That's another thing. The NSA. Wow. Clearly the U.S. knows more about us Canadians than we do :)
- Kevin Costain
I wonder though, who verifies that the person leaking this information is legit? How do you verify something that is super duper secret?
- Kevin Costain
Maybe he's just really good at making presentations look official (and bad)?
- Kevin Costain
I felt that Phil Schiller was talking to Robert
- Michael Roberts
Google/Samsung seems to be WAY AHEAD of Apple on the camera/photo stuff
- Kevin Costain
It seems Apple conferences have changed from a time when devotees worship the future of computing to a time when derision and ridicule is heaped upon Apple for being backward and derivative? Maybe Google+ isn't the right place to make this determination? Maybe my stream has been unconsciously crafted by me so this is what I want to see? But there definitely has been a noticeable change in tone.
- Brian Sullivan
And Facebooked it. So we'll have a mixture of feedback.
- Robert Scoble
Kevin is broadcasting from a party I am not invited to. hmmm
- Tina Chase Gillmor
@Tina, I'm sad to see the birds not invited to Kevin's party :(
- Kevin Costain
What I don't get about Apple is why they don't innovate more on Apple TV regardless of network deals of not. Airplay and the software around it could do so much more than they have taken it.
- Michael Roberts
Activation Lock: I feel that feature could be very problematic if it isn't EASY to work with. And off by default.
- Kevin Costain
@Dan, let's not believe everything Apple tells us. Re fragmentation. Apple have its fragmentation to deal with. iPhone vs iPad app, iOS 7 not available to older phones than iPhone 4. There are still a few 3GS around.
- Petr Faitl
It was fitting that Tim Cook's "one more thing" was a commercial. I thought this was a developer conference but Apple is really starting to take them for granted. He should have started screaming Users, Users, Users!
- scott anderson
The iPhone doesn't crash! It just randomly reboots. :/
- Kevin Costain
I just realized. For those that have good eyesight, that wouldn't want to wear glasses. Wouldn't they balk at having these Google Glasses on all day? isn't there a negative stigma surrounding glasses in the first place?
- Kevin Costain
Hi Francine, so nice seeing you, wish we could end up somewhere for a few hours to have some longer conversations. Turns out my back is OK, probably a little tear in a disc.
- Robert Scoble
gah, need to reboot, skype won't launch
- Kevin Marks
You should see what the Guardian wrote about the American companies who share data with the government, Off the record, my daughter's American company thinks it will have difficulty getting customers here on its cloud products. The Brits don't like the US govt seeing their data
- Francine Hardaway
Yup and Google has denied even knowing about PRISM.
- Robert Scoble
I sent a tweet with a photo of the Guardian front page and it is being retweeted all over the place
- Francine Hardaway
Hi Francine, I'm watching this from a restaurant in London !
- Euro Maestro
Oh boy, wish I were there, I have to really disagree, I think it's a bad idea to give up our freedoms for security, just as Ben Franklin had said
- Euro Maestro
Why are all of the Tech Companies pleading innocence?
- Moe Glitz
You only have to look at the hollywood films from the 40s and 50s criticizing the nazis for asking to see your papers to see if your papers were in order, and now the us is going down that route
- Euro Maestro
Murray: that varies from state to state. Recording someone else's voice in California without their permission or a court order is illegal.
- Robert Scoble
The IRA Movement started Fortress London.
- Moe Glitz
Accumulo + Palantir = pointer to the bad guys (but as Kevin says, who has access?)
- clive boulton
Just ask a Latin American living in Arizona...
- Murray Macdonald
Google's stock wealth is tied to privacy
- Arnie Klaus
if google is so innocent why don't they build encryption into their email by default?
- mal
I think Americans are naive if they think these powers can't be used against us. I am less afraid of terrorism than of a runaway government. I feel that way about the IRS, too
- Francine Hardaway
So what does this mean for Canadians and citizens of other member states of the UN?
- Murray Macdonald
"No one" is listening, but is "Nothing" listening? I wouldn't be suprised to learn that speech recognition is being used on all calls.
- Murray Macdonald
Kevin, it's the same thing that McCarthey said and it turned it was completely false
- Euro Maestro
There are other powers in place that run the country.
- Moe Glitz
The power to build graphs from huge key value stores using machine learning is understated (hope enterprise adopts, not just the social networks and NSA)
- clive boulton
S/MIME is supported by which mail clients/servers?
- Murray Macdonald
so if such service exists for these bad players, what makes one think surveillance of unencrypted mail is going to lead to major breakthroughs
- Euro Maestro
China owns less than 25% of US debt. Most is owned by Private US citizens. Japan has 20%
- Murray Macdonald
The question is how is it used? Will my opinions be used against me when I apply for citizenship in a new country? Will I be excluded for being an Environmentalist?
- Murray Macdonald
Isn't the law in this case being "reviewed" every 90 days?
- Alex de Soto
Not trust: "Our legal team reviews each and every request, and frequently pushes back when requests are overly broad or don’t follow the correct process."
- Bruce Lewis
Keith is exactly right, goes exactly back to what Ben Franklin said, and I tend to agree with Francine !
- Euro Maestro
"How should service providers NOT included on the PRISM list feel today?"
- clive boulton
My Brother-in Law worked at the Woolwich Baracks. Kings Troops. A lot of anger brewing.
- Moe Glitz
We give social networks information willingly because they don't have the force of law behind them. Government agencies have to be much more constrained in their data collection because they can lock up people unjustly based on that information.
- Kevin Bryan
I think Steve needs a Frenchman on to discuss this issue ! :)
- Euro Maestro
Just joining, but has anyone pointed out that "anonymized" big data is a myth? Once data on this scale has been collected, individuals and their behaviors are easily identified. Even commercial data crunchers know this.
- Andrew Hazlett
I find Aljazeera to be less baised than Fox and MSNBC. BBC and CBC are my favs.
- Murray Macdonald
Andrew, I don't think anyone's brought that up.
- Bruce Lewis
Your employer is going to find this causes a business problem, Robert. That's what Sam is saying it will do for her company. She's a direct report to the Chief Privacy Officer of her company
- Francine Hardaway
So the CIA/FBI/NSA operating in Montreal should conform to Quebecs privacy laws?
- Murray Macdonald
I think of the example of Target discovering a woman was pregnant (before she told anyone), based solely on her purchases at Target. (http://www.nytimes.com/2012...) Imagine analyzing ISP data + gov + commercial info
- Andrew Hazlett
Steve is right about how naive we are. I talk with so many people that don't even realize that Google scans your Gmail content to serve you targeted ads.
- Alex de Soto
If you follow the computer vision and machine learning sciences its easy to see what's happening. Sky Net is already alive.
- Murray Macdonald
The average person should really not worry much. Though I want my privacy, the government doesn't care about what I do versus what they really are looking for.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
More the reason to be informed, participate in governance as counterweight to concentration of power. Organize
- Da
from Android
"friendly fire" has been a factor in warfare at least since spears and arrows. I bet drones are no worse , or probably better than alternatives
- Andrew Hazlett
Does anyone know when the 'War on Terror' will finally end?
- Moe Glitz
I think many Americans will change their tune pretty quickly, if Mexico ever used a drone to attack Mexican drug lords in the US, and Americans were killed in the process as collateral damage, Keith or Robert ?
- Euro Maestro
The blowback from these drone strikes is not worth the benefit of getting rid of a few enemies.
- Kevin Bryan
How long until other nations start droning things with US look-alike clone-drones? Everyone will think the US did it.
- Murray Macdonald
I hope I get to meet Keith Teare in person. I do agree with his theories about the nation state. I've been saying for a while that it's an outmoded concept, sort of like a real estate play.
- Francine Hardaway
Steve, Quote from Frank Zappa : "The illusion of freedom [in America] will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."
- Euro Maestro
Apparently, Gerald Seymour said that in Harry's Game.
- Nir Ben Yona
History is written by the winner. The political narrative is driven by the media, corporations and their lobbyists.
- Murray Macdonald
Red light cameras are placed to maximize revenue not safety
- Andrew Hazlett
In China, they made it illegal to cross an intersection on a yellow light
- Euro Maestro
I think it was mentioned before, but how will this affect advertising as tools to talk to your phone improve
- Michael Roberts
Google Search could be a Dinosaur on Mobile :Murray
- Moe Glitz
Multi-Window support exists on Samsung, and is needed on Android and Apple. As devices get HDMI support the OSs require multiple windows.
- Murray Macdonald
On behavior monitoring, 80 pct of new cars have telemetrics by 2017, UKs Lysanda implementing for young drivers [good privacy application] http://www.lysanda.com/index...
- clive boulton
Kevin is completely right about fragmentation in the iOS screen sizes. iOS doesn't have tools to handle it, and it causes developers to either design their own tools or make an app that looks ridiculous on different iOS devices.
- Kevin Bryan
Android doesn't yet support multiple windows, but 3rd parties like Samsung have rolled their own and cooked it into their builds. Google has to respond with a core technology change. Apple?
- Murray Macdonald
Tim said that Apple will open up a little to work with more 3rd party companies.
- Nir Ben Yona
Apple makes life difficult for developers. Too many restrictions for it to be fun. Android is THE embedded platform. Everyone is making Android TVs, not Apple ones...
- Murray Macdonald
I want a Cherry Mobile Skyfire 2.0 phablet :-)
- Da
from Android
I think they will allow swiftkey in eventually. Not that google made their keyboard standalone this week too
- Kevin Marks
The money is in iOS now, but that is changing pretty quickly. You also have to take the availability of the Play Store into account as well. It's in only a small fraction of the countries the iTunes/App store is in.
- Kevin Bryan
google's isn't personalised like swiftkey's
- Kevin Marks
@Robert.... Yea I was seconds away from getting a nexus 7.. but i heard rumors of a new one... and no amazon instant video :/ plus all the google products are on iOS anyway... so..
- Matthew Voshell
@Robert... Does the Jedi touchless pad really impress you? Or was the revel show that convincing... i thought it was quite awful... seems like they are trying to imitate steve jobs...often imitated never duplicated
- Matthew Voshell
Matthew: I'll probably send it back to HTC.
- Robert Scoble
Device Comments so far... Android 6, iOS 2. Tells us something, don't you think?
- Alex de Soto
"We look forward to gathering at WWDC 2013 with the incredible community of iOS and OS X developers," said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. "Our developers have had the most prolific and profitable year ever, and we’re excited to show them the latest advances in software technologies and developer tools to help them create innovative new apps. We can’t wait to get new versions of iOS and OS X into their hands at WWDC."
- Matthew Voshell
do they kill flickr? they kind of overlap no?
- Matthew Voshell
Speaking of rumors, what about the rumor that Google wants to buy Waze and beat Facebook to it?
- Alex de Soto
Yahoo acquisition of Astrid shows what they want to do to dominate the android experience the way Facebook Home does
- Christian Burns
Astrid todo app did some really innovative things inside android
- Christian Burns
google has more plortforms to sync across chat wise; apple only has thier ios devices; why doesnt AIM use the ton's of properties they own and overtake the whole market and make AIM reputable again?
- Matthew Voshell
I'm seeing a lot of social fatigue too, though. Next-gen stuff needs to be high value, more personal, less intrusive and less info overload.
- Laura Norvig
I am sorely dissapointed by FB A/V chat; i dont think hes anywhere close to hangouts; but if video quality is key, facetime still takes the cake 1-1;
- Matthew Voshell
It is unclear that there won't be an XMPP gateway to the new architecture. The most ridiculous thing with the current hangouts are that my Google Voice number calls into an active hangout that I'm in....
- Jerry Schuman
Larry Page was so sad talking interop at I/O....
- clive boulton
Yea, someone called my google voice and in hangouts it jsut shows a phone icon; sounds great; but no outbound calls yet :/
- Matthew Voshell
lot of heavy drinking going on today... I forgot my ice tea additive. let the holiday weekend begin
- Tina Chase Gillmor
There are currently ZERO call controls from Voice to Hangouts
- Jerry Schuman
Tina, you might have to schedule a potty break for them
- Christian Burns
@Jerry.. yea.. that makes me sad.. i liked having ghcat and voice in one place with the old gmail ghcat
- Matthew Voshell
Christian, they have their Gillmor Gang diapers on :-)
- Tina Chase Gillmor
The other thing that is suspect about this current move away from XMPP is it obliterates Federation and specifically kills off some pretty great products like Obihai.
- Jerry Schuman
well, you have voice now, just not telephony
- Kevin Marks
@Kevin... you are correct... but then the person on the other end either has to be in google+, gmail, or have the new hangouts app on their phone ...which is tough right now
- Matthew Voshell
If they skip telephony can they skip Government Regulatuion and wiretapping requirements?
- Christian Burns
yes, that is a problem for now. Same problem Apple has
- Kevin Marks
I give out my google voice number to people i dont want to have my personal number or i use it for my side biz..
- Matthew Voshell
Ward Cunningham been experimenting syncing messages to small federated databases over ham radio. Vendors better work out standards or the community will do it.
- clive boulton
iMessage is annoying. The last thing I want is another silo of messages I have to check. I don't tell anyone that I have an iPad, even though I have three.
- Murray Macdonald
It also sound slike Beta vs VHS, Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD; one of them will eventually win right?
- Matthew Voshell
The WebSockets standard enables p2p communication. Why not just use the standards? Identity is the only issue. Open standards are the only answer.
- Murray Macdonald
Im seeing many android users switch to iOS and love it
- Christian Burns
I agree the average user is definitely ore advanced
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Apple is too restrictive. Android is more open. Geeks like to develop for open platforms and users like the apps that the geeks develop. "Normal" people want apps developed by geeks.
- Murray Macdonald
Robert Scoble, same in Paris and in every European city, it's always Facebook and Twitter !
- Euro Maestro
That's because FB and Twitter don't make a mobile OS - all Android and GMail users are Google+ users
- Ankush Narula
It is always tough to break a new OS into the mainstream. This is why Palm failed to cross-over WebOS with the past users, the same with Windows Mobile going to Windows Phone. Look at Linux Distros too. Market share and apps dominate new comers, always. Low cost options always cross their fingers to move up in the market food chain.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Euro: exactly. Same in every city I've been in. Except Shanghai, because China has their own.
- Robert Scoble
Thought you were going to say he was the third wheel...
- Jerry Schuman
Keith has perspective that you need to listen too. In our country we can afford subsidized phones
- Christian Burns
The same can be said about social networks now from my comment above
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
#gillmorgang Firefox, Ubuntu, FB, others...only can compete with Android and iOS if they aiming for delivering service....instead of only giving free phones...(good smartphones are also just devices)
- Hessel van Tuinen
Boot to web devices are much more likely to be virus/trojan free. They will require less maintenance.
- Murray Macdonald
Google Play Music is wanting to track all my listening
- Christian Burns
Google has and always will be the ever ubiquitous AI. Not long until you see $10,000.00 Gartner reports generated for 10 bucks from the AI
- Jerry Schuman
Robert is right, Google is transitioning from the advertising model to a transactions model, he' calling it commerce but I would call it transactional.
- Euro Maestro
Amazon is the dark horse - the question is what they will do for geo and social - but in the meantime they will be the only vertically integrated self-branded alternative to Apple
- Ankush Narula
Steve will be the last Apple Fanboy, fighting to the death.
- Murray Macdonald
I'm wondering what would happen if Scoble piped his Logitech Camera into his Google Glass and shot them at each other. Self-destruct?
- Charlie Isaacs
Robert, that's true but it's still as you said Facebook and Twitter everywhere. Why aren't they locking people into Google Plus.
- Euro Maestro
Low Signal to Noise ratios are the ultimate gauge to success.
- Jerry Schuman
Robert: Don't forget the awesome Google Maps improvements. Users can add photos (e.g. photo sphere) to make them better. And they really let you do that. They added a picture 30 min. after I sent it to them.
- David C. Menzel
flickr for us is linked to my wife's yahoo account.
- Christian Burns
yawn, Winer and outliners... what decade did I wake up in?
- Jerry Schuman
no Tina, as far as I know they haven't -- Snapchat raised $475,000 in its seed round and an undisclosed amount of bridge funding from Lightspeed Ventures -- last entry on wikipedia
- Charlie Isaacs
Google wants to save our butt when our phone dies
- Christian Burns
Charlie. Interesting. Yahoo should have bought them... could but them front and center with the kids
- Tina Chase Gillmor
I would not expect Google to be the only provider of Glass hardware.
- scott anderson
Photo retailers have auto enhanced images for a long time. Google isn't the first to do it. You will find automatic image enhancement on most retail sites. The difference is Google pushes the enhanced image at you while the retailer are hesitant to put the enhanced image forward without the customer requesting it.
- Murray Macdonald
it's possible google will make a quantum leap in that ease of use with the contextual, assistive stuff. Like a personal assistant anticipating your needs.
- Laura Norvig
Apple reminds me of Mercedes. Loyal customers, but they don't make the best car.
- Murray Macdonald
@Scott - Prepaid cellar services with Android are doing the opposite very well actually.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
What amazes me, nobody has brought these technologies together for SMBs -- not Salesforce, Amazon, Google -- incumbent Microsoft is flapping around.
- clive boulton
clive -- check out Summer'13 from salesforce :)
- Charlie Isaacs
clive: yeah, that's a good point. I bet Salesforce gets there first, because of its visibility into what businesses want, and also because Benioff is visionary enough to push his company that way (and already has).
- Robert Scoble
Like I said on twitter, the jobs act would not have replaced that bridge. We drive over that bridge everyday. So glad we were not on it.
- Christian Burns
I was there yesterday - well computer History Museum
- Kevin Marks
Keith... I have no idea why but your video feed is being chopped off at my end... not your fault but Ive never seen this happenh before
- Tina Chase Gillmor
My programmer buddies are over 50% Andoird. It's easier to develop for.
- Murray Macdonald
I remember when the OS switch happend in early 2000 for OSX. The years prior EmergingTech show was 90% PC... next year it flipped on it's head.
- Jerry Schuman
And... Yahoo just bought the 4th startup for this week. Astrid, GoPollGo, Milewise, and now Loki Studios.
- Nir Ben Yona
OSI vs. TCP/IP don't bring back bad memories ;-)
- Jerry Schuman
Apple is sleepy while the HTML5 and JS communities are moving at lightspeed. New platforms are popping up everywhere. The launch of the harp.io platform is exciting.
- Murray Macdonald
no new Beatles? Steve is obviously not a Belieber
- Charlie Isaacs
seriously though, Google fails forward extremely well. Even if self-driving car and Glass fail, they (and we) are learning so much from these. And from all of the other projects they shuttered.
- Charlie Isaacs
NeXT brought Steve Jobs back. Apple needed a new OS.
- Murray Macdonald
Jerry is right on, open source aftermarket self driving delivery trike.
- Christian Burns
though the Apple Media Lab people who made Knowledge Navigator were hired in the Jobs era
- Kevin Marks
I had one of those Kyocera Palm flip phones.. amazing phone..
- Kevin Costain
Believe in open standards... Why limit it to two companies?
- Murray Macdonald
Cause he was listening to people Like Steve Gillmor and John Taschek
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Jobs, like Benioff, had/have a rare combination of creative/technical/vision/marketing skills and they knew/know to hire people to make their dreams come true
- Charlie Isaacs
Tim Cook is not a Dreamer or a Futurist!
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
Products that change us and how we do things becoume part of our lives and we just cant live without them
- Christian Burns
Facebook delivered a revolution in a browser, using open standards, not a corporate platform. Only cross-platform developments can access everyone given the fragmentation.
- Murray Macdonald
what Steve's saying about the iPhone-- I believe that was confirmed in Isaacson's book about Jobs
- Charlie Isaacs
I'll agree with the phone argument from Jerry.
- John Taschek
But notebooks -- going all the way back to the first "ultraportables" (Zenith) are even in more need to be disrupted. They're not mobile the way people think of mobile now.
- John Taschek
I think about Samsung and all the assets they have (appliances, heavy industry, cash). Google - future. Apple - ecosystem, love, belief. Microsoft -- history....
- John Taschek
What happened to Scoble's "Apple"is where all the Apps are developed!?
- Kevin Costain
Office is alive and well. MS made 6B last quarter.
- Murray Macdonald
The always on nature of mobile phones provides the data usage that miners and telcos live on. The "phone" becomes another network node of messaging, socializing,and consuming.
- Aron Michalski
Agree on the Intents Murray -- what a concept, multi-tasking
- Charlie Isaacs
What OS will your emedded systems run? Embedded in your body?
- Christian Burns
Apple will introduce an intents equivalent at WWDC I'll be money on that
- Kevin Marks
The web is the delivery channel for REST. REST is the magic all these platform apps and JS cross platform apps. JS is the language showing the growth.
- Murray Macdonald
the web was always centered on information but market adoption focused on the marketing "brochure" side of things. It's just going back to its origin
- Jerry Schuman
Remember when Scoble and Marks were not on Gillmor gang?
- Christian Burns
Can someone explain to me the meaning behind the Gilmoor Gang comment concerning Adam and Eve. What do Adam and Eve have in common with Steve Jobs? Is the future of computing really going to be all tablets and laptop? No more netbooks or even desktops? In 20 years, is everyone going to be wearing a computer on their physical body?
- Lamar Morgan
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — well, we talked Google Glass. @scobleizer has certainly made the case for the life-altering shower-taking scenarios, but what the Gang got into was what happens next. Do we wait for the actual launch early next year, or is the die already cast with this alpha rollout? One thing for sure: there's plenty to unravel in this second Glass hour in a row.
- Steve Gillmor
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
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
Cool! can i get a daily or weekly email digest for the "Saved searches"?
- 0M0M
from email
This will be incredibly useful. Thanks to all involved in the design and execution.
- Kathy Fitch
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 ..
- Franc, a rememberer
@kevin Facebook seems to be trying to figure out how to take all that traffic and turn it into money... unlike ost companies who know how to make money and are trying to get traffic..... what does that say?
- Matthew Voshell
@clive I tried graph search... it "works" but I never use it...
- Matthew Voshell
"Walked outside with Google Glass for the first time. Stepped in dog poop almost immediately. Pretty sure this is what the future is like." Aaron Gotwalt
- Kevin Marks
so looking forward to Glass, my neck hurts having to constantly look down at my phone
- Da
Because kids dont have enough access to video games..
- Christian Burns
@Matthew Google search became terribly boring, link results too predictable or gamed. Graph Search much more interesting. FB engineering paper explains why.
- clive boulton
@Da They might need to figure out how to cool the CPU when Glass is attached to an external battery.
- Alex de Soto
You can't write local apps... My understanding is all 3rd party apps are in the cloud. Is that not true? Can you install a local app?
- Murray Macdonald
you need to hack it to write local apps yes
- Kevin Marks
It occurs to me that the feedback from wearing this device is where the real product is going to come from.
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Vuzix allows real local apps on the device...
- Murray Macdonald
Glass camera should recognize a limited set of gestures but ignore others, like fly swats for example.
- Alex de Soto
The fact it works at all is awesome. Main discussion is, is it ready?
- Keith Teare
And is it the right way to incorporate computing into the person
- Keith Teare
what I mean is that the things people discover in using the early product will create main features and dictate what this product looks and feels like eventually. Might be a "duh" statement but real important here
- Tina Chase Gillmor
so as good as google voice recognition on android
- Christian Burns
Glass is just like every other Google "product". Nothing more then another input to their global information AI. It will go the way of Reader as soon as it's signal to noise ratio is bad.
- Jerry Schuman
virtual keyboard floating in front of you? plenty of times when i don't want to talk out loud
- Da
I almost never want to talk out loud to a gadget
- Kevin Marks
WiFi direct is capable of much more than screens; any p2p communications between apps. If the eyepiece, camera, phone and such are going to collaborate together, you need much more than screen sharing. You need an open p2p API
- Murray Macdonald
i want multiple windows on my Glass. no external, multiple physical screens wanted
- Da
Google not tuning for personal nuances opens up for competition
- clive boulton
Bluetooth is too slow, unless it uses wifi. Wifi direct is all that and more... AirPlay is the new FaceTime. A proprietary flavor of a generic ability.
- Murray Macdonald
I'd rather have a device I can write local computer vision application on... Everything in the cloud is going to make everything latent. The problem is battery life...
- Murray Macdonald
"They" should get out of the way. Writing filters should be open to the 3rd party market. Notifications and "page rank" are proprietary solutions the 3rd party market can't innovate on. Let others write filters....
- Murray Macdonald
What's this Close Friends trick? Is there a blog post about it?
- Evan Prodromou
@Nir yea, Sir Jonny is hard at work, rumors point at a simplier design (ala google) and more continuty across softeware and hardware.... idk, i'm excited i think he's a visionary
- Matthew Voshell
Sorry, failed experiment. It meant more with spaces. Wonder if you can do an in here.
- Amyloo
Still waiting for the call. TMobile's pricing strategy is sort of interesting, but TMobile doesn't even work in my house, so it isn't useful to me.
- Robert Scoble
Glass needs cooling for Robert's streams.
- clive boulton
@Robert I finally got through the reservation line and have been using Tempo this week... I don't think any calendaring app will fulfill all my needs... buts its close... untill google NOW gets released for iOS... But the linkage b/t my mail, linkedin and FB is very helpful...
- Matthew Voshell
Heheh. I'm already working at thinking how I'm gonna extend Glass' battery.
- Robert Scoble
Hil, you'll be proud of me. I bought a tray of frozen monkey bread but I'm only baking two of the 12 rolls. (Hil is my calorie counting buddy on MyFitness Pal).
- Amyloo
someone (who shall remain nameless) decided to switch equipment right before the show ;-( always a problem
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Speaking of which, i'm looking forward to Danny Sullivan's comparison trial of all of the wearable fitness gadgets.
- Amyloo
Very proud of you! but what is monkey bread?
- Hilary Talbot
To add to the discussion list, here's a new kickstarter project that cleared $30k in 8 hours and has extended thier goal to $100k, Looks like a brilliant project and i can't wait to get them.. http://www.kickstarter.com/project...
- Matthew Voshell
Gooey sweet rolls. Great warm, but I woudl eat the whole lot if available.
- Amyloo
Earbuds w/ Magnetic Docking. Made in USA. - nice Kickstarter
- clive boulton
Amyloo: The Basis is best, but it looks dorky. I bought two.
- Robert Scoble
re extending battery life for glass. There will have to be head mophi packs modelled into hats...
- Hilary Talbot
Hmm.. I made hot cross buns yesterday... so good
- Hilary Talbot
Robert, I don't know about you but I'm more influenced than perhaps I should be by the appearance of apps. Dorky will turn me off to things.
- Amyloo
Tina: when troubleshooting these type of problems, always ask to take the plug off.
- Nir Ben Yona
Hilary: I'm thinking of a utililty belt with a cord that runs up my back.
- Robert Scoble
Amyloo: the Basis is a watch. Looks like my dad's Casio calculator watch.
- Robert Scoble
another few minutes guys. thank you for your patience
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Does Sullivan participate in the chat? i dont think so.. I wonder if he can get early access to this wearable tech, i bring it up every week with no love; Did i mention JOHN SCULLY is involved! http://www.indiegogo.com/project...
- Matthew Voshell
Thanks. Personally I'd just kick that guy off the show Tina. Oh, wait, is it Steve? Heheheh.
- Robert Scoble
remember this is a recording session ;-) sh*t happens
- Tina Chase Gillmor
@Robert... YES... i backed in way back in November... but they had to do a complete redesign and release got pushed back to June... But i think it's got the chance to destroy all the other wearble tech out now..
- Matthew Voshell
Amyloo: ScottEVests have cord channels built in. I have several of their vests and they are quite nice.
- Robert Scoble
Matthew: yup. Have you gotten yours yet?
- Robert Scoble
No, like i said.. they pushed the ship date back from March 1 to i think June... They decided the lights on the outside were too small and redesigned them to be bigger...I think they are made in vietnam
- Matthew Voshell
I cannot use Microsoft ones any more, too much Windows shoved in my way (same as Gmail compose)
- clive boulton
I'm watching today on a laptop running Ubuntu using Google Chrome. Microsoft software not involved.
- Kevin Costain
Makes sense as a metric, like pages per site. It does measure interest.
- Amyloo
Flipboard does do this thing where if i flip through enough... it'll say "loading" and neer load older content... idk.. does anyone else have this issue?
- Matthew Voshell
Zmags also reports time in a publication, useful in tandem with flips.
- Amyloo
Future buzzword: Personal Clouds, or prouds
- Kevin Costain
personal clouds, knowing it wont go out of business
- Christian Burns
@kevin... is there anything to the stories that Marissa os often hours late to meetings and makes people work around her? I know Tim Armstrong disagrees about the "work from home" issue too
- Matthew Voshell
Machine learning focus seem to be the new hot with VCs
- clive boulton
Marissa used to have 'office hours' at google which was blocks of unscheduled time that you could drop in on her. This turned into PM's camped outside her office to try and get a few minutes with her for a decision.
- Kevin Marks
RSS, freedom of association, this show is freedom to connect, to boadcast
- Christian Burns
I suppose a free/cheap alternative to apps like http://www.omnigroup.com/product... would be really helpful - I'm assuming a Little Outliner outline can be exported in various formats.
- Andrew Hazlett
Or if you like to go the flowchart way to figure out your flows/outlines Lucidchart is also SaaS with Google Drive reference.. https://www.lucidchart.com/
- Matthew Voshell
I used to use omnigroup apps but have switched to Lucidchart since its SaaS and much cheaper.. it does wireframing too
- Matthew Voshell
little outliner works less well on mobile, as there are no tab and arrow keys...
- Kevin Marks
Could this just be a second mode of text entry in notepad? Like switching to showing line numbers.
- Kevin Costain
Responsive Design is a MUST_HAVE anymore right?
- Matthew Voshell
Kevin has dreamy-like birds tweeting away in his yard
- Tina Chase Gillmor
An open standard, cross platform outliner, stores localy, is the dream
- Christian Burns
@cliveb Yea, Mind Meister allows you to invite people and simultanious edit (like drive) and once you're done... you can export it to Drive as PDF or whatever
- Matthew Voshell
I can't get links to work in littleoutiner
- Kevin Marks
Steves global vision is too abstract to be contained in an outline. Beatles songs dont fit into an outline either
- Christian Burns
If the internet fails big time one of these days, we'll all thank little outliner and tools like it. Outlining is also a good alternative to clunky CMS editors for setting up content to be used in adaptive or responsive design.
- Alex de Soto
I still have customers running Windows NT 4.0 :)
- Kevin Costain
@Nir.. i completly understand its importance.. i was looking for agreence haha; I just switched my website from smugmug to squarespace becuase they had much better responsive design and social network tie in http://www.wooliffotog.com
- Matthew Voshell
I like that google maps will turn your map to night mode,
- Christian Burns
Did anyone else notice that if an app redirects you to google maps in the mobile safari there is a button at the top to allow you to auto-open the local google maps app... pretty smart
- Matthew Voshell
Christian if you are talking about DC, I agree, especially around the Pentagon and DCA -- #ConspiracyTheory?
- Charlie Isaacs
I find Google maps transit is best from Mahattan to the other boro's
- clive boulton
My waze doesn't work at all in any tunnel, I don't know what Scoble is talking about :)
- Charlie Isaacs
I'm in DC too... and i think thats not accurate for a specific reason
- Matthew Voshell
I always lose my waze or any navigation system going through the big dig and any other Boston tunnel, then I get lost for about 30 minutes trying to regain reception :-o
- Charlie Isaacs
Angels bootstrapping is killing VC's in the way the music labels lost control of the distribution channel once artists starting selling direct (ergo louis CK)
- Matthew Voshell
Noticed VC's putting growth hackers on the ground (Ivory towers going)
- clive boulton
oh god, VHS tapes too. We need to work out which ones have actual family videos on
- Kevin Marks
did anyone see the kickstarter project that allows you to avoid ads in a "free" app by collecting the money up front? have you guys already talked about this? maybe the future of advertising...
- Charlie Isaacs
Just got to a desktop and looked at Facebook. I have over 13,000 followers. Clearly I am on a Scoble list.
- Francine Hardaway
I think I might have a 40 megabyte hard drive around... fourty. megabytes.
- Kevin Costain
If soething is popular you can always get it onto a plane
- Christian Burns
@Moe, i disagree, for collaboration its amazing....There are large organizations wasting money on Microsoft word versioning that waste thousands of hours but i do use salesforce products (do.com)
- Matthew Voshell
I have Android angst. Will I blow up on today's call?
- Robert Scoble
@Robert is switching to android like dating a stripper? She looks great but once you find out she sleeps all day and can't stop flirting with guys you realize hose bad of a decision it was? NOT a personal story at all :/
- Matthew Voshell
Heheh. Matthew, it's not quite THAT bad. But the notifications suck. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Android angst? Can't wait to hear what that's all about. And isn't it amazing that while Google Reader will be gone soon Friendfeed is still around?
- Alex de Soto
Yeah. That'll be more interesting with Google Glass, but then I'm still partial to Evernote. I don't trust Google as much as I used to.
- Robert Scoble
We could also talk about algorithmic user interfaces (like what Facebook is moving to). That bugged me a lot at first but now I'm very intrigued.
- Robert Scoble
I completely agree Evernote is amazing... when did google try to play catch up and not just be the innovators they are? are they getting TOO big?
- Matthew Voshell
Hmmm, Gillmors can't be reached. Steve is in New York. Tina must be having troubles.
- Robert Scoble
how can you dislike android notifications? dislike some apps for doing them badly, sure (twitter)
- Kevin Marks
I just got back through and Tina is having trouble with one of the machines. Please stand by.
- Robert Scoble
Kevin: all apps suck on 4.2.1 all notifications are single lines and totally useless. Forces a click through which iOS doesn't.
- Robert Scoble
@robert are there not third-party mods to change the notifications?
- Matthew Voshell
Matthew: I don't know. On iOS I don't need to do third-party crap.
- Robert Scoble
@Robert yea true.. so you're saying apple got something right?!?!
- Matthew Voshell
Yup. But Apple sucks because of the keyboard. Android, er, SwiftKey, is far superior for me.
- Robert Scoble
Danny Sullivan: please stand by. Tina is experiencing technical difficulties.
- Robert Scoble
@Robert What about google voice dictation? I use the google search app on my iPhone 100% of the time.. and i know it's builtin to the keyboard as well?
- Matthew Voshell
Matthew: voice is a wash. Google is better at some things, Apple better at others.
- Robert Scoble
have you done the pull to expand thign on notifications
- Kevin Marks
2-finger pull down on any one give you the same UX as the top one
- Kevin Marks
Kevin: yes. That just expands groups, like Gmail, into multiple messages. All single lines.
- Robert Scoble
@panel... I've been saying this forever... why dont you guys do this on a broadcasted google+ hangout?
- Matthew Voshell
Matthew: we should. If I ran this I would do that.
- Robert Scoble
I need to give Scoble my tweet notification app.
- Kevin Marks
Robert, you should ask Danny about his multi-device activity tracking. We're both doing this right now. I'm testing 4 activity trackers simultaneously right now Nike Fuelband, Jawbone Up, Fitbit One and Bodymedia Armband http://lifestreamblog.com/bodymed...
- Mark Krynsky
I'm using the Logitech keyboard for the mini. They ship quickly from Logitech. It's great but can't use a protective case for the back with it.
- Alex de Soto
But how does instagram pay off for young kids when they go to get a job in 10 years?!?! haha
- Matthew Voshell
Yea i think for events, organizations, these social networks are amazing... but for personal life? just building a case to not get a job or be trusted :/
- Matthew Voshell
Robert: Will kids run away from the contextual or embrace it?
- Alex de Soto
Alex: for a couple of years. Why? Price.
- Robert Scoble
But after the glasses get cool enough and cheap enough, we'll see kids use them too. Particularly for sports or concert videos.
- Robert Scoble
@Robert so it goes the way flat screen TV's have? Please tell me we dont become the people from Wall-E :(
- Matthew Voshell
My students (journalism) use Twitter, hate Facebook but still use it. Are amazingly tech illiterate and uncurious. Remember, outside SV, there's a whole other world
- Francine Hardaway
Facebook made the social graph too much the past you were
- clive boulton
Glad to see we aren't talking about SendGrid today.
- Darren
When Google Glass tells us what to do, and Google Cars drive us contextually to where they know we should be, will thinking be obsolete?
- Steven E. Streight
Kevin is at The Creamery in Sf. Oneof the loudest places in SF
- Tina Chase Gillmor
If its cool... does that mean is useful? i dont think they are mutually exclusive.
- Matthew Voshell
Twitter is for very short messages, not real conversations. What does that say about us?
- Steven E. Streight
The kids of the people on this call are NOT normal
- Francine Hardaway
I plan on limiting my kids tech usage growing up; kids nowadays get punish by having to go outside and turn off their xbox's; when i grew up and we were in trouble we WEREN'T aloud outside... :/ This pushes towards childhood obesity... is tech to partly blame?
- Matthew Voshell
Twitter conditions us for short bursts of talk, rather than what we had in blogs, longer communications in depth.
- Steven E. Streight
Matthew: yes. Technology plays a big part in obesity.
- Robert Scoble
Francine - not normal - true. but their friends are and it's the same
- Tina Chase Gillmor
I would agree that I've gained weight due to more time on the PC and eating late at night.
- Steven E. Streight
Maybe part of a bigger conversation regarding trust in cloud services is the bigger issue.
- Mark Krynsky
Hi everyone, just checking in because I miss you all. Am I late? I have been traveling a lot lately :)
- Charlie Isaacs
I have been experimenting with new curation and discovery tools like RebelMouse and Swayy to find stuff to read. I wonder if this type of discovery is going to replace systematic RSS reading of blogs.
- Laura Norvig
Will smart phones and tablets totally replace tower PCs? I doubt it.
- Steven E. Streight
twitter stopped supporting rss and atom because they, at the time, lacked capabilities to handle it
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Syndication is a necessity...regardless of what the technology ever iterates to. I still use RSS and will welcome whatever new technology comes to evolve it.
- Mark Krynsky
Google Reader with RSS was incredible ROI for Google. Not a lot of money for a lot of geek love.
- Kevin Bryan
RSS serves a very relevant B2B purpose (syndication) and there are no relevant alternatives. Until there is it isn't going anywhere. Proprietary APIs are not that.
- Darren
When does "content curation" turn into plagiarism and duplicate content?
- Steven E. Streight
Does google just have the balls to say No? Jobs was renowned for the ability say no.
- Matthew Voshell
Google Plus is not solving any of my information overload problems at all.
- Laura Norvig
Explore on GooglePlus has been demoted in the More tab.
- Steven E. Streight
I know a Government agency that leveraged Google Reader to dynamically parse feeds/information specifically related that Govt. agency. A young innovator built the app to save taxpayers money...oh well.
- Charlie Isaacs
I gain a lot more followers on G+ than on FB, but get more interactions on FB.
- Steven E. Streight
Robert's right. Discovery on G+ is very difficult
- Francine Hardaway
I have been getting incredible value out of a "secret group" nptech community of practice on Facebook lately. The trust in the group (of about 400) ripples out into public facing parts of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.
- Laura Norvig
It is hard to survive in business without being on LinkedIn
- Charlie Isaacs
Mike: really? Nearly every tech person I've ever messaged is on Facebook. They might not post often, but almost all are there. Except for the weirdos like Dave Winer and Ryan Block. And they are on Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
To private message in G+ I have to go to my Gmail page, get on GTalk and hope the user is active at that moment?
- Steven E. Streight
Sounds interesting Laura. I'd be interested in that nptech group.
- Mark Krynsky
I found my job at Aol through linkedin, it showed me one of my friends that works there and had them submit my resume... boom! Very powerful
- Matthew Voshell
@Steven... yea you are making this more difficult than it needs to be; if you want instant messagin, sure gchat (prop across gmail and google+) or you can post a message only to them;
- Matthew Voshell
long-press the notification to get to the app setting menu to diabel that apps ones
- Kevin Marks
Tina, your job is secure ... I think
- Laura Norvig
I wonder if the average non-geeky user of G+ understands how to private message someone on G+ though....
- Steven E. Streight
I'm not "making it too difficult", I'm advocating better usability and intuitive functionality for average users of G+.
- Steven E. Streight
it's located directly below your "posting" section where it says "who do you want to share this with?" and you select either all people, a couple circles, or a couple people. It allows targeted "messaging" in a powerful way... just no one is on there to send it to ha :/
- Matthew Voshell
Yea, i NEVER post on linkedin really... I just see who' changing jobs and connected to people i'd like to keep tabs on for future job searches
- Matthew Voshell
Tech people seem to be very active on LInkedIn status updates. You have to click on Home to see the updates. Notifications are not implemented on your LI profile...?
- Steven E. Streight
Instead of autoposting, I do copy and paste, then make sure no truncation issues exist.
- Steven E. Streight
A smart phone would only fetch notification when the phone is slightly moving. If it's been sitting still on the counter for 30 minutes, why update notifications.
- Murray Macdonald
FBs convolutions likely due to MySQL under pinning, they really need a big graph database
- clive boulton
Android apps CANNOT modify or read the notifications as this would be a major security hole.
- Murray Macdonald
Im not using Foursquare that much. People dont need to know how many freaking times I'm at Home Depot
- Tina Chase Gillmor
@Murray: I often set my phone on my desk for hours at a time, but still want notifications.
- John Mann
Speaking of Roku, i got the Roku 3... The headhone port on the remote is AMAZING... my wife is much happier with me :) But it has crashed twice in 3 days :/
- Matthew Voshell
Kevin: That's what the notification interface supports, but you can't create any alternative to it, nor can an app read notifications as this would be a huge security hole.
- Murray Macdonald
I got a Roku 3 too just for the Time Warner app which now enables me to return the HD Cable box I've been renting from them.
- Mark Krynsky
Tina, Home Depot should give you a kickback now.
- Laura Norvig
If GoogleGlass can alert you to a mugger approaching, by criminal record context, and what kind of weapon he has -- that would be useful.
- Steven E. Streight
Occulus Rift is what I want to try :)
- Mark Krynsky
That means it won't work in the sun, unless it is shaded like ski goggles.
- Murray Macdonald
it seems like seeing through it would be distracting to the way the brain processes stuff. Harder to read.
- Laura Norvig
someone tell Robert that he needs to drive 3 hours East to use thos
- Charlie Isaacs
Will Google Glass recognize facially someone you look at and link to their profile pages?
- Steven E. Streight
It's called google glass. see Steve... you want one.
- Murray Macdonald
@Laura not unless you want the heaphone jack to stream without bothering people; otherwise the new OS, which the new global serach is brilliant, will get pushed down to the older roku's soon enough;
- Matthew Voshell
there were so many product placements on this show. Sponsors, baby!
- Laura Norvig
Each one logs a different number of steps and different functions Mark, and none of them gives you actionable intelligence other than "do more." This is data, not information
- Francine Hardaway
Robert: Carry an extra battery that fits IN your phone.
- Murray Macdonald
I carry a Mophie and my Ford Sync charges my phone en route
- Francine Hardaway
I've been through 3 Mophie packs, the USB connector is very fragile
- Charlie Isaacs
Francine, there is definitely compelling stories about people getting competitive about their steps, though. Louis Gray is a fanatic. I think he cheats, though.
- Laura Norvig
Francine: I ran four marathons in high school so get that too.
- Robert Scoble
Francine, I can draw some interesting correlations and value from the reporting I get but I agree it can get better and I'm seeing some aggregation services that are starting to draw more actionable information as well.
- Mark Krynsky
Murray: yeah, solar doesn't work most days in half moon bay.
- Robert Scoble
Solar works great. I have a 6sqft solar power charging a 12v car battery. If I run it all the way down it takes two sunny days or four not-so-sunny days to recharge it.
- Murray Macdonald
Have a good weekend. Lots of fun. Chat room was rocking, too!
- Robert Scoble
Or we could talk about my drunken escapades at SXSW.
- Robert Scoble
Samsung? Did they do something this week? lol, that Radio City show was really cheesy!
- Tom Guarriello
Or we could talk about the death of Google Reader.
- Robert Scoble
Or we could talk about Facebook's new News Feed.
- Robert Scoble
No Google Reader jokes! I'm still in mourning...
- Tom Guarriello
Or we could just sit around and stare at each other. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Tom: I stopped using it in 2009. You gotta come into the future eventually. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Actually, as long as Reeder survives, I'll be fine.
- Tom Guarriello
I tell ya the new Facebook news feed blows away most things for me now. Can't wait for everyone to get it.
- Robert Scoble
You're funny, Robert. I can't do the research I to do with all that noise on Twitter, etc. I've got plenty of filters with lists, etc., but nothing beats reading those feeds in one place. At least not for me.
- Tom Guarriello
Tom: the Flipboard Cover Stories does that for me. That is getting better and better.
- Robert Scoble
But Facebook's new news feed is definitely eating into my reading time. By the way, you try Prismatic? That's rocking too.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: So with such a terrible Samsung launch are you still going to switch? Does anyone care that the launch sucked when it comes to buying the phone?
- Michael Roberts
Finished setting up my just.me profile, Keith.
- Tom Guarriello
So, the breathing is too loud, but the potato chip crunching is hunky-dory?!
- Evan Prodromou
Or you talk about how all these fake viral videos (like the recent pepsi ad) are getting tiresome. How long before people get tired of it and the hit count drops.
- Michael Roberts
Google glass is a great toy right now, but I suspect it will take a gen. 2 before I'd drop a real phone.
- Michael Roberts
Robert: I don't get it, do you have a special eyeglass lenses prescription for the Google Glass?
- Nir Ben Yona
Samsung did that last year with with their WiFi direct photo sharing...
- Murray Macdonald
When you consider that the Nexus 4 requires no contract, the competition gets even stronger.
- Murray Macdonald
I suspect apple will catch up on all the specs, but the problem for apple (at least in Canada) is android phones are cheaper in terms of plans than apple, and as Robert says google glass connecting better with android phones matters.
- Michael Roberts
I think the technology is advancing so fast, features are not as important as carriers, ecosystem, and connectivity to other devices. For now I'll stick with apple, but in a year maybe if google glass matures, and one cannot easily connect to google glass with an iphone, maybe getting android might matter.
- Michael Roberts
the better screen changes all the time, today samsung, tomorrow apple, next week, someone else. It will ebb and flow all the time. I agree with Gillmor.
- Michael Roberts
Apple could make an iPod Touch Maxi. 6 inch screen
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
I'd never swtich to Android because of Samsung, I'd switch because android's ecosystem becomes so strong with their google apps and glass integration. google apps and glass would be the only reason I'd switch away from an iphone, never for the phone itself which to date has never been as slick as anything apple has created.
- Michael Roberts
Having joined late, I apologise if you've discussed this topic, but what's your take on Samsung trying to move away from Google Android? Yesterday, it felt like Samsung is building dependence on Samsung branded software, so when they are ready with Tizen (or other alternative), they can switch without damage.
- Petr Faitl
Motorola will release one that size soon too
- Kevin Marks
Kevin: And so does the Sony Xperia T.
- Nir Ben Yona
not even google thinks motorola is building competitive phones
- Ludwig Ederle
Murray: I agree, but I think like many who have invested in Apple, it would take something like a google glass to be the tipping point. Clearly that's the case for Robert.
- Michael Roberts
Still waiting for the 7" Samsung Note
- Frank Paynter
Is there a Google product that has changed the game as much as Android in the last decade? In fact, since Google Search?
- Evan Prodromou
Nice that Dan is back in the tech fold but his bandwidth needs help ;-)
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Keath: I agree. I think if google really started to tightly integrate their apps with android, glass etc. the way apple does, I think would be amazing.
- Michael Roberts
The Smartphone Market has peaked. Rubin knows this
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
Michael: Android already runs on your desktop if you install the emulator.
- Murray Macdonald
you can apparently run android on the chromebook pixel
- Kevin Marks
They're hedging. Why bet the farm on one platform?
- Murray Macdonald
Murray: I guess what I'm saying is why have an emulator at all. If you notice IOS and OSX more and more they look the same to the point where IOS is changing OSX more than the other way around. The same strategy could apply for google.
- Michael Roberts
Heads up display like the US military aviators have used for a couple of decades needs to find its way into the marketplace. So it goes.
- Frank Paynter
Having touch on the Chromebook Pixel is not competing with MS; it's just covering holes, and making sure bases are covered. You don't want someone else sneaking up on you and delivering a nice touch laptop experience and leave you in the cold.
- Kevin Bryan
These OS are just front-ends to the cloud. The cloud is stickier than a front-end client. Clients and client OSs will come and go while gmail and other cloud apps will persist.
- Murray Macdonald
These cloud/HTML only machines are VERY secure. They may find a market in the enterprise.
- Murray Macdonald
Compute in the cloud is the only way to do Computer Vision and Machine Learning for the next 5 years.
- Murray Macdonald
Chromium was the only OS not taken over at Pwn to own
- Kevin Marks
Right now, Apple is chasing Market Gaps in their Product Range. Bigger Smartphone Screens. Mini Tablets. Budget Overseas Phones. Tim Cook is taking Apple back to the pre Steve Jobs era, too many splintered products
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
Keith: I agree, and the trend seems to be this UX experience is getting to be incredibly important.
- Michael Roberts
Glad it has no cell radio. That will significantly help the battery life.
- Murray Macdonald
Google has patents on eye tracking... It would be hard to compete without it.
- Murray Macdonald
L.L. Bean has a wearable tech shirt in the works
- Frank Paynter
Barcodes are passe. Computer Vision will recognize the object before you can touch it.
- Murray Macdonald
At last Google has found their Holy Grail. Eyeball Advertising right in your face!
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
"It was rumored that hackers for big media companies had figured out a way to get through the defenses that were built into such systems, and run junk advertisements in your peripheral vision (or even spang in the ... middle all the time - even when your eyes were closed. Bud knew a guy like that who's somehow gotten infected with a meme that ran advertisements for roach motels, in...
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- Kevin Marks
Try taking your gloves off in -10 on a chairlift. Oops dropped one...
- Murray Macdonald
I think we are winning at first world problems here
- Kevin Marks
boomers want things *now* - the next generation may reject all of this instant access and return to a more in-the-now experience
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
I agree with Dan that this is beginning of the wearable computing. Apple will respond to Google at some point as well as others. The question is how far ahead is Google?
- Michael Roberts
I'm interested in Google Glass. But really dont know what it's going to be like in praticum
- Tina Chase Gillmor
I'm crying nerd tears for Google Reader right now. I use it every day!
- Kevin Bryan
It probably won't understand me any more than Siri does
- Francine Hardaway
We used eye-tracking to shut down kiosk displays when people look away 4 years ago. Also shut down the screen if someone was looking over your shoulder.
- Murray Macdonald
Focusing on Google Reader simply to consume feeds is short-sighted. There are 6,142 recipes on IFTTT.com right now https://ifttt.com/recipes... and many other people use it as plumbing for other functionality.
- Mark Krynsky
anyone publish/curate using scoop.it ??
- Frank Paynter
Activity Streams would be a welcome reboot Kevin.
- Mark Krynsky
Open sourcing or cloning of the Google Reader API that becomes distributed would be nice too.
- Mark Krynsky
Filtering and machine learning can solve that problem. You need to merge RSS, Email, Social Streams, SMS into a single filtered feed.
- Murray Macdonald
the mobile devices have higher res screens than the laptops we were using in 20005
- Kevin Marks
Smaller niche blogs will suffer. My blog still gets much referral traffic from Reader and Feedburner
- Mark Krynsky
Smart filtering needs to be a cloud service, not something managed by each respective feed. We all need to merge our feeds into a single targeted feed.
- Murray Macdonald
Flipboard is great to read, but I can't sort through 150+ news articles at a glance in Flipboard. Only Google Reader.
- Kevin Bryan
Everything is pushing us small bloggers away...
- Mark Krynsky
Feeds and SEO are becoming less important and becoming good at finding how to promote through social media has become critical so that you are funneled into the "new" news feed.
- Mark Krynsky
frank - but Steve is drinking out of his George Harrison glass
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Good. That way people can write their own filters.
- Murray Macdonald
Something not working with Twitter? That's truly surprising considering they are the most reliable service on the net.
- Bjorn Stromberg
i log into twitter and start following a user - cool. i go to FF and try to set up an imaginary friend (enter name, select twitter service, enter twitter name click "import twitter" and BAM: "We could not find the given account" whoever is causing this, it sux and needs to stop.
- MikeAmundsen
interesting. I saw that a bunch of tweets seemed to come into FF 30 minutes late yesterday. I wonder if this is part of a strategy on Twitter's part to disrupt Twitter service within FF in order to undermine the competition without coming out and taking the heat for publicly pulling the API from them. I hope not.
- Thomas Hawk
Figures the day I finally give in to starting a FF page and I can't wire up my Twitter account.
- Tina Chase Gillmor
We're running into some rate limiting issues, but I'm working with Twitter to get them fixed. I just put out a work-around for now, so you should be able to add your Twitter account now. Sorry for the difficulty.
- Paul Buchheit
Same issue for me. It says "We could not find the given account" when I want to add the Twitter account...
- HDG Ticaret
i am able to add one of my twitter accounts with password, but not another. the second one i still get an error account not found. this sucks.
- Sriky
friendfeed is pulling my tweets from twitter. I want to stop this. In settings, I am not allowed to do it anymore. Can someone help?
- Fatmanur Erdogan
Same issue, @Fatma, servislerden twitter'ı sil.
- siniradam
Scoble was talking to Audi, Fox? Did you realize the Audi 80 was called the Audi Fox in the US?
- John Taschek
I was speaking at a conference this week and used Google Glass as an example. I said "has everyone heard of Google Glass" someone in the front row said, "where have you been, it was on the Oscars." oops, should probably watch more TV
- Charlie Isaacs
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- Murray Macdonald
no microsoft bashing about the surface pro?
- Matthew Voshell
You will love Jordan Keith. Great people and food. I loved Amman
- Francine Hardaway
from iPhone
Anything cool on Kickstarter or Indeigogo?
- Matthew Voshell
For a laugh, go to youtube and search "do the harlem shake" .... nice little easter egg
- Matthew Voshell
I believe it depends on how the android developers code their notification.
- Murray Macdonald
Apple need to release something that is much more than a boring TV. It needs to be an iScreen. Come in 4 sizes. Super thin, with Gestures, Siri and AirPlay controls. Apple TV installed, with iOS, FaceTime and the App Store. This iScreen would not only be for the sitting room, but also Shops, Schools, Businesses, Hospitals, Museums, Hotels, etc
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
@Roger Tempo is a US only at the moment, and they are using the Reservation mode.
- Nir Ben Yona
It's easy to clear off all notifications on Android. Much prefer that to Apple's.
- Alex de Soto
My next patent filing will be "restroom jammer"; it will render Google Glass unusable in restrooms. It will be called "Method and Apparatus for Shielding Private Objects"
- Charlie Isaacs
Email was the universal push notifications center. People didn't much like that either.
- Todd Hoff
You don't need to have millions of notifications to keep up to date. I think it's more destracting than helpful to have all these notifications, including the daughter requests
- Ludwig Ederle
@Tina.. Theres the Microsoft bash i was waiting for...
- Matthew Voshell
Yet another show withoug mentioning microsoft
- Ludwig Ederle
Facebook is showing a Press Event showcasing their latest News Feed Update. How many Companies have a Press Event over a Feature Update?
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
@Robert do you envision your life as good as the people on Wall-E?
- Matthew Voshell
Speaking about tutorials: You can activate the LED light on notifications. So whenever a notification is in, the LED light of your camera will blink.
- Nir Ben Yona
Google can't really expect people to buy Pixel
- Tom Guarriello
Apple will never again release the updated versions of both iPad's together
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
Chromebook offers security that is lacking on other machines. If you want to run web apps without risks of infections, it will be uniquely useful to some enterprises.
- Murray Macdonald
It would be nice to have something that showed inline images and handled links in a predictable way. IRC clients are all over the map.
- Murray Macdonald
Question: In terms of context - is there a chance that Google may be looking to take ambient noise in an area and determine things like safety? Sort of a contextual augmented location awareness?
- Kevin Costain
Do the Google glasses use wireless or cellular networks? Or both?
- christina sponselli
The High Streets will be full of Dick Tracies and Robocops next year
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
can I get my home security camera content streamed to my glasses?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Tina: if it already streams to your phone, yes.
- Robert Scoble
Looks dorky though so no mainstream ?
- Ludwig Ederle
Imagine an iWatch is coming soon. Wish they could then ask 100 kids what do they want for Xmas. Google Glass, iWatch, PS4 or Xbox 720?
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
I feel Apple has done very poorly with cloud services.
- Kevin Costain
The biggest thing is HARDWARE. Google Glass Version 1 is going to be old within two years. What will glass generation 3 look like? The app ecospace will evolve, hardware less so. We get stuck with deployed hardware for years. Look at old android devices in the market. Apple could take glass market share with new sensors like eye tracking.
- Murray Macdonald
poor Robert, I can tell he's not feeling well. what a trooper
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Very true Kevin. Apple needs to acquire some big Cloud Data Companies
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
Think of glass in support of any kind - so exciting!
- Ludwig Ederle
Tim Cook is even worse than Steve Ballmer. He will stay in charge cause of the crazy profits
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
The form factor gets locked in. Even with an open-source device push notifications lock it down. Until we have 3rd party push notifications on platforms, they will hold their users tight...
- Murray Macdonald
But, where does Apple go? What could they possibly do?
- Kevin Costain
Robert is right. Context knowledge is important, but it can be learned and transferred. Imagine if users intentionally entered or set their context. Then Facebook/google's unique knowledge becomes less important. If users start being willing to establish or publish their context(s) this whole context landscape will change. We should write an open context standard. The big vendors will try to avoid it...
- Murray Macdonald
The problem is that, while magical products can be made - boring products can be iterated well to become magical. I see lts of things like that. The Gillmore Gang has to get peace from chasing that magical new-ness
- Kevin Costain
The TV is dead. Apple won't make a 'TV'. They will make a Touch & Cloud Based Thin Smart Screen. Siri, iOS and the Apps Store built in.
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
No CC, No BCC, Open email is the @ mention message bus.
- clive boulton
How someone contacts me shouldn't be based on a service. It should be determined based on commonality of options available and least cost and expediency to delivery.
- Jerry Schuman
Don't direct messages deserve to be one person only?
- Aron Michalski
Email is kinda like the canvas. Its lets people and companies build on top on it. like google does with its spam filters, or labels or just about whatever you can imagine. no one company owns the protocols and they are widely adopted. As you can see with Twitter, as soon as they feel threatened they reduce the ability to share. email is just a protocol.
- Michael Roberts
I've been on his low quality list ever since I was told I was a normal person.
- Aron Michalski
I liked the story of the guy that was laid off but continued to work in different offices around the campus while he worked on launching his new startup.
- Jerry Schuman
I think it's more than just about gaming but the battle for our TV's. Gaming is just one aspect. I bought an Ouya and I wrote about the Android angle on this phenomenon http://krynsky.com/android... In MG's post he also poses that Android / Ouya may be a contender
- Mark Krynsky
It's not as good as the BBC show it's ripped from
- Frank Paynter
Why are you so excited about the hbo go airplay?
- Ludwig Ederle
Microsoft better wise up. The Xbox Kinnect is their hottest brand and if they don't up their game, Apple will shoot'em up
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
Android 4.2.2 which I got yesterday for my Nexus 4 introduce "Wireless Display" (via Wifi Direct)
- Murray Macdonald
It takes a BIG Netflix to make a House of Cards. Definitely not a startup product.
- Kurtiss Hare
Tablets will drive the TV as a second display. Games will use the TV for the major display and the tablet/phone as the processor / controller.
- Murray Macdonald
Android (through Google TV) already has exposed the Google app marketplace to STB's on our TV's. It's beyond me why Apple hasn't done the same. They're giving Google way too much time to perfect and gain usage there.
- Mark Krynsky
Apple is looking at Google as if it was a monkey that could never put together the gun, and all of a sudden Google is shooting with it...
- Ludwig Ederle
Or even an HBO (much less likely). I don't know if they can singlehandledly change the game they're in as content creators.
- Evan Prodromou
Netflix appears to be doubling down on original content after HoC, for what that's worth.
- Kurtiss Hare
Will Netflix release DVDs? That's an interesting (new) media lockin.
- Kurtiss Hare
Raspberri Pi is nice hardware Murray but not as functional for a TV to have an Android OS device and the Google Play app store at your fingertips.
- Mark Krynsky
MLB has their own branded app for following games, but doesn't include live footage. Instead, it is an animation of the pitches.
- christina sponselli
Only in the US... Content licensing is per country. I can't watch the majority of these things in Canada let alone the rest of the world...
- Murray Macdonald
our camera is moving around , adjusting itself unnecessarily
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Comcast spun off TunerFish and the CEO is ex Silicon Graphics
- Jerry Schuman
don't even want to think about all the work arounds to watch this stuff in Europe
- Ludwig Ederle