten companies are going to tell themselves "we need a mobile strategy" and "mobile is where it is" only to find it's truly at least 10 years early and their idea will more than likely fail. - Patricia

I definitely need a keyboard. - Thomas Hawk

I agree. Love having internet on my iPhone in a pinch, but I often find myself saying, "oh, that's too slow ... I'll check it on my Mac when I get home." - Rob Witte from Alert Thingy

Sometimes that tiny mobile screen just doesn't quite cut it. - Rob Witte from Alert Thingy

All of the above comments are why mobile is early. The vast majority of the consumer market is still using traditional cell phones too. So, not only are the devices not there yet, the internet connectivity/quality not there yet, but the users too. Device agnostic web is a reality, but it's very early. - Patricia

I accidentally click on links with my iPhone alot. I'll be trying to scroll or reduce or enlarge the screen and I accidentally hit a link and bammm. I hate that. I also hate that my "My Maps" page on Google Maps is virtually impossible to load on an iPhone. One of the biggest reasons I bought one was to be able to check that page when I'm out and about for things that I mark to shoot. Not sure why Google Maps sucks so much on the iPhone. - Thomas Hawk

I like having the net on my 'berry, and the GPS is cool too, and I use GR to pass the time when waiting in lines etc, and read my emails as well, but most work has to be done here at my desk. A cellphone is not a real substitute. - Ian May

Of course Jason you wouldn't know how slow Apple's 3G is from watching their commercial on CNBC where it blazes through pages lightening quick with totally unrealistic real life speeds. I still don't know why they don't get more crap for those misleading commercials. - Thomas Hawk

"71 percent of respondents acknowledged that they expect to increase their usage of communication services such as obtaining maps and directions, instant messaging, social networking, emailing and reading the news from their mobile device. Growth markets like China and India are leading this adoption at a rapid pace and are proving to be the most open towards mobile internet than the mature markets. " these use cases make sense while mobile - Davide D'Incau

I do at least 50% of my internet consumption on mobile already now. I have 2Mbit broadband on my phone and the mobile is always with me. Of course I am early adopter, but I think we will see this happening in the next 3 to 5 years for the mass market. - Davide D'Incau

i'll believe this when the people BUY the devices. it seems like one of those surveys that doesnt reflect real behaviors - Jeremy Toeman

Mass market is only just beginning to cut their teeth on the full functionality of the web. It'll be a loooong time people. Mark my words. - Patricia

It doesn't mean every grandma is surfing Facebook on a smart phone by tomorrow. It means there will be a massive increase in mainstream use by the time the economy stabilizes 12-24 months out, and really takes off 36 months from now. In business, that's next week. - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

great find Robert. Just shared it myself. cheers. - linkman77

Great article that holds a perspective that is quickly gaining followers... - Mitchell Hislop from twhirl

I like that term: media snacking. That's pretty accurate, lol. - Rahaf Harfoush from feedalizr

I'm glad you liked my post, Robert. Your video with Tim changed the way I used Google Reader back then, and for the better. @gregory, part of my point is I think similar to the one you're making. I think a lot of those people suffering overload are geeks suffering from a self-induced problem that 'normal' people don't have. - Shane Perris

Prioritize, prioritize, prioritize... Not all feeds are created equal. - Sean McBride

very good article, everything's true... it's a drug, that's why it is painful... - TiTi

http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - collecting lots of related articles and posts there - Deva Hazarika

All the Twitter Apps that I've tried on my iPod Touch would crash on me. :( - Daynah

used to like twitterific then it started flaking out. then i went to mobile web version of twitter. now trying hahlo. me likee. thanks for the post! - Kevin Doohan

I love hahlo! I have mentioned in the past how I like Twinkle of all twitter apps, but I have noticed myself using direct message more to my gf and other friends since it's pretty much like free SMS, and twinkle doesn't support that. Not to mention, I live in a not so techie city, so using the nearby feature is pointless. I go with hahlo and twitterific for now. - Dennis Jackson

I keep going back to Hahlo. So at the moment http://hahlo.com is my favorite - Carroll

Twinkle is best. I feel I have 2 lists to check now. The people I follow, and the people around me. - PC Easy

I use Twitterific, I like the little bird sounds :) - Oli Kenobi

Twinkle has created conversations with new people simply because it has the local part of the app. I have seen people on all night using it like instant messenger. - Adam Helweh

If I lived in San fran I would agree Adam, but where I live you will have maybe two or three people in the area, and the tweets are not interesting at all! - Dennis Jackson

@dennis, Yeah I live in the SF bay area. ons of activity. I did not think of that. - Adam Helweh

I read in the article that Twittetific doesn't use GPS to locate you. Then how does it locate you? I'm sure I saw that feature while posting with it. - Dennis Jackson

my post coming soon... - MG Siegler

LOL - catepol from twhirl

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lemmings. sheep. fail. - Andrea Baker

Hooray! - Maryam Ardakani

Let me just say it again: I am so, so glad I didn't wait in line. - Akiva Moskovitz

ROFLMAO - Rob Witte from Alert Thingy

Great ! - Amir Homaiy

LOVE IT! - George Smith

Awesome! - Internet's Tad

Don't have a Jesus (or Mary) phone yet, so I can't judge. I would like to be able to judge, though! - Alex von Halem from twhirl

my interpretation: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Holger Eilhard

awesome! - andy brudtkuhl

cool. we can forget the wale...say welcome to the failPhone - Dan V from twhirl

lets hope the failphone stays failing for a few more hours - my iphone error page is doing quite nicely in pv :) - Allen Stern

great picture! - Corey Hammond

My RogersBlackberry is humming along fine - johnpiercy from twhirl

My RogersBlackberry is humming along fine too ;-) - AJ Batac

My updated iPhone (old school) is humming along just fine (I updated it yesterday and had no problems). - Jennifer Dittrich

Right...but its Rogers...and its Blackberry. See? - Kamath (नमः)

hey steve if your phone is down, i can let you borrow my samsung ace - it works great, super fast speeds, and an awesome opera mobile browser :) - Allen Stern

Hang out for a while. It finally comes on. I was down for 3 hours trying to update this AM, though - Francine Hardaway from twhirl

I am a committed late adopter to expensive change... vote McCain - Noah David Simon

Brilliant! - Sarah Crisman from NoiseRiver

Wow. First time I've seen an item with triple digit likes. - Mark Krynsky

me thinks it will go higher by days end ,, as the problems continue , flickr exposure + friendfeed = TRAFFIC ( Viewed 2,049 times ) on flickr - johnpiercy

beauty! i had a 1.0 brick all day - Bob DeAmbra from twhirl

i think this is one of the most liked posts on FF - Susan Beebe

Well of course, OS X servers can't handle the load. They should have used Linux. - Jake (aka Jawee) from twhirl

actually the credit card machines ARE running Windows. - Robert Scoble

windows really ???? - Raza from Alert Thingy

Seems like a mini-Black Friday - Lois Gray

In Germany everything went smooth, only short waiting (at least at the time I bought mine....) Only they had far too few phones everywhere - Markus Soelter

Yeah. Windows. That's always been the joke...apple stores running Windows paypoint software. - Jerry Chacon from twhirl

Apple store running Windows.. And SJ wants everyone to run Apple! - Muthu Ramadoss

I agree with Lois. This does not look good for Apple or ATT - Jerry Chacon from twhirl

If an Apple service goes down, is it a fail lemming? - Ontario Emperor

From a buzz perspective, what is interesting is that most of the comments are along the lines of "It sucks that the activation is down, but it won't affect my interest in getting a 3G" Nobody seems to take a negative position other than "I might wait a couple days to get an iPhone" - David Thomas

@John Denver - haven't you ever looked at their checkout PDAs? They are Windows Mobile devices, so they probably *are* running Windows servers. - Hillary Hartley

Twitter did raise their API limit. Who knows, maybe Apple is using Twitter. Was anybody asked for their Twitter account details? :D - Manu Ullas from twhirl

Wishful thinking, James. Even as friendly as Ubuntu is, the vast majority of the world isn't ready for Linux on a desktop. - Bradley McSpinn

that's not the same. Firefox is leveraging the platform, Linux is a much bigger jump. Also, Firefox isn't winning just because it's open source. Quite the opposite: as it is open source, it's much better in terms of feature vs Explorer. For Linux to do the same, it must really step change the way we use our OS. I don't see this happening. The OS is now a commodity, web and mobile are the new platforms, and maybe that's where Linux can play a bigger role. - Simone

If by "the vast majority of the world," you mean China, India, Latin America and Africa -- there are a lot of Linux desktops being used today. And what do you mean by "ready"? - Mike McCallister from NoiseRiver

Yes, there are absolutely a lot of them deployed. The 1% is still a very big number. I still don't think that the 99% is necessarily wrong, though. Their Win or Mac boxes do exactly what they want them to do, so they have neither reason nor desire to switch. - Bradley McSpinn

The vast majority of the world can't afford Windows. ;-) I think we'll see distros like Ubuntu starting to beat Windows or OS X in developing countries first due to economics. While that's taking place, the distros will continue to become more and more end-user friendly and sport prettier UIs. - Joanmarie

@Joanmarie - A good point. There's also the major brand + linux aspect. Buying a Dell with Linux on it can certainly lead to increased affordability. I honestly wish that Linux were more of an option for me, as I'm a big fan. But with some of the programs that I use, there's simply not that option. - Bradley McSpinn

James, are you related to Michael Robertson, who just threw in the towel on "Lindows?" http://www.informationweek.com/news... :-D - Karim

Maybe because Linux doesn't really have giants behind it like Microsoft and Apple? - Cem Catikkas

"Beat" is subjective (as is everything) it all depends on what the end user really wants from their soft/mach, no? - thecolor

I prefer in many cases to just save doe on the OS all together. - thecolor

I believe the mainstream end user doesn't care what platform he runs. How many iPhone users know what's running under the hood? - simonpure

I can't agree - at all - that Linux adoption is smaller than Windows or Mac OS adoption. As a matter of fact, I'm pretty much convinced that Linux is "better" or "readier" to the desktop than Mac OS, and certainly than Windows. There are LOTS of others things playing around - and that's the big issue for its adoption. You can't forget you're comparing "Microsoft's OS" and "Apple's OS" with "an open source OS". If you see the huge amounts of money spent for user awareness of Windows and Mac OS you'll see... - Marcos Marado

EEE PC is a great example for this. Most people prefer the Linux version to the Windows version, and would choose it even if they were the same price. That happens - of course - because people don't really see it as "a real computer", so they don't have that weird idea that "PCs have Windows", and so they look at that machine as "a tool to do stuff": read mail, web, IM'ing, video conference, word processing... the kind of stuff they use their "real computer" too, anyway. - Marcos Marado

Remember as well that there is a lot of open source software under the OSX hood. They are using the mach kernal developed for the NeXT, but the rest is based on Free BSD. The proprietary stuff is mostly eye candy. - Brad Collins from twhirl

yeah, a nice example of how the only thing needed to boost Linux (or something like that) is just a huge marketing effort... Of course that Windows is so bad that it makes competing easy (that was probably the most important key for OS X's success...) - Marcos Marado

What's needed is for Linux to be preinstalled. I've an eeePC, and it just works. Few home users ever install an OS. Platform neutral tech like Google Docs and AIR will help. - David Sim

Linux is so easy to use nowadays. Plus, you can even run Windows-only apps with it, much safer then in Windows. To win more grounds it just needs to be pre-installed and maybe prettier. - Danilo da Silva

"Linux still hasn't beat Windows or OSX on desktop" - *cough* when Win or Mac still can't what Linux could do a year ago - http://www.youtube.com/watch... - cerement

Sigh. OS Flame wars. *Hide* - Yuvi

ok, lets forget about what os optimistic.is better. the reason linux cannot win is because to win it would need to change its own principles in order to do so and because there are 10 mayor linux distros, 5 for enterprise (but that are also good as workstations) and 5 other for consumers. from the ones for consumers you got 5 to 10 versions of each distro and in the case of ubuntu you... more... - Avatar X from feedalizr

i mean, can someone really imagine a world with 15 different distros and 100 versions being the rule? - Avatar X from feedalizr

oh and for those that said: people would choose linux if presented with a option and the Eee pc running linux sells more than the one with windows: both accounts are wrong. there have been 3 commercially available Linux PC`s at wall mart for 100,200 and 300 dlls. all 3 failed and were retired from the market. and Asus only reason to launch with linux was because they launched with a... more... - Avatar X from feedalizr

I am not ready for Linux on the desktop, and I consider myself to be firmly in the "rest of the world" camp of luddites. Am I missing something, or is there a reason why I should be anything less than completely satisfied with Mac OS X on a shiny Macbook? - sage brennan

@Mike Mcallister: Microsoft Windows still dominates China in overwhelming fashion, due to the massive head start it got from the software pirates. The Microsoft OS/MS Office software is still *almost* as free as Linux is, here in China -- except for a small minority of people who buy desktops with legal software bundled-in. Linux is gaining from a very small base, but has many, many miles to go before it sleeps. - sage brennan

The biggest chance for Linux is the growing trend of applications being hosted online. If it can adapt to this model it has a good chance in the enterprise - because if you can run the web stack (Firefox/Google Gears/Adobe AIR/Java/etc) you may as well be running a solid, free and open local OS. - Ben

It's not linux itself that's the problem. It's the people. - Yuvi

There's a reason why Linux has never overtaken Windows or OS X. Casual users don't want to deal with that many things. - Cyndy

I used to run Linux and/or FreeBSD as a desktop for many years until I realized I spent more time tweaking the system than I ever did doing any actual 'work'. What worries me is that it's taken them nearly ten years to essentially crawl from where they were when I ran it in the late 90s to where they are now. Innovation needs to happen far more quickly than that for it to ever truly be viable and it seems the only major thing they've managed to do in a decade is to make the install mostly painless. - Akiva Moskovitz

Watch out for Linux on Mobile.. The time shall come. - Muthu Ramadoss

Using Linux is one of those perfect world scenarios. When you start you have that warm fuzzy feeling, but it quickly evaporates as you come to the conclusion that peripheral support is sparse and, incidentally, perfect worlds don't exist. - Blake Robinson from Alert Thingy

Robert, I got to hand it to you. You are the master of dropping conversation bombs. Windows + Linux in the same sentence = fur flying. Personally I go for OSS almost every time. EXCEPT.... I run XP ;) - john conroy

Blake puts it perfectly I guess. Linuxers (and perhaps Vista folks) must read Raymond Chen's blog. - Yuvi