There's not much to say about it — other than it's overhyped, not worth the price currently. In the long run, it might be a big winner; but when you have so many investors willing to buy stock in a company that has not really figured out how to make money or is still experimenting and has a CEO who just spent $1 billion on a company without revenues, it is still a BIG RISK at the...
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- Brad Acker
I put in an order for 100 shares at 39 and it was never filled. Must have been too busy with big shareholders. I wanted to see where it would go.
- Francine Hardaway
I would like to see a noise filter on memeorandum...how many of the stories are truly important vs. noise ala Huffington Post...give us filters and upvotes Gabe.
- Jim Posner
and others review the output and tend the configuration tables used by the algorithm
- Jerome Hughes
I like Kevin's bird noise drifting into Gabe's space. Kinda funny cause it's Gabe
- Tina Chase Gillmor
YouTube now promotes videos from my G+ social network first and it has been a disaster. Rarely do I see anything interesting anymore. Content based ranking works best for a lot of things.
- Todd Hoff
the crows were triggering Skype silencing people. the doves are OK
- Kevin Marks
Hacker News is doing a great job...like to see more of that model on Techmeme.
- Jim Posner
Will the Editorial Bots (algorithms, filters, etc.) triumph over people?
- Alex de Soto
Missing: Google search and separate Google+ search. 2 buttons!
- cliveb
Corona needs to be served icey cold with a lime. Just saying
- Tina Chase Gillmor
We need a way to use parts of someone else's profile. I'd love to save the time it took Robert to like thousands of brands, yet be selective.
- Murray Macdonald
When is Netflix going to stream 3D?..just got a 3D tv and looking for more content from services I am paying for already.
- Jim Posner
if "unlimited data" means way more people use your network than you thought would use it and you have to spend Billions to try to make the network be able to keep up, then unlimited data can be a bad decision. Its not a bad decision for users... but it cost lots of bucks to make the network be able to handle the load.
- Orville Chomer
Is there an ongoing revenue stream for AppleTV beyond the initial device sale?
- Murray Macdonald
1-click iTunes sales/rentals and maybe Netflix and MLB subscription revenue
- Ankush Narula
I have two iPads and a Mac Mini, Kevin, and Apple Tv, and I use all of them with my TVs from time to time
- Francine Hardaway
can't play Modern Warfare on it though, so it's XBox for us
- Da
So I can meaningfully use the device without a subscription, as long as I don't buy premium content?
- Murray Macdonald
Kevin, will privacy be back-fitted into enterprise sharing...#pii
- cliveb
Murray - yes - you can access content in iTunes on your desktop/laptop - and you can login to existing Netflix/MLB/NBA/NHL accounts and stream that content - and of course use AirPlay from iOS devices
- Ankush Narula
Facebook to acquire the Gillmor Gang.
- Nir Ben Yona
Is the show live only or is it archived anywhere?
- Jim Posner
also youtube, vimeo some others (not amazon)
- Kevin Marks
Wow Steve really using his hands today and I didn't even prompt that
- Tina Chase Gillmor
judge alsup learned to write enough java code to grip the case..!
- cliveb
I agree with Scoble. We need to take in relevant info while idle. Only part of my time is infront of a screen. I want contextually relevant data while I drive my car and brush my teeth.
- Murray Macdonald
I shouldn't need a new device, just a new app
- Murray Macdonald
iPad are taking off in the enterprise...but device tracking is still an issue from an IT security perspective.
- Jim Posner
Perhaps... It depends on my device and desired content. I should be able to offline content.
- Murray Macdonald
Android apps can run all the time. Let's not be held back by apple limitations.
- Murray Macdonald
Tina, Is there an archive of recent shows?
- Jim Posner
until the OS randomly kills them, Murray
- Kevin Marks
they can get remote notifications too though, even if not running
- Kevin Marks
Sometime Highlight comes up and announces that Steve Gillmor is nearby. but mostly it doesn't... even when he is. Not sure how that works
- Tina Chase Gillmor
I'm not getting one of those Fitbit things, still recovering from my Wii telling me I’m overweight and that I have the agility, balance and body of a 90 year-old
- Charlie Isaacs
will drop you and call u back robert
- Steve Gillmor
Ok... Kevin is drinking beer, John T. probably iced tea but could be spiked and robert has dropped off to do a shot. I don't know what John B. is drinking today. Any guesses?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
push notifications serialize realtime so you don't have to multitask - unfortunately ios notification center becoming another inbox for me
- Ankush Narula
many new apps are creating alternative inboxes
- Kevin Marks
Push notifications do remind me of email. Constantly in my face at the office.
- Alex de Soto
"Well, that's like hypnotizing chickens" --Iggy Pop
- Jerome Hughes
i agree that SOME people have issues multi tasking while others cannot function if they are NOT multi tasking
- studentforce
Charlie this is less true these days as I have taken to locking the cats out of the studio because they become so demanding when we're doing the show. On the other hand, I'm always herding cats on the GIllmor gang ;-)
- Tina Chase Gillmor
I believe students and people born after 1995 naturally multi task as they have known nothing else
- studentforce
i wish i could do two things at once on the ipad. i get so annoyed when i'm watchin a vid on a web page, and it stops when i go to a new tab to look something up
- Stephen M
I like the sunlight streaming into Borthwick's space
- Tina Chase Gillmor
I was born in 1966 and I've been doing this since I was able to
- Kevin Marks
so I guess what I'm saying is that the ability to multi task is probably a combination of physical (dopamine based whatever) and evolutionary
- studentforce
some people have a hard time accepting multiple capabilities in one person that they have not experienced in one person before
- Jerome Hughes
@da any "task" that is run on auto-pilot can't count as part of a "multi" task. We are not consciously thinking about walking - that is an automatic process, just as much as seeing where you're walking while you chew that gum.. :)
- Kevin Costain
Have tweets made us more succinct? More to the point? Does Facebook remind us to take photographs? Does Pinterest organize our minds in a visual way?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Intel's 'golden age’ of hybrid PCs more multi-tasking or more push-notification.
- cliveb
quite - that's what I was saying- your brain is naturally multi-taking, and with practice things become background tasks, and the single narrative is the story a part of our brain curates for us afterwards
- Kevin Marks
my grandmother got the biggest smile when i showed her how to say "xbox chat" or whatever it is..and they got to see their grand child on the big screen..
- Stephen M
Yeah, sorry I couldn't respond to that one before. :-)
- Kevin Fox
well i be darned .... we now can rejoice, since fast paced additions to already good product are surely fastly coming about off the feedpipe ... it'l be a hectic season of finest upgrades ... I'm sure they'l start with keyboard shortcutze. ... I mean Google Reader rules on that. Intelligent to the extreme. ..Google.com, on the other hand - are we sleeping? .. not even "/" ??.. and that...
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- pb:
Congrats Ben! Totally agree with Jason. Our latest project wouldn't have become feasible without Ben -- I'm just so glad we managed to get a fraction of his time before he left! :)
- Simon
Congratulations, Ben! You're joining an awesome team.
- Anne Bouey
Congrats, you are now a "big company"! ;))))
- K.D.
That's not my picture! They got the picture wrong! In fact, I didn't get the letter of hire either. :( Oh, Hi there, Ben...if that's your real name. ;)
- Josh Haley
Good luck Ben! With you our preferred service will go more interesting
- Roberto
from fftogo
I think there were a bunch of spam comments made to some 2009-era posts by FF employees. For some reason even after the spam is nuked, the post stays bumped.
- Stephen Mack
Yes, I blocked a spammer that was bumping old posts about FF themes and what not.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
Well, let's see this as an opportunity to raise a virtual glass to Ben and FriendFeed-that-was!
- Kevin Fox
It probably had something to do with the Tornado 2.2 release. I noticed Ben was the one who posted about the release on HN earlier. Edit: Or it could have just been a spammer. *shrugs*
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I don't think it had anything to do with the tornado release - a spammer bumped a bunch of Bret's old posts today.
- Ben Darnell
Nereye katiliyo pic! Sattiniz gittiniz dukkani!
- Ali Kerim
Here, let me save future spammers some time: Hello my name is ____ and I am an attractive young ____ _____ and I would like to contact with you so that together you and I can ___ with ____ while _____ in a highly ____ manner. Please to be responding as soon as is practical. Without your help, the _____ in U.S. dollars will go unclaimed, and the herbal ______ remedy will wither and die. Yours in all urgent seriousness, _____.
- Stephen Mack
Content and Conduit should be separate, not by law, but from a business perspective, but it seems all these companies are trying to be both
- Stephen Pickering
Stephen: in the future you will share even that. Why? Because the system will bring you better strip club experiences if you are really into that.
- Robert Scoble
Privacy is NOT the big issue of this generation. Addiction is. Stephen showed exactly why. Who cares if I want to go to a strip club? But now that you are bringing me to the best ones I'm totally addicted to the system.
- Robert Scoble
We're already seeing the first precursors to the problems we're going to have with addiction (texting while driving, marriages breaking up, etc).
- Robert Scoble
HE EXPLICITLY FILLED IT IN GUARENTEED - i get these all the time because i run 20+ twitter accounts
- dean collins
Could be a hack of a service with O Auth-connection to your Twitter-account?
- Johannes Siemers
sorry, I had to go away for a minute...I assume you are talking about oauth hacks? there are sites w/info on these types of exploits: http://oauth.net/advisor...
- Charlie Isaacs
here's the explanation I send out to those who send me those that haven't yet said "I was hacked and it's now resolved." …
- Jerome Hughes
a trillion trillion quantum fluxes, one will create a Universe
- Stephen Pickering
eg check out this url as an example of what the page looks like - http://twititre.com/ilogin... - lol dont fill in your username or password otherwise your account will start sending out these fake DM's continuing the circle.
- dean collins
The bubble is not because of the industry but rather because there is so much liquidity sloshing around due to Central Bank stimulation
- Stephen Pickering
sounds like the financial analysts who say salesforce is way too high on a p/e basis. They don't understand the subscription economy
- studentforce
One thing I've noticed, especially being an American, what a relief to watch TV shows on Netflix ad free! never in my life have I had this wonderful experience!
- Stephen Pickering
that's the reason I hate BBc America
- Kevin Marks
Instagram has valuable data for Facebook and the fact it's actually a mobile app. Something that Facebook isn't that good about right now. I mean, when was the last time you guys uploaded a photo to Facebook via FB app.
- Nir Ben Yona
A bigger picture, the browser fades having incubated high performance JavaScript, which is shifting to the server. The next Canonical platform
- cliveb
Google AdWords does not give searchers the control to interact with ads that Facebook provides. Facebook is also improving advertisers' tools every day. On mobile: there's a big difference between phones and tablets. Me thinks that tablets will allow much better monetization than phones. One example: Buying image rights right from 500px.
- Alex de Soto
Javascript that works on both client and server is a model, yes cliveb
- Kevin Marks
And this may be the new paradigm,. But I have to be able to interact, not just consume
- Francine Hardaway
from iPhone
anybody notice how cluttered the Google search page is? the first actual search result is like half way down the page now
- Stephen M
my intent is not being satisfied by google either ;-)
- Tina Chase Gillmor
To monetize mobile apps do collections of apps (linked like stories or enterprise apps) emerge?
- cliveb
a bing search for New York hotel is pretty excellent on desktop and mobile
- Stephen M
Most of my friends use Twitter for that. Like: Best restaurants or hotels in south Italy...etc. Friend's recommendation is more valuable than search.
- Nir Ben Yona
And if Siri would connect with apps, things would be even better.
- Alex de Soto
Uhmm... talking about Client/Server? Isn't that old school now?
- Kevin Costain
Canonical JavaScript architecture, missing is collections of Apps and monetizing the interest relationships
- cliveb
Apple is certainly not skeptical about advertising (TV, billboards, etc.). These things must be done delicately, or you'll ruin the spell.
- Alex de Soto
I've been ad blind for a while but it's changing. I'm inclined to agree with Robert
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Ankush: who cares? They are doing just fine, thank you very much! I hear they are making enough to pay the salaries of its 600 employees. Certainly the investors aren't leaving in droves.
- Robert Scoble
Kevin: wrong. Instagram started at Dogpatch labs at a single table.
- Robert Scoble
that's great - but at the end of the {insert time interval here} they need to monetize
- Ankush Narula
Getting the thinkers easier than pulling a Kobayashi Maru
- cliveb
Hi, waiting for the famous call. What will the theme be today? Nokia? Google? Instagram? Real time ambient information? Firebase and Fluidinfo? The freaky line?
- Robert Scoble
"The case against Apple will be more difficult to prove given that Apple was a new competitive entrant into that market and was trying to find a way to compete with a dominant market player, Amazon," - Lucas
- Charlie Isaacs
steve keeps killing my double shot when he looks down. Bah1
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Facebook and Microsoft are pretty cozy
- Da
from Android
Sort of a father and son relationship Da
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
Google+ is not an offensive against Facebook or Twitter. It's a defensive move, to unify their scattered product line. Only after they unify will they be able to compete with either Facebook OR Twitter.
- Kevin Bryan
Only Hangout from Google+ interests me, not the other fat
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
Kevin's right, it's for google to improve the ways it organises the world's information
- Kevin Marks
Lets talk about Nokia and RIM melting down next week. Amazing. And where does that put MS?
- Thomas Rector
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were/are duopolies, but of course "Crony" duopolies
- Stephen Pickering
Jerome: if other cars threaten to crash into a Google car it will try to take evasive action. If it can't, it could smartly fire off airbags to better protect humans inside.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: yes, and the liability determinations will be interesting
- Jerome Hughes
it fires off airbags at the other cars
- Kevin Marks
I think the reason Apple is so successful is that they have the best product but also this time around their prices are the same as competitors
- Stephen Pickering
schools are handing out iPads to students as they arrive as freshmen (Seton Hill University; Albeline Christian University, etc.) ...... http://chronicle.com/blogs...
- studentforce
Francine... JP is fine, when I saw him at SXSW.
- Hugh MacLeod
I have Paper on my iPad. It's phenomenal. Even I can illustrated using it
- Francine Hardaway
Scoble just justified why Rackspace pays him the big bucks.
- Hugh MacLeod
(Apple in the background chain sawing down the competition...)
- Aron Michalski
Francine, I'm still waiting for a decent stylus for iPad.
- Hugh MacLeod
I have muted. I think I shoudl go indoors
- Kevin Marks
I bought a Stylus in a Verizon store that seems okay.
- Francine Hardaway
The only weakness I see with Apple is data, like I can't get my Garageband projects from previous iPad to the new one or to the desktop, that's the place where the cloud has an advantage, but it will take time
- Stephen Pickering
It's because Apple charged to much for their PCs back then, whereas back then the Windows PCs were just as powerful, but Apple has their pricing right on the mobile, that's why no one can touch them
- Stephen Pickering
oddly just watched the last show on tc hello from a londoner in, erm, poland
- Scott Jones
I just downloaded the most gorgeous Audubon app. It will soon be in HTML5, so it can have a social component.
- Francine Hardaway
I am SO IN THE MARKET for a new tablet I can actually draw with properly. iPad's styluses are a BIG limitation. Waiting for the Galaxy Note 10.1 to come out.
- Hugh MacLeod
io12 sold out in 20 mins, student tried for academic tix, came up sold out after 30 seconds (same old, same old)
- cliveb
Apple is gonna screw themselves however with their iBook strategy
- studentforce
Hugh, is the Note 10.1 Android or Samsungs?
- Aron Michalski
Samsung tablet, powered by Android.
- Hugh MacLeod
there are so many OHTER and better distributors of eTextbooks
- studentforce
Apple has been training people on iOS UI for a while. First the phone (training wheels), then the iPad, followed by Lion, new Apple TV, etc. MS has a long way to go but can eventually achieve this if enough businesses buy into Windows 8.
- Alex de Soto
I'm so old I can remember when Steve Gilmor used to talk about whether Facebook will become more open or not.
- Hugh MacLeod
The browser is the engine for many apps in the Android. It's actually brilliant as a single engine so that apps are not as bloated. Everything is just a tab to open.
- Aron Michalski
easier to charge for an app via itunes (despite their 30%) than it is to do with an html5 mobile app/site. obviously there are existing subscription/access/paywall models for access to the app, but Apple did make that shockingly easy.
- kosso
they're (the computers in our pockets) sort of like the PS/2s that ran only terminal emulators, plus a little word processing and spreadsheets, 'cause there wasn't yet better stuff around
- Jerome Hughes
Browsers is a transitional technology, incubated Apps, UX and high perf JavaScript
- cliveb
Apps are for creating and consumption and the web is for communicating
- Stephen Pickering
Apps are for electrons and the web is for photons. We need both to work together
- Stephen Pickering
Someone will have to develop a Mother App to keep track of all the millions of apps that will be available. The Mother App will probably function pretty much like the Web does today.
- Alex de Soto
Chrome or a chromy browser is the platform that all the Google stuff works off of. I used to be miffed about it until I saw that one single engine was steering the functions through a central point. Saves space and lets the cloud feed the device.
- Aron Michalski
Oh well at least the guys are getting a point in befroe the show ends. not like last week where they saved all their insight for AFTER the show
- Tina Chase Gillmor
wow that is amazing... Microsoft did not innovate beyond core OS. I suspect they will continue to dominate in Enterprise, but lose their consumer base.
- Susan Beebe
Stephen, very happy to see new features like this, but I think the "death" part is the major users reducing their activity. I'd love to see some support from Facebook in promoting FriendFeed more to encourage those users to go back. Or maybe they don't want to? Regardless, bonus for me! Thanks Benjamin - you're awesome!
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, fair enough but major users always did come and go. Some of the departees who left said they were doing so because there was no new development. Clearly not all development is halted. Last week Paul hinted that FF may receive a major new feature, and characterized his participation as "20% time" -- I'll take that.
- Stephen Mack
I backed down off the all caps. The group "best of" is really useful, love it.
- Stephen Mack
Stephen, I agree - I'd just like some confirmation that Facebook cares about all this so I can know whether to focus my efforts on Facebook or FriendFeed or both.
- Jesse Stay
I noticed the best of on the iPhone the other day, wrote it out on a cake and then ated it.
- Josh Haley
Jesse, I think you should focus where your users are focused. What do SocialToo users want? But if they want Facebook focus, you should still keep an eye on FriendFeed, since the future Facebook will look a lot more like FriendFeed.
- Bruce Lewis
Paul Buchheit said the FB acquisition was attractive because of shared vision/direction. I would be surprised if a lot of that vision wasn't already embodied in this product right here.
- Bruce Lewis
not enough, best of day should be like a stream that can be traced back
- ffcode
My Starbucks cup isn't covered with ads
- Jerry Schuman
Actually the NYTimes pay wall isn't doing to well... three months after it was launched they announced they had 200k subscribers.. here we are 9 months later and they only have 435k users
- Stephen M
most of those 200k subscribers in the first 3 months got a deal of 99 cents
- Stephen M
Google has already implemented SPDY; firefox is now doing it too
- Kevin Marks
Who pays attention to Ads on the web?
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
I got subscriptions to WSJ, economist, forbes, atlantic with airmiles. They pile up, I throw them out. Not sure anyone reads them
- Kevin Marks
Am reminded of the recent documentary on the NYT where at a conference panel David Carr held up the printed homepage of http://www.newser.com/ with all of the NYT articles cut out... there was nothing left on their homepage. Swiss-cheese.
- Johnny C
the secret to Al Jazeerah's success is their relationship with people on the ground. When something happens, they are looking to be the 'one' brand for news for people to share the event(s) LIVE until one of their journos gets there to report. Great use of citizen journalism and professional journalism. They build their news sharing model/architecture focussed on the community with a view back to their services for global amplification.
- iconic88
Nice, the ability to consume your lame Verizon or AT$T LTE data plan in 30 minutes
- Jerry Schuman
Roku has a techcrunch and engadet channel
- Stephen M
Social graph personalization.... hmmm... I knew a company once that did that. ;-)
- Jerry Schuman
Hey, Scoble, you win about Highlight. Chelsea told me she has actually met Andy from HMB because they appeared several times in each other's Highlight:-)
- Francine Hardaway
I don't trust twitter.. people may get things wrong
- Stephen M
Speaking of Al Jazeera I just got back from DrupalCon where their lead developer did a talk where on how they built out a custom implementation using Drupal. It includes an editorial process for their writers that is optimized to get news published quickly on top of an extensive caching layer. Very impressive based on their site traffic. You can learn more and see screenshots of their...
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- Mark Krynsky
Stephen: people get things wrong in mainstream press all the time.
- Robert Scoble
I meet a WHOLE different class of people than the crowd I'm used to when I look at the #fringe stream while watching.
- Amyloo
who do you think doesn't get things wrong, stephen?
- Kevin Marks
Case in point on getting it wrong... the guy that did the video of him flying with his wings... freaking saw him all over mainstream media...
- Jerry Schuman
Same stories, right. Same thing on cable news.
- Amyloo
The thing I appreciate most about Flipboard is the instant drilldown and out capability. Example, click on a hashtag and hit Show Section.... instant gratification
- Jerry Schuman
Flipboard is nice but they need logic other than sorting by newest content in descending order. I'm a huge fan of Zite which is spot on for bringing me relevant content.
- Mark Krynsky
Let's all cheer for the 24 Hour News Cycle!!
- Frank Paynter
Yahoo!-ABC News Network Becomes the New #1 Online News Source - http://abcn.ws/GL6ypn reached a total audience of over 89 million people in the first month since they combined traffic as the Yahoo! – ABC News Network
- Stephen M
Mark, congrats on the 5 year anniversary for the lifestream blog..
- Jerry Schuman
I find much more value in "best of day" content over "latest" in app interfaces.
- Mark Krynsky
Scoble's story re "want a newspaper" like the grocery checkout person who actually asked me last week if I also wanted to buy stamps and some film. I said "WHAT?"
- Amyloo
We did this with QuickTime TV a decade ago
- Kevin Marks
they have servers that are nothing more then a giant array of HD antenas
- Jerry Schuman
that's why i have to sign in with my directv account to watch the fox news stream on their ipad app
- Stephen M
microsoft office is creaky as heck. I used to be a huge Word jockey, and I can't make it do anything anymore
- Kevin Marks
I use Google docs and spreadsheets because of collaboration
- Francine Hardaway
Kevin I can't even find the menus to do the things I used to do
- Francine Hardaway
New disruptive systems that are currently being developed in the BI space is going to finally kill off spreadsheet mentality. Pair good cloud based BI with an intuitive iPad interface and backed by things like Wolfram Alpha = game over.
- Jerry Schuman
in more important news, Justin Bieber is releasing a new single next week :)
- Stephen M
big data systems will lead the way regarding data interaction in the post-pc era
- Jerry Schuman
I liked foursquare last week when all my friends did sxsw tips of mine
- Kevin Marks
I go to Home Depot a LOT. You wouldn't want to know how many times
- Tina Chase Gillmor
There were too many of these services to gain critical mass and break out at SxSW. Everyone I talked to about social discovery apps at the event laughed and said they weren't using them.
- Evan Prodromou
Think about extending the system to support brands. You get within 100 yards of a geo-fenced brand location and it sends you collateral etc...
- Jerry Schuman
a well distributed scraping swarm of compromised mobile devices
- Jerome Hughes
really.. this isn't a Leo Laporte produced show... schedule? what the hell is that...
- Jerry Schuman
I don't know whether I will use a social discovery app; I might not want to be interruprted by someone who is 100 yards from me and wants to chat
- Francine Hardaway
Highlight ("Hipswitch") would be overwhelming in high population density locations like Manhattan or D.C. Less so in a place like Alaska, unless moose start using social networks.
- Alex de Soto
If that happens and brands start to send me collateral I will scream, Jerry
- Francine Hardaway
Is anyone else annoyed with the new @YouTube layout? Moderator removed :(
- cliveb
" just opening up an API would pollute the stream"
- Kevin Marks
I have a blog post about why Google+ has no posting API: http://evanprodromou.name/2011... . tl;dr they require that you be _present_ in order to post, to keep the quality of the conversation high. Lesson learned from Buzz.
- Evan Prodromou
I love the conversations on Google+. I am meeting new people and getting comments, and seeing/reading my friends.
- Francine Hardaway
YouTube designers seemingly removed social engagement... perhaps G+ will be back-fitted...
- cliveb
Facebook is my public network- there's people on my FB that I wished I didn't add, but now I "can't" remove. G+ is my private network with people I'm close to.
- Da
Da: why can't you remove them? I removed thousands over the years from Facebook.
- Robert Scoble
the drama would be huge if I removed then, ie my annoying uncle for example
- Da
So my uncle's daughter, my kinda favorite cousin, will see posts intended for her but not him. He'll eventually find out / hear about it., bla bla bla- it's a mess. Better to just start over with a new network
- Da
What about apps that don't support the new Retina display? Heard they look bad.
- Nir Ben Yona
I brought a 64GB version. But Apple could face a backlash over the dumb storage issues
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
iPad is great like the Model T Ford is great - any color, as long as you get black. Got an Android Asus EEE Slider tablet because it has a slider keyboard. Can't get that choice from Apple, so they don't get my business.
- Kevin Bryan
Where is Google's flagship Tablet, ...Nexus gOne...
- cliveb
Keeping my iPad1 from hearing all this chatter about the new iPad...could cause domestic issues
- Jim Posner
Sooo strange. There must be a reason for that.
- Nir Ben Yona
I know Steve will tell me why Im wrong but it just seems like an iPad, no? The New Apps are nice but not selling me to go out and buy one or feel bad I bought a 2 in Sept last year! Why am I wrong?
- Phillip Molly Malone
Discussion point: Lack of killer feature (I don't see display as killer) give Android Tablets a chance to catch up!
- Phillip Molly Malone
The HD display is definitely a game changer.
- Nir Ben Yona
the IOS 5.1 update changes the logo to 4G
- Jerry Schuman
Correct... their marketing calls HSDPA+ a 4G connection
- Jerry Schuman
So what can you do on HD iPad I can't do on iPad 2 without crippling the software the way Apple have with Siri? By the way, if you answer with anything, doesn't that mean that Apple just caused Fragmentation in the iPad community? Or is now that choice! (yes, that is an Android/Apple/Koolaide jibe)
- Phillip Molly Malone
Oh, the Apple TV dropped the ball not having Apps! This is the year of Google TV baby! (I hope ;-) )
- Phillip Molly Malone
AirPlay is a great and I may get it but as someone said, its just an adapter! Was thinking that I only use my PC upstairs as a TV now (Media Center). I would replace PC with Google TV! Apps overlaying TV killer. I want a Fantasy AFL app to overlay the Football coverage!
- Phillip Molly Malone
the thing I noticed the most on this announcement was that I never heard the phrase "reality distortion field" once in the twitterverse
- Jerry Schuman
Just updated my existing Apple TV. Interface changes applied. Dictation available on the iPhone 4s not on the iPad2 (boo!)must need a new chip. Will test Downton Abbey stream to the iPad2 from iTunes later tonight.
- Alex de Soto
I am not saying the New iPad isn't great, it is. But it isn't making me sad I got a iPad 2 in September. I would have hated myself if I got an iPad 1 in September before the iPad 2 was released!
- Phillip Molly Malone
If you're buying a new iPad, I'd recommend the 64GB WiFi model so you can shoot video and edit aplenty.
- Alex de Soto
Speaking of iPads, does any one know if there is a way to watch or listen to this from an iPad ?
- Euro Maestro
steve makes me get the upgrades whether I like it or not
- Tina Chase Gillmor
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- Ben Kepes
GarageBand is the number one reason to upgrade.
- John Taschek
agree about the high resolution screen, going on how much I love it on the phone.
- Hilary Talbot
Philiip: yes. Ben: Flipboard is the best app for iPad and Apple named it app of the year in 2010.
- Robert Scoble
I want to know what the audio components are --- the iPad has been only slightly above average so far.
- John Taschek
As Apple products normally are, John
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
yeah yeah yeah/.// someone put koolaide in your coffee ;-)
- Ben Kepes
Tweetbot just tweeted a very interesting thing: "With 4G speeds you can theoretically hit your monthly limit in ~30 secs for the $15 plan and about 10 minutes for the $50 plan."
- Nir Ben Yona
The ability to edit (trash photos) from the Photo Stream is one of the best features in iOS 5.1. That was one of the most frustrating things about the iCloud.
- Alex de Soto
I think old Windows users tend to look for an alternative to Apple just because. Android has taken Microsoft's spot as the yang to Apple's ying.
- Alex de Soto
You can do screen shots on the iPad and then edit in iPhoto.
- Alex de Soto
I could use my iPad to swat flies but doesn't mean its easy or a good idea! (unless there is an App for that I don't know about)
- Phillip Molly Malone
Hooking up a projector to the iPad makes presentations a breeze. No need to cart around a laptop.
- Alex de Soto
Can't believe there hasn't been a rant about the naming convention for "the new" iPad
- Jerry Schuman
Downton Abbey Season 2 is only available on iTunes no?
- Alex de Soto
I don't think most of the world has the amount of online TV content that the US has. I know Australia doesn't! Apps and Websites!
- Phillip Molly Malone
I'd like to move where Phillip lives as 1080p is not available over the air where I live. It's more like 1080i60 encoded with MPEG-2.
- Alex de Soto
Hey Danny, Why did no one mention @ based searches in Google showing Twitter first change? (or am I just in a special search experiment group)?
- Phillip Molly Malone
gray the studio cat is throwing himself against the door!
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Google doesn't need regular TV shows. They run YouTube!
- Vezquex
I think most people learn about and buy Roku from its partnetship with Netflix. Don't have one but my brother and parents have it and love it for Netflix.
- Amyloo
Gray is a very social cat. When he hears voices he gets excited and wants to hang out
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Apple is about an "experience", hardware is the means to end. It is what separates Apple from everyone else.
- Jerry Schuman
Tina, I have a voice-activated cat, too. She goes especially nuts if anybody dares to sing!
- Amyloo
Oh, I thought he wanted out of this conversation in the worst way in much the say way John looked like he wanted out a few minutes ago!
- Phillip Molly Malone
Vezquex: you obviously don't have young kids if you say that. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Apple needs an App called "Find My Remote."
- Alex de Soto
Maybe the coming soon is TV content network?
- Amyloo
Apple TV flatscreen will appear this year. iPhone 5 will see the light of day by the end of the year. Full refresh on Macbook and desktop lines..
- Jerry Schuman
Amen Robert and Alex! Its called iPod Touch as remote! Our "cable style box" has iPod based remote and that works for everything except turning the dam thing on and there is no on button! D'oh!
- Phillip Molly Malone
That isn't the point... I can access the content. I can even display it on the 50" tv via AirPlay. I don't get the point.
- Jerry Schuman
That was perfect "The role of flash..."
- Phil Windley
Do news websites have the oppurtunity to put ads on the articles in the news.me app?
- Stephen M
ah.. i prefer to leave comments on the providers site.. some sites have better conversation than i'd have in a silo.. example-a comment left on Wsj.com would get better convo than somewhere else about the article.
- Stephen M
I doubt they have thought that through very far. They need to get to millions of users first. Flipboard is way ahead here.
- Robert Scoble
France? the same france that said Google can't offer Google maps for free because it hurts a company that charges. hehe
- Stephen M
I think we have a show title.. Invasion of the body snatchers!
- Stephen M
wow 37 million people log out of facebook eachday.. 105 million a month.. For now those users will get a Full recreation of the Bing Homepage
- Stephen M
I just logged out of Facebook and didn't get an ad. sob.
- Robert Scoble
lol Techcrunch reported i thought it was true ;)
- Stephen M
hm, Myspace Music is awesome... i use it as my source for listening to music now.. 42 million free songs!
- Stephen M
awesome moment from Doc Searls "all companies are closed systems -- that's the problem. companies are closed systems. companies die, but cities thrive because their networked."
- Brian Hendrickson
Agreed. Everybody has built their worlds on other people's platforms
- Francine Hardaway
family, Steve does not talk with his hand. Kinda wish he did
- Tina Chase Gillmor
People are running out of time in this Pushy world. Gotta aggregate and make it fast nowadays.
- Aron Michalski
what happened to the beginning of my comment? what I meant to say is, unlike people in my family, Steve does not talk with his hands
- Tina Chase Gillmor
I thought you were referring to his puppetry career.
- Aron Michalski
very id of Scoble. "I have an impulse and want it satisfied"
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Ask any business traveller what connectivity is about; paying for hotel internet, finding free access points, delivering your mortgage to your telco every month...
- Aron Michalski
finding a way to provide us with a connection to our infostream and maximize the connection is really important. There's no time to accidentally find important news.
- Aron Michalski
I like having books too. But I'm realizing I use them VERY little now
- Tina Chase Gillmor
I used to like having books, and then I started moving every couple of years, and I got rid of them. Everything I've ever read is now digitized.
- Francine Hardaway
I have them both. TVONTV is like DNA for me. The charger card slot for watching, the bandwidth pirates, the inability to know when realtime is/was...
- Aron Michalski
Where's Kevin Marks? He was talking about identity systems and who would win in this space three years ago
- Francine Hardaway
That's because Apple, Amazon, Facebook operate in a total free market, so they have to be productive and competitive. AT&T and Comcast have no incentive to innovate
- Stephen Pickering
Steve hasn't mentioned Dave Winer either
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
It is weird how these companies are becoming Vertically integrated but that's because the price of techonology keeps halving every 12-18 months.
- Stephen Pickering
Gray, our studio cat, is in love with mimi. They did not get thrown outside today, therefore they are running around and making noise. Thanks cats!
- Tina Chase Gillmor
I don't get the big deal about apps, survey after survey shows that most people ignore them(on mobile) Consumers ignore most apps on their smartphones – USATODAY.com http://usat.ly/y20Sr1
- Stephen M
if this doesn't wrok, I'll go get an ethernet cable
- Kevin Marks
Change just comes much more slowly than anyone expects. People don't whip into apps on the desktop if they already have what they think is a satisfactory solution,
- Francine Hardaway
I don't think what Path did was all that bad.. I mean, you are using a mobile device, and the cell phone provider has to know where you are, who you are calling... you care about privacy, use a can and some string
- Stephen M
there should certainly be disclosures about how your data is used up front - and there should be an option to delete your data - facebook sync for iphone was doing this - and then on their website they let you delete the synced data
- Ankush Narula
NCIS has a great social media presence... a lot of the actors are on twitter, and tweet during the episode, or provide behind the scenes pics of episodes they are shooting
- Stephen M
CBS and American Idol are making me want to watch their shows "Live"... the behind the scenes tweeting is really nice for their shows
- Stephen M
Kevin: I listed to an interview with Chris Columbus, the movie producer behind Harry Potter and he totally disagrees with you about 3D. Interesting that this argument is happening in lots of places.
- Robert Scoble
3D works when you have a very big screen that fills your visual field. without that it is a fishtank that reduces suspension fo disbelief as you can see the edges
- Kevin Marks
One good thing about the DNC coming to town, all the cell providers are improving their networks, or upgrading it!
- Stephen M
I prefer GetGlue.. you get real Stickers!
- Stephen M
motorola already ships loads of home entertainment boxes, and Google just bought them
- Kevin Marks
do you really care what other people are watching? particularly in the age of DVR?
- Ankush Narula
Highlight sounds a little like the flappers in Gulliver's Travels.
- Hilary Talbot
yes, because I can see them reating to it on twitter
- Kevin Marks
I do... some shows I have to watch when they air
- Stephen M
Steve + JP consumer web observations turns up in Chatter Timeline
- cliveb
Microsoft played around with this in the 90's. Looks like Google is looking to make this real. A complete Home O/S, controlling Media and Electrical Systems
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
I only watch sports live - maybe Daily Show or Colbert if I'm awake and home - otherwise it's pretty much all on demand
- Ankush Narula
I wrote about it in my blog. It's a different business model for "free mobile apps".
- Itai Frenkel
In the future we will have algorithms that would extract the metadata from the data automatically. All the facebook "metadata" would be less a competitive advantage.
- Itai Frenkel
Gilmor - it could be backed up in the cloud, but still have different privacy settings (such as disallowing certain type of data mining)
- Itai Frenkel
You can now get a daily or weekly email digest for anybody's feed on FriendFeed. You'll get a daily or weekly email with the most popular posts from that person's feed. To get the email, click the "Email/IM" link at the top of anyone's feed, and select the "Best of day" or "Best of week" email option.
Thanks to Kevin for doing a great design for what turned out to be a more complex set of UI options than we had originally anticipated, and thanks to Tudor for implementing the email backend.
- Bret Taylor
I now get the FriendFeed Feedback posts as a Best of Day email so it doesn't fill up my feed, but I don't miss feedback. I also set up a "Best of Day" email for my "Technology people" friend list so I get a pretty good overview of tech news every day via email.
- Bret Taylor
This is a really cool idea Bret, I wish you can make that an RSS feed option as well. I'd be much more likely to read summaries in RSS than in email.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Casey: Thanks for the tip. What's the 7 before the "?" mean in the URL? The number of likes or replies needed to be included?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
this is killer, the random influx of email during the day was kinda getting fail-ish. I love the daily digest.
- Drew Lucas
Very cool! Any way to get archives of previous months? (especially helpful for those of us who leave the internet for weeks at a time...)
- Mitchell Tsai
Just curious - at what time of the day will we get these emails ? Midnight US-Time, or will it respect our timezones ?
- Ahsan Ali
Ahsan: it is somewhat random right now when the emails are sent, but we built in the backend capability to control what time they are sent, and we plan on exposing that control to users in the future. Right now, it is kind of random - sorry!
- Bret Taylor
But what exactly is "Best"? Is it anything that has a certain number of likes/comments?
- Laura Norvig
@Bret LOL THAT WAS MY PROJECT! I will release it tomorrow. But you've also did it and killed my friendfeed application **sigh** But mine has multi-reporting weekly-daily-monthly at the same time and adjustable entry count!
- Alp
@Bret please consolidate me or I won't code new apps with you api! :-)
- Alp
Alp: we were not trying to withhold data. Later today the documentation will be updated to reflect the ability to obtain "Best of" for users. The feed id will be USERNAME/summary/N (similar to "Best of" for lists)
- Benjamin Golub
Hi Ben, that is pretty funny, I tried that URL earlier today to see if it has been secretly released :)
- Paul Kinlan
Bret: While Twitter struggle to keep their fail whale under control, you guys are developing stuff like this. Amazing - Thanks!
- Jim Connolly
awesome feature, this will be highly useful for my corporate group ideas / content sharing; projects, etc.... THANK YOU :)
- Susan Beebe
Great work. I especially like that it works on lists too.
- Meryn Stol
my inbox might say different, but I like that :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Wow, this is really neat! And it links into the idea I expressed earlier, re: reducing signup friction / enabling limited guest privileges. Imagine if I could embed one of my FF rooms on my personal web site, and enable people to subscribe to that feed by e-mail with just a couple of clicks... rather than saying "you can get e-mail notifications but you have to sign up for Friendfeed first." "sign up" -- though admirably lightweight on FF -- is still a huge barrier.
- Adam Lasnik
is there a love button cause I dont like this option I LOVE this option..great work guys
- (jeff)isageek
Three options I would like (1) Can I select "top 100" instead of "top 30"? (2) Could I select both "best of day" and "best of week"? (3) How about older timeperiods? I'd love to get an e-mail with stuff from last week or Mar 2009? Start & end dates? Anything to help me read FriendFeed off-line would be great since I spend long periods off-line at festivals (especially during summer time) or overseas. - Awesome job guys!
- Mitchell Tsai
So this works on groups too, cool! But we still cannot see Best of for groups on the site on friends lists. :-( I have several friends lists that include just groups and when I select to view the best of the page it's empty (even though if I got to the individual best of for those groups there are entries there).
- Kol Tregaskes
does anyone know of a web service that can do this? (I'm thinking weekly email updates of my favorite feeds/people) I don't think there's anything like friendfeed ..
- Ac0n (former Franc)
Ross and Dan made this video to illustrate the advanced technology we use behind the scenes at FriendFeed. (Ross and Dan, you are amazing - I can't believe how awesome this thing turned out)
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
How very creative. This is very fluid and cool.
- Louis Gray
OK, not exactly what I was expecting, but very cool.
- Kevin Arth
Anyone have the video somewhere other than Youtube? it's banned here in Turkey and I can't wait until we get home (next month) to watch it!!
- Chris Myles
Bret, this video should be titled: A Love Song for FriendFeed ! Great vid (and music) !
- Ahsan Ali
This is superb. I just showed it to my 5 year old son who enjoys Lego and has already taken some great photos, including one or two of his toys. So now he has the seed of the idea that, in time, he could take multiple stills and put them together to make moving pictures. Thank you very much for posting it and giving me and him that opportunity. Maybe, he might use FriendFeed one day too!
- John W Lewis
I think they need to make a full stop-motion version of the Matrix in legos. Now THAT would be awesome. I wonder what bullet-time looks like in LEGO?
- Bret Taylor
i'd pay to see the stop animation lego matrix, but not the sequels
- patrick
"Equipment Generously Provided By Casey Muller" - hahaha!! THIS IS AWESOMESAUCE!!! I love the creative energy and vibe in this video... LOTS of work went into that one! Thanks guys!! :)
- Susan Beebe
Genius, how much time did that all take?
- Wayne Hornsey
Chris Myles: if you want ot - DM me an address and I'll mail you a copy.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
"As a devoted FriendFeed user, I have tried to convince all of my friends and family to join the site, but a handful of them never quite got their accounts set up properly. With our new Recommend friends feature, I can fix their FriendFeed experience by recommending subscriptions to them." Try it out at http://friendfeed.com/friends...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
What am I supposed to get when I click the 'recommend friends' link on someone's pop-up? Currently, the popup just goes away and I don't get directed anywhere else.
- FFing Enigma
Fred: yah, unfortunately, you can only recommend people who you are subscribed you and who are also subscribed back to you.
- Bret Taylor
Mark, I didn't submit a bug report since what is supposed to happen wasn't actually spelled out on the blog post or here; this might be the intended functionality... I hope not, but it's possible.
- FFing Enigma
Tina: it is supposed to pop up a dialog. Sorry for the trouble - we will look into it.
- Bret Taylor
At first I did not understand this, but now that I am checking it out, it is brilliant and addresses much of what we have complained about. NOW what will we complain about?
- Liza + = ?
Just to confirm Bret, the first image in the blog post is what the pop up is supposed to look like, right? Because that's nothing like what the ff.com/recommend page looks like....
- FFing Enigma
I notice that new subscriptions are automatically added to one's home feed. I consider that kind of a bug.
- Meryn Stol
Tina: yes, that is correct. The http://friendfeed.com/friends... page is just a list of people that we think could use some friend recommendations since they have few subscriptions. If you click on any of the "Recommend" links on that page, you will see the same, standard "Recommend friends" dialog.
- Bret Taylor
Where would we find recommendations that others suggest to us?
- Fred Yankowski
@Bret, who receive the recommandation see also who is the recommender?
- Roberto
Fred: You will receive an email as well as a notification on the top of your feed.
- Ross Miller
Roberto: yes, they see who recommended
- Bret Taylor
Bret, if I recommend friends to people who haven't signed in for a long time, will they get email? A lot of my bored friends are not active FF users I think. (quite logical)
- Meryn Stol
Not getting the pop-over when I click 'recommend' on the friendfeed.com/friends/recommend page either... FFox 3.0.12 if it's relevant.
- FFing Enigma
and can I see who has accepted my recommendation?
- Roberto
Roberto: You won't be notified if they accept/deny as the recommender.
- Ross Miller
Ross: Ah, it just appeared on my feed. Cool. (And thanks Meryn)
- Fred Yankowski
Meryn: yes, they will get an email with your recommendations
- Bret Taylor
from email
Bret, I accidently just received an email with previous recommendations. I had already viewed them through the web-interface. But indeed, it's there. Email looks good too, as I expected of course. :)
- Meryn Stol
hey Robert Scoble....I have a trade proposal....you send my name to all your friends...i send your name to all of my friends for the rest of my life....
- Bob DeMarco
I would like that deal, too, Scoble. I like this a lot.
- Ben Hanten
Bob: I charge $1 per friend. :-) just kidding, but the UI makes it so hard to send you to more than a few people.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Bret: You guys rock! This is so much better than FollowFriday, which I recommended just a while back. Now, I'm waiting for some recommendation emails! :)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
If there’s something about friends and family not having their account set up properly, I’d prefer a way to recommend them the streams they forgot to add. For example, I could tell them “You forgot to add your Digg stream and your fourth and eight blog. Here’s the link.” Then he could just click the recommendation and had it set up easily.
- Natsuki Seika
As I have lots of subscriptions the pop-up window is *really* slow and always has been since the new UI (same thing for amending friends lists). :-( I like the feature though, so I could make a new friends list of my most recommended users and use that each time for each user?
- Kol Tregaskes
"Today we are launching version 2 of the FriendFeed API for beta testing. We focused on making the API simpler to use, and we added number of compelling new features." Documentation: http://friendfeed.com/api...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
nice, good to see OAuth support, this will enable a larger 3rd party ecosphere around FriendFeed, I hope
- Jeroen De Miranda
After going through the documentation and playing around with some feeds, I love the fact that you can now see the subscriber lists of people who have their feeds set to private as long as you are subscribed to them and authenticate (mimicking the main site functionality). One thing that's absent is a discussion of Direct Messages. Do they show up in feeds if you authenticate? How do we find just direct messages?
- Mark Trapp
Mark: direct messages are accessed using the feed ID "filter/direct". Read more about feed IDs at http://friendfeed.com/api.... Also direct messages appear in the "home" feed.
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin: ahhh, I see it now. I missed it when skimming that list over. Thanks!
- Mark Trapp
Can you post the wget version of the command line?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget --user=bgolub --password=passwd --post-file=MyPhoto.jpg http://friendfeed-api.com/v2... should work. In theory. Edit: nope. I'm not sure it's possible to do with wget.
- Mark Trapp
Gabe: wget doesn't support multipart forms as a design decision. If you post a file, FriendFeed returns a 404, and if you post data, the query is too long for wget to handle.
- Mark Trapp
Woowoo, bgolub's password is “passwd” ;-)
- Amit Patel
Amit: I wonder how many people tested that :)
- Benjamin Golub
Thanks to bgolub posting his password, I now have all of FriendFeed's secret documents about notorious users, useless metrics, Justin Timberlake's promoting FF on Oprah's show, hiring Colbert as a spokesperson, Ev Williams being just a “distraction”. TechCrunch is going to love this! ;)
- Amit Patel
Yes big big thanks to the whole team for all their hard work!!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
@Subhasish Vodafone's press statement a couple of months back was generic w.r.t. SE Asia which was assumed to include India. Bharati made an official press release with Tim Cook that they will be launching in India in partnership. What puzzles me is the speeds that they will be able to support on their networks. popular high speed 3G technologies are CDMA based, UMTS & HSDPA: http://www.apple.com/pr... Though this was in the print edition of yesterdays BS, I can't find it online.
- Parth Awasthi
Considering that I am a very frequent user even with crappy GPRS speeds on my crummy (for browsing) SE; I will appreciate anything that is even trivially better.
- Parth Awasthi
from twhirl
when Scrabble did the 'iPad for the board and iphones for the tiles" thing, it was funny, but the idea of shared plus private is important
- Kevin Marks
there is talk about ubuntu tv getting launched at ces. can it make a play?
- Alex Williams
Apple prefer selling Hardware rather than Software.
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
Ubuntu? u mean linux? the OS widely known for their outstanding UI?
- Stephen M
XBOX 360 with one of the LIve TV partners is a great way to watch TV.. you just talk to it
- Stephen M
Unity is the Ubuntu UI - hated by the faithful meant for the masses.
- Alex Williams
My 70 year old mom loves her ViZio with the built in Netflix..she doesn't have to switch inputs, just just presses the Netflix button on the remote
- Stephen M
did you see the Doctor Who Literal Video of Total Eclipse of the Heart?
- Kevin Marks
Would Siri on an Apple TV, make Search on TV more fun and interesting
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
And this 70 year old mom likes her AppleTV with the built in Netflix. She has trained herself (pant pant) to switch inputs. Could it be easier, I suppose. Is it great as it is, Yes.
- Francine Hardaway
I finally have audio-only feed, hi everyone! Happy New Year from Kaula Lumpur (for this week). Am hearing a lot of talk about TV...the reason I go online is to get away from TV. Oh the irony. :)
- Charlie Isaacs
re: apps vs. browsers .... Mobile users lean toward apps over browsers [study]
- studentforce
Windows Phone won't take off. In the UK its all about Apple and Android/Google. In Europe (outside of the UK pretty much) NO ONE has an Apple...its quite astounding. Its all about Google.Android and nothing to do with Apple..which is interesting
- Scott Jones
In for the last "Gang" of the year.. :)
- Kevin Costain
Scott: everytime I'm in Europe I see iPhones all over the place. I don't know what Europe you live in.
- Robert Scoble
That *is* a big indictment. I would think someone would get one just to be contrarian.
- Bruce Lewis
Heh Robert. Talking about Central Europe. I'm British but have been through Slovakia, Hungary, Poland etc and in this part of Europe there are zero iPhones/iPads and basically no Apple. But every 15 year old kid in all these countries has an android phone. Apple dont exist in the new Europe. Which is surprising. I had to get a Samsung as I couldnt get an Apple. But MS....well...they have no chance in Europe.
- Scott Jones
I wish Steve was more Italian and used his hands to talk more ;-)
- Tina Chase Gillmor
It's always a "new" world though. There was a time when Android didn't exist at all in this "new" world. Things change. Never say never. :)
- Kevin Costain
Are people talking about Roku much? One of my users was asking for a Roku channel.
- Bruce Lewis
Bruce: I see Roku come up here and there. But this is a pretty heavy Android iOS show.
- Robert Scoble
...Glad I caught the last GG of 2011 - ...love you guys - 2012 needs more high power women in tech, BTW - Hey John, Scobes, Mark - ...and Hey SG!
- Rocky Barbanica
Know what you mean Robert. What's interesting though is I now stream and download everything...erm..for free. Monitisation is an issue for companies I would say
- Scott Jones
When the edge is so powerful, does an edge to core strategy really make sense?
- Todd Hoff
Netflix peaked in 2011. Streaming video's becoming a commodity with Comcast, Amazon, Vudu... Netflix is actually falling behind in terms of first run films.
- Ken Sheppardson
I think Louis CK made the money for production costs on the shows themselves (RE: Rolling Stone's article on his recent shows).. the money he made on the online special was allot more gravy..
- Kevin Costain
Ken: I think you're right now - but that will change. It is changing.
- Kevin Costain
People don't realize how good OTA quality is now that they've gone digital.
- Bruce Lewis
Predict THIS - Rocky's running for Pacifica City Counsel 2012
- Rocky Barbanica
Robert, if you live in Half Moon Bay the view looks better than anything that would be on TV anyway. :-) But seriously, I think the percentage of cable use should be lower given the signal available to a lot of people now.
- Bruce Lewis
It's like waking up and realizing you've been sold a lie all your life that we are the most special country and we run it on real principles, and we have a real democracy. At least these tools allowed us to wake up and see how fake the so called 'establishment' really are
- Stephen Pickering
Kevin: and that's the power they had. Not sure they really used it well.
- Robert Scoble
I think the OWS activities were just a starting point.. that is probably a sign of things to come.. I wonder if we'll see a full-scale revolt somehow. or even if that is possible.. ?
- Kevin Costain
That would be 'crony' capitalism or in Russia Oligarchy?
- Stephen Pickering
Robert Scoble: what's unfortunate is that each 'conversion' or migration caused MAJOR economic upheaval.
- studentforce
The Black Bloc is also the darker side of all this stuff.... I don't know what it all means.. :(
- Kevin Costain
Godaddy testified to congress in favor of SOPA. When they testify against I'll be satisfied. Blog posts don't cut it.
- Bruce Lewis
Giving the number of millionaires and people in power - it's clear that those with most of the money are likely to hold most of the power. They are few.
- Kevin Costain
Perhaps whatever is in FRONT of the masses, is the leader. It could be anything really, no?
- Kevin Costain
Kevin, no, no, no, the whole meme is getting away from the power of the Lowest Common Denominator
- Stephen Pickering
I think eventually we'll see the rise of fake people leading masses (like that fake pop star in Japan).. humans created virtually to lead the masses..
- Kevin Costain
yes Stephen: "TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose the audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests." - David Foster Wallace
- Kevin Marks
The only way I know how to get ahold of anyone directly is via email. Every other method is like waving frantically at someone while they are speeding away and their windows are tinted.
- Todd Hoff
Waiting also -- with a different audio/camera connection .. see how that works.
- John Taschek
Hey this works out very well. Get to watch live for once (9 to 5er in Central time). Plus, bonus! As I'm loading up the Kindle Fire I got for my parents, there are all these real geeks in chat to whom I can ask questions.
- Amyloo
Doesn't show you're live. Let me try again.
- John Taschek
I'll tell Christmas jokes while we are waiting to stall for time. Did you hear that one of Santa's reindeer now works for Proctor and Gambel? [Its true, Comet cleans sinks!]
- Charlie Isaacs
Apple/Microsoft don't want to compete. They only want to use anticompetitive tactics and bogus patent lawsuits, they are desperate.
- Charbax
Year Robert, MWC is an even bigger Android show just a month later.
- Charbax
Tina, agree on Best Buy, that is going to hurt them
- Charlie Isaacs
Charlie - the old adage ship via FedX for less handling!
- cliveb
Last year there were 1500 booths at CES showcasing Android devices, 32 with Windows related devices, this year there'll be over 2500 booths at CES showcasing Android stuff and even fewer Windows Phone
- Charbax
android isn't just about phones any more
- Kevin Marks
my guess $40 Million (or something like that) for the main pre keynote and biggest hall and promo materials, my guess Google will take it next year
- Charbax
Steve is drinking out of his John Lennon glass today
- Tina Chase Gillmor
the question for me is how many non-phone, non-tablet devices are running android charbax. Cameras, TVs, photo frames, etc
- Kevin Marks
Tell him to say "All we are saying is give peace a chance
- Charlie Isaacs
It sure as hell will never be Nokia ;) I agree Google will do it the year after next ... if the world hasn't ended.. obviously ;)
- kosso
Yeah Kevin, I wonder at which point Canon/Nikon/Sony/Panasonic/JVC start putting Android in their DSLR and point and shoots and camcorders, provide photo apps, direct picasa/flickr uploads. Maybe Google releases ARM Powered Google TV, Android laptops, Android platform for E Ink ereaders
- Charbax
My Jawbone Up told me that I was lethargic so I attached it to the back of Lance's bike
- Charlie Isaacs
within a year most HDTVs will have Google TV integrated
- Charbax
ARM Powered Google TV costs only $25 in parts to add to a HDTV including a 1080p webcam for Google+ Hangouts
- Charbax
But it is a good point. If stream is becoming limited by infrastructure provider plans and caps; why isn't that being solved by anyone. Last mile is limited. Spectrum is limited. What is the innovation to infrastructure that will solve it? Is anyone working on these to give us hope?
- Michael A. Romig
GoDaddy caved, and said they'll sit back and see what everyone else thinks - for now. Todd Cochrane from Geek News Central had a phone interview with Warren Adelman, the new GoDaddy CEO.
- kosso
KKR and Silver Lake Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures
- Charlie Isaacs
I think it's time Google got in to the Domain registration and DNS management business.
- kosso
@kosso - of course Sean Bean is no longer on the show ...
- John Taschek
I don't know how anyone was still on GoDaddy in the first place
- Michael Mahemoff
I have google apps domains that are white label GoDaddy ones
- Kevin Marks
Wait a sec. They "caved", but if you read the press release they admit their General Counsel, Christine Jones, helped write it. Does anyone really think they are doing a full reversal here?
- Michael A. Romig
Would you buy domains from Google? And manage your DNS records through them? I would.
- kosso
Kevin : interesting. I didn't know they did that. I think Google should do it all themselves. They could also strike some interesting info/ad deals for content etc.. it would be an interesting market. As if (someone like) GoDaddy got in to advertising a la adsense.
- kosso
maybe Obama should just announce he'd veto any SOPA bill, that'd give him some online support
- Charbax
Then that lends credence to the SOPA purpose being much broader that safe havens. Like Forbes "The Gread SOPA Conspiracy" goo.gl/exQTR. The content providers want more "controls".
- Michael A. Romig
Charlie, definitely: Take out the evil Patent Trolls
- cliveb
yeah! aha! that password is gonna protect you
- studentforce
your printer cartridge is full, but too old
- Jerome Hughes
I think you are the victim of being an early adopter, not a conspiracy of dis-operability. Scoble's HDMI example aside.
- Michael A. Romig
We'll create an encrypted darknet if they try to block stuff, the prob is maybe they'll block or slow down all packets that look like they may be used for accessing the whole darknet
- Charbax
on the moon? I thought my expenses were bad
- Kevin Marks
4K2K Apple TV for under $2K, bring it on
- Charbax
Apple brings in a much bigger base than slingbox and legitimacy. People will partner with Apple rather than go to guns against them.
- Michael A. Romig
Charlie that's funny but instead I would like to get the bike to power the tv. If you keep the pace... no problem. If you get slow the picture deteriorates
- Tina Chase Gillmor
voice controlled tv will come from Apple. Via Siri(ish)
- kosso
on the 6th day of Christmas my true-love gave to me... a bullwhip a crackin'
- Tina Chase Gillmor
If the set-top-box hardware costs $50 external and $25 internal, these types of functionalities aren't really a differentiator on a $1000-$2000 HDTV
- Charbax
Wifi is the standard, but maybe it shouldn't be. Why couldn't the market crack the WiMax nut, for example. What about the latest wireless bluetooth, will that compete?
- Michael A. Romig
It could happen, but it is the early adopter problem again. All it takes are those chips that support on the fly packet inspection and prioritization to get commoditized into home devices. Of course you can do that today with higher-end network solutions. Just not your house. So I'm thinking demand just isn't there yet for the market to give you what you want.
- Michael A. Romig
Android devices use the MHL connector/dock which is up to 20Gbps over HDMI, mirroring can't really compete with that. Mirroring is for glorified remote controlling
- Charbax
Scoble has an OC192 coming into his house
- Charlie Isaacs
I think you should end the show NOW !!
- studentforce
Apple doesn't want to include HDMI outputs cause they want you to buy extra devices
- Charbax
some of us have been doing this with wires and projectors for many years
- Jerome Hughes
if you have a popular YouTube account they encode your HD videos in realtime
- Charbax
are you holding your iphone with your left hand?
- Charbax
Scoble ran cables out of his windows and down the stairway
- Charlie Isaacs
Charlie: nope. Just wifi. But my airport express is right over my downstairs TV.
- Robert Scoble
I don't think the politicians/Obama are corrupt
- Charbax
Apple needs to copy Sonos. I have Sonos setup in 8 rooms with Spotify and MOG and zero issues with wireless. They use their own mesh network in the house.
- Jim Long
michael - find out when Lamar is appearing in public over xmas and talk to him
- Kevin Marks
@charbax powerline is not all that great, and very unpredictable. A better solution is MOCA if you want to get to other rooms and have coax.
- Jim Long
can you talk about sex and religion when you are done with politics? :-p
- Charlie Isaacs
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- lucyjohnson91
Streaming to a nightlight is beyond wasteful. Having computers in the bedrooms of kids is not a good idea. You need to read up on your child policies.
- marstein
Cool if Jobsworth makes a guest appearance, even a cameo.
- cliveb
Hey guys! Tina, it's your turn now. ACTION.
- Nir Ben Yona
JP is not going to make it I'm afraid, clive.
- Kevin Marks
Just before the first iPad was shown by Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer showcased upcoming Tablets at CES, that were suppose to be released in that fall in partnership with HP.
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
Sometimes acquisitions are the fastest way to destroy value (no idea why)
- cliveb
The problem is that Huffington Post was acquired for $300 million at same time that TC was bought for about $30 million. I could see this collision coming from 100 miles away.
- Robert Scoble
Facebook recently brought Gowalla and just burried it!
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
Moe: I would have buried Gowalla too. In fact, I did.
- Robert Scoble
are you guys doing the gang twice a week now every week?
- Laura Norvig
Is it really the expense that's the issue? Windows 8 isn't released yet, is it?
- Brian Hendrickson
that would be amazing, Laura; or at least do one Gillmor Gang and one News Gang
- franzstehrn
Once a week, sorry. But sometimes we delay a show until Monday.
- Robert Scoble
I'd buy a Windows 8 tablet -- it's exciting that their app-building APIs are Web based. It'll be fun to make apps compared to Java.
- Brian Hendrickson
wow I connect in late and I instantly get Scoble monitor envy
- Charlie Isaacs
cliveb i forgot about that -- no wonder devs are so enamored with it. I did see a cool "responsive" app for different screen sizes - built with a webos framework
- Brian Hendrickson
I write in MSWord (a lot of time on airplanes w/out wifi) and then publish to blog or pdf. I usually code in Eclipse or xCode console
- Charlie Isaacs
I would be up the creek currently at home without having a full OS/Environment. So yeah, it's still very important.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
offline I use TextWrangler or SubEthaEdit
- Kevin Marks
Kevin does your editor also work as a signaling device?
- Brian Hendrickson
Facts, Amazon already has a patent license from Microsoft...More facts...(as of july 2011: Office 2010 continues to be the fastest-selling version of Microsoft Office in history with over 100 million licenses sold since its release a year ago.
- Stephen M
Can you invite Steve Ballmer onto the Show?
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
You guys are dreaming. You should live in my world. Small businesses use Word, email, and .ppt. They don't want to change.
- Francine Hardaway
Really depends on teh kind of Enterprise. Some businesses are still used to needing to format documents nicely and are used to doing that in word.
- Laura Norvig
Sharepoint is your grandmother's attic -- where you go to store stuff you don't ever want to see again -- Benioff
- Charlie Isaacs
Way to bring it back to reality, Francine! Although agile small businesses with younger staff tend to use cloud apps more. some work entirely with google apps.
- Laura Norvig
Small businesses aren't where you think they are
- Francine Hardaway
Jerry, that's right! They attach word documents to email:-)
- Francine Hardaway
...and there's MS Access, Project and Visio. They are very persistent in certain circles.
- Alex de Soto
Microsoft Has A Dozen Billion Dollar Businesses
- Stephen M
I'd like to know who (profession) uses what at different age: 50+ uses ? 15-20 yrs uses ? 20 - 25 yrs uses ? 25 - 40 yrs? 40 - 50 yrs?
- studentforce
Even though at Alcatel-Lucent we have moved to a Jive Platform people still use the MSOffice tools and store interesting docs and ppts in Jive Enterprise
- Charlie Isaacs
Microsoft Sold 5 Million Seats Of Office 365 In Less Than Three Months and 90% of those are small businesses
- Stephen M
do you like it, or do you just live with it?
- Kevin Marks
Charlie, it's scary how awful it is, really. Only use is version control/checkout.
- Laura Norvig
Small biz likes keeping a firm grip. WinOffice over WebSocial tools
- cliveb
it doesn't matter that Sharepoint is lame -- it's cheap and IT can install it behind the firewall, that makes it important.
- Brian Hendrickson
if goog docs was more robust people would jump fast. No loyalty to MS like there used to be
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Stephen: and Box.net has something like 8 million ustomers and is doubling every 11 months.
- Robert Scoble
site licensing makes it an all or nothing decision, need to mount a major project to save anything
- Jerome Hughes
sharepoint is really bad when people try to use it for knowledge management...trying to store docs that can solve customer issues in there
- Charlie Isaacs
E-mail will persist as long as there are lawyers. Where else will people place those lengthy legal disclaimers?
- Alex de Soto
When does the 2010 Web arrive Rob :D
- David Lloyd
Tina, yep. I've tried to switch to google docs but there are bugs, load issues, and lack of complexity in formatting tools.
- Laura Norvig
I used to know how to format thinsg in word
- Kevin Marks
these days I write HTML or code instead
- Kevin Marks
Google apps just suck, even LAPD is dumping Google apps gmail
- Stephen M
Tina: That's true, but maybe from the pricing point. Most people would probably use Office if it wasn't so pricey.
- Nir Ben Yona
Office is still huge in Overseas Markets like Africa and the Middle East
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
There's QuickOffice Pro for the iPad. That will keep Office in use for a while.
- Alex de Soto
sometimes when my kids write papers they cant do it on Google docs BUT teachers dont iinsist on Word any more because Google is free
- Tina Chase Gillmor
sharepoint is not cheap next to open source content management
- Jerome Hughes
I use Google Docs because I travel so much. When I work with an enterprise client, they want me to send a Word doc because they want to download the doc to read when THEY are traveling and offline. And when I work with small businesses and startups, they don't have time to learn any new software so they use Office for Mac:-)
- Francine Hardaway
Microsoft DID NOT announce Office the ipad.. it was a rumor..why are you reporting that as fact
- Stephen M
By the way, I loaded a new app today for windows... try MetroTwit..its beautiful, and awesome too
- Stephen M
Brian yes. But I write a lot on airplanes without wifi and in conferences with crummy wifi, and I need to draft offline more than you think
- Francine Hardaway
I want to work with the Wookey! (hint nudge wink)
- cliveb
I am wondering about how this will affect the SAP/Salesforce relationship...
- Charlie Isaacs
My company is a huge Microsoft partner, gives me more reason to bash on them to make them better Stephen M
- Charlie Isaacs
I think eventually people will run their own cloud software the way they adopted running their own PCs in the '80s. it's the mainframe era of the cloud.
- Brian Hendrickson
you can get a Windows Phone for 99 cents :)
- Stephen M
I went to the real-time crunch-up, stood at a Mic and asked Jack Dorsey why Twitter wasn't decentralized like e-mail. he said the users didn't care if it was decentralized.
- Brian Hendrickson
Yes, I thought it was awesome, but the media nearly drove him under
- Francine Hardaway
MS has enough resources where they can retain their old style legacy thinking and create a new division with "new style thinking" and just let the old appendage wither and go away on its own
- Charlie Isaacs
Microsoft is doing so bad with developers they can't sell their developer tools...oh wait, its a billion dollar business thats up 11% year over year
- Stephen M
Reed may be inline to succeed Ballmer (but up in the air now)
- cliveb
Someone needs to replace Steve Ballmer fast
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
Stephen: Box.net doubled in the same year. WHich business would you rather have?
- Robert Scoble
it's not like MS is going to crash and burn, but if they don't move forward, what are they?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
why do you really need email if you have threaded conversation tools?
- Laura Norvig
Microsoft had a record sales/revenue year..why replace him
- Stephen M
good pt Tina, also, what is their dev growth rate vs. Apple and Adroid? I paid my $99 for xcode dev without hesitation, but I don't buy ms dev licenses any more, only at my company
- Charlie Isaacs
Regardless $$ Ballmer still needs a cloudy successor.
- cliveb
Today you should thank me, as well for the annoying small business insights
- Francine Hardaway
I think Microsoft avoiding CES is a mistake, and seems to be based on the cost to have a keynote speaker. #gillmorgang
- Zennie Abraham
I brought the first live stream to the NFL Draft in 2007. NFL copied it in 2008. #gillmorgang
- Zennie Abraham
Problem with SOPA is it gives power to fraudulent take down claims, even with the penalties. This is already a REAL PROBLEM on YouTube #gillmorgang
- Zennie Abraham
My web-based twitter hasn't changed yet, as far as I can tell.
- Laura Norvig
the Path thing is a demographic thing. Rich, smart, techies use Apple products. That's all.
- Laura Norvig
From (very) recent experience, developing for the fragmented Android ecosystem is a pain in the ass, compared to iOS. That's why iOS seem to come first for devs.
- kosso
They've changed it so much, we, the people who made Twitter what it is today, will leave.
- kosso
they know we won't leave, we put up with the site being down half the time for years
- Kevin Marks
Testing is a pain the ass. SAP just announced delayed release of a community platform to two million users because of problems that showed up during late testing.
- Michael Krigsman
not testing is even more of a pain in the ass
- Kevin Marks
Twitter is now a product being led by too much money, managed by people searching for a business model, hiring too many people without a clue. IMHO
- kosso
Robert, life is about putting up with third parties we don;t like :-)
- Michael Krigsman
how/why is Path any better/different than what is already out there?
- Laura Norvig
just joined ... were you talking about the Kindle? the NOOK is where the action will be ..... Barnes & Noble owns or manages 57% of College Bookstores ..... think eTextbooks
- studentforce
the first iPhone didn't have apps...
- Kevin Marks
OR human beings are incredibly simply and somewhat stupid
- Tina Chase Gillmor
it's hard to say what is dead or not dead, but easier to say what we want: clearly defined circles and noise controls so important signals always get to us when we need them.
- Laura Norvig
I stopped answering my landline ages ago. 100% screened.
- Laura Norvig
You guys in the USA having to pay for incoming calls has to be the most ludicrous thing ever. I couldn't believe. It's kind of understandable for international roamers. but. still. Nuts.
- kosso
that's why the bill wont pass. gov doesnt want to be responsible for phone bills
- Tina Chase Gillmor
What OSS license will WebOS be done with? This question has yet to be answered.
- kosso
WebOS all depends on HP's open source governance, and their record is hardly pristine so far.
- Michael Mahemoff
yes, I'm assuming a sensible license there, not a Javaesque situation
- Kevin Marks
If they're smart, they'll go with a standard (permissive) license, not a weird legalese one-off license which doesn't fit into corporate policies.
- Michael Mahemoff
However, Amazon (and Facebook?) forking Android may have freaked them out against any possibility of a permissive license.
- Michael Mahemoff