On my whiteboard is "battlefronts." IE, who in... - Robert Scoble

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