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It's amazing how getting out of Silicon Valley helps you re-focus on what matters, & what 'ordinary people' care about (online and offline)
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My normal friends who aren't into tech love talking Avatar, politics, and Tiger Woods. How about yours?
- Robert Scoble
Avatar is a hot topic, no one around here seems to care about Politics or Tiger Woods. The Mac tablet has come up once or twice. But they don't care about FriendFeed, not so much about Twitter, and only slightly more about Facebook
- Chris Saad
They care about Skype/IM, Email, Digital Photo Frames and Mainstream media
- Chris Saad
Which means to me we should be focusing on enabling mainstream media to go real-time, pushing data to photo frames, email and IM clients
- Chris Saad
My observations exactly. Skype, Digital Photo Frames and Tiger Woods!
- Sean Kelly
World-brand-building mistakes France’s entrepreneurs make - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
"1. Don’t be on Twitter. This was a HUGE mistake many French CEOs made."
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
Twitter|small business|trends|marketing - http://www.theage.com.au/small-b...
"The three big trends for 2010 will be the continued rise of social media, thought leadership (where companies show deep understanding of their business and broader market) and a greater desire for connection with your stakeholders, says Mr Sorman-Nilsson."
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
The End of the 2000s: Goodbye to a Decade from Hell - TIME - http://www.time.com/time...
"Instead, it was the American Dream that was about to dim. Bookended by 9/11 at the start and a financial wipeout at the end, the first 10 years of this century will very likely go down as the most dispiriting and disillusioning decade Americans have lived through in the post–World War II era. We're still weeks away from the end of '09, but it's not too early to pass judgment. Call it the Decade from Hell, or the Reckoning, or the Decade of Broken Dreams, or the Lost Decade. Call it whatever you want — just give thanks that it is nearly over."
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
Only crime is passion as Tara ties the eternal knot - http://www.smh.com.au/lifesty...
"AND the bride wore red. Blood red."
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
slight paranoia: 8 Million Reasons for Real Surveillance Oversight - http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2009...
Wow!
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
Paul Buchheit: So I finally tried Wave... - http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009...
Interesting
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
Climate Change | Liberal infighting | Emissions Trading Scheme - http://www.theage.com.au/opinion...
"The Labor left regards the carbon trading scheme as a largely meaningless piece of churn and complexity in support of a meagre carbon reduction target that sends the wrong signals to consumers or polluters."
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
Big Bang nucleosynthesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
"There are two important characteristics of Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN): It lasted for only about seventeen minutes (during the period from 3 to about 20 minutes from the beginning of space expansion[citation needed]); after that, the temperature and density of the universe fell below that which is required for nuclear fusion."
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
AppleInsider | Steve Jobs e-mails terse response to upset Apple developer - http://www.appleinsider.com/article...
"Change your apps name. Not that big of a deal. Steve Sent from my iPhone", love it!
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
How underdogs can win : The New Yorker - http://www.newyorker.com/reporti...
"When underdogs choose not to play by Goliath’s rules, they win, Arreguín-Toft concluded, “even when everything we think we know about power says they shouldn’t.”"
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
Annals of Innovation: In the Air : The New Yorker - http://www.newyorker.com/reporti...
I love Malcolm Gladwell's work!!!
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
Digerati: The Chef: Nathan Myhrvold - http://edge.org/digerat...
""The most interesting aspect of the Internet is none of the technology features; it's putting people in communication with one another, very broadly. Whether that's through Web sites that allow people to publish to a large audience with amazing efficiency and lower cost per unit people that you communicate with; or it's email or Chat or other means to put people in more direct two-way communication. The strength of the Internet is with what people will do with that communication capability.""
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
Superfreakonomics: Everything you know about Global Warming is wrong - Times Online - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol...
"“Everybody turns their knobs” — that is, adjusts the control parameters and coefficients of their models — “so they aren’t the outlier, because the outlying model is going to have difficulty getting funded.”"
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
Clive James isn't a climate change sceptic, he's a sucker - but this may be the reason - http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment...
"In 1973 the cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker proposed that the fear of death drives us to protect ourselves with "vital lies" or "the armour of character". We defend ourselves from the ultimate terror by engaging in immortality projects, which boost our self-esteem and grant us meaning that extends beyond death. More than 300 studies conducted in 15 countries appear to confirm Becker's thesis. When people are confronted with images or words or questions that remind them of death they respond by shoring up their worldview, rejecting people and ideas that threaten it, and increasing their striving for self-esteem."
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
Imagine that you are about to be reincarnated (as a baby human) and can pass along 140 characters of advice. What would you say?
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Assume that the baby will be born into circumstances similar to your own, if necessary...
- Paul Buchheit
Wow, that's a stumper of a question! :)
- Susan Beebe
Learn all that you can, be noble, true, humble, love much. Seek wisdom from your family and friends
- Susan Beebe
I wouldn't need 140 characters: "in whatever you do, strive to do it as well as you possibly can." 64.
- Bren -- Designated Driver
from iPhone
Floss. :)
- AJ Batac
"It's mostly an illusion"
- Paul Buchheit
Never stop learning, enjoy the little things, cherish friends & family, try your best, keep an open mind, and indulge yourself occasionally.
- Nathan Chase
chase your passions, the rest follows. observe everything. work, love and play hard. change happens. live full and balanced. 3
- Charles Ying
What goes around comes around.
- imabonehead
I think Nathan has it! At least he said exactly what I would have written. :-)
- Victoria Plautia
Don't panic.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
from fftogo
Risk is not an option. And eat your vegetables.
- Micah Wittman
Study Thomas, he has more answers than anyone else you will read.
- Alex Scrivener
Number to a Swiss bank safe containing cash, guns and numerous passports. Yes, it is from a movie.
- Peng-Toh
.....so are we trying to guess the meaning of life here? essentially I think that's what this question boils down to. I only need two characters:
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
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- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Fear the fail whale.
- Jim Norris
"If you think you already know the answer, you will never know the answer"
- Paul Buchheit
Alex, which Thomas?
- Paul Buchheit
Plastics, my boy.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from iPod
You're a towel!
- Raphael, Raphael
Don't fear the fail whale.
- Paul Buchheit
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, if you were in their position.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Everything is transitory.
- John E. Bredehoft
Don't tell them I told you this. They'll think you're nuts!
- Larry Hosken
"There's always an easier way"
- Paul Buchheit
I'm surprised no one's quoted Kurt Vonnegut yet. :)
- April Buchheit
April, is that your advice or an observation?
- Clare Dibble
Observation.
- April Buchheit
Stay away from the mohel.
- Leo Laporte
Crush the enemy. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of the women.
- Tad
"Think big. Code small."
- Paul Buchheit
For April: "There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind."
- Paul Buchheit
Phase 1: Collect Handerpants; Phase 2: ?; and Phase 3: Profit
- imabonehead
Just wing it. It'll be cool.
- April Buchheit
Let's git rid of 140 chars nonsense limid.
- Petr Buben
"Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men."
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, try telling April that next time she is frustrated with you; I'm sure it will help ;)
- Clare Dibble
Just told my son this tonight -- Leave the earth better than the way you found it.
- Joe
Don't be such an asshole, asshole.
- Rodfather
@Paul, Aquinas
- Alex Scrivener
"Don't believe it when people say you can't do something. Prove them wrong."
- Cristo
Assuming my reincarnated self has wifi and a smartphone, I might point him to Des'ree's 1990s pop hit: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Doug Beeferman
Treat others with respect. Feed your intellectual curiosity. Don't accept limits others place upon you and often, patience is required.
- Louis Gray
"Nobody else knows what's really going on either."
- Amber, Random Time Lord
LCD is better than plasma
- Alex Scoble
"Its not that bad, stop sh*tting yourself, ;)"
- chaz2b
++Leo, that sounds like very useful advice. :)
- Ruchira S. Datta
In the end it really doesn't matter, enjoy it while it lasts, do what makes you happy, try not to sabotage the happiness of others.
- April Russo (app103)
Don’t sweat the small stuff. It’s all small stuff.
- Laura Norvig
"Dear Reincarnated Self: my head is frozen with the Life Extension Foundation. To get cool advice pls unfreeze me at ur earliest convenience."
- Philipp Lenssen
"Dont be afraid to take chances or march to a different beat. In the end only the soul counts, don't sweat the small stuff. Listen, learn."
- Grant Bierman
Dr. Cable. Watch it. ;-)
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
I dare you to do better.
- Charles Ying
"Please ask the next generation to increase maximum message length."
- Ray Cromwell
BTW, Commander Data was able to get away with sending only 2 *bits* of information into the future/past to break out of a 'groundhog day' scenario. The message: 3
- Ray Cromwell
There once was a site called Twitter. It was worth a billion dollars...
- Sean Kelly
Exercise every day, learn to program asap. I have discovered a truly marvellous proof that these are the right things to do which this twee
- j1m
"I've finally discovered the secret to a contented and effective life, which for you, begins now. This joy can be yours. Just claim it by t" <snipped by character limit>
- Kurtiss Hare
Search for the will of the creator. Prefer the heaven of love to the hell of power.Every moment is unique.Train empathy. Give. [ yeah, I kept in the character limit! Twitter is like life sometimes, only, hu, more limitted :-]
- Willi Schroll
L^2>∞ love of life is greater then time and space. Compassion destroys the destroyer peace above me below me around me down me radiate peace
- Robert Higgins
That's easy: Join friendfeed as soon as possible.
- Jim in Real Time
don't sweat it kid, you just got a do over...
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
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- Edward Coffey
"Propose multiple solutions to every problem. Or choose your own life."
- Ivo Danihelka
Learn Math.
- Alternating Reality Books
"Context is everything."
- Bruce Johnson
from BuddyFeed
@RayCromwell - see my first comment ;)
- Charles Ying
"Listen." The other 133 characters are superfluous.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Ray Cromwell has said it best *rofl* please increase message length!! It doesn't get any better than that! Words of wisdom!! :)
- John Tastad
Seek truth
- Shakeel Mahate
Love always wins. Don't sweat happiness: find joy. (ponders how to translate the "becoming a man" speech from Secondhand Lions into 140 characters...)
- Ladybug Heather
Remember to save often...data and money. Live life like you have a reset button.
- Brian Merriman
Ignore advice. You'll figure it out.
- Todd Hoff
I won't develop the ability to type until years later, so I guess my only advice is "Ga Ga" and "Ball."
- Fleagle
Frankie says RELAX
- VAL D. Zone
It's not just you, they're all crazy. Make as many friends outside the family as you can. You'll want to leave home. Do it. Don't look back. (this is a seriously awesome topic!)
- LAST DAY OF WORK
Follow your heart. Don't worry about failure because apparently reincarnation is real. Snooches!
- Kevin Fox
Dont let others decide for you what is good and right for you. Not even this message.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Learn your math. Especially Geometry. It will make your coding SO much more compelling!
- Joe Nickence
"Don't tweet"?
- Marcos
Actually, I prefer FF..
- ★ Soner Gönül
Well I won't list all 140 but 1 I will is: Do not live your life to live..Live it to die. In other words, prepare for death because all life is about is another chance to get it right so you can end Samsara.
- Merlyn Seeley
"In your past life, you never understood why people liked Twitter."
- Ryan Kaisoglus
the world is made of atoms
- bob
Crawl back in?
- dannysullivan
Use the force. Search your feelings. Live long and prosper.
- Charles Ying
When the time comes, cut the blue wire.
- David Gaw
There's always something bigger than you.
- Daisy
Dear new self: whatever you do, don't make all the same mistakes with your life that I did with mine. For example, you should never ever try [MAXIMUM MESSAGE LENGTH REACHED]
- s t e v e
Don't put twinkies on your Pizza.
- Will Higgins™
You, are fine. To hell w' 'em if they think you're not pretty/funny/smart/rich enough.
- Summer
Find Stuart Diamond and take his negotiation course when you're 16. Love yourself so you can love others. Also, reincarnation exists, and you were a geek in your previous life.
- Daniel Dulitz
Don't wish for what you aren't. Life will be far more interesting than you could ever expect. Play with the cards you're dealt, and have fun
- Bette Cooper
don't play safe gamble every day
- WarLord
Call me Stewie, bow now and pay later. Put another coal in the power plant so you can continue watching this homage and choke on the fumes. [140 and referenced Family Guy, ideology, commerce, ecology, choice, and lost will.]
- William 'Bill' McPhe
"Tom Cruise must be stopped. By any means necessary."
- Otto
Otto, you have room to add "--your mission, if you choose to accept it."
- Micah Wittman
Life is all about ass. You're either covering it, kicking it, kissing it, busting it, laughing it off, or trying to get a piece of it.
- Mona Nomura
Mona, you forgot the part about being one.
- April Russo (app103)
live!
- barbarars
Be kind to animals, nature, others & yourself. Do what you love. Love what you do. Never stop learning about the world around you.
- Bronson Harrington
Try to find the 140 characters you would pass along to your reincarnation.
- Eszter Susánszky
Nap.
- A Mitchell
Ten Meetings Per Day - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
I love Fred Wilson, "If I spent a considerable part of my day reading business plans, referencing people on the way in, I might be able to take five or six meetings. But even if they were all successful, I'd still get less successful meetings that day."
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
How much to tip at hotels, and when: A primer for guests - USATODAY.com - http://www.usatoday.com/travel...
"To try to eliminate uncertainty, USA TODAY asked etiquette and hospitality experts and hotel companies for advice on what to tip at hotels in the USA. Their responses aren't consistent in every instance, but there's a consensus for some common tipping situations:"
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
I Want More Information, Not Less - http://www.feld.com/wp...
Fully agree!
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
The worst things startups do - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
Bertrand Doux, Jeff P. Henderson, Sean Kelly and 6 other people liked this
Mark, for any set of N things, you can have subsets that are worst up to size N-1.
- Bruce Lewis
BAHHHHHHHH NEVER!
- Juan Aaron
What are your thoughts on startups and Roadmaps. Should they be religiously adhered to or should there be one at all?
- Sean Kelly
The worst things startups do - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
Another spot on article from Scoble
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
Answers To 15 Google Interview Questions That Will Make You Feel Stupid (GOOG) - http://www.businessinsider.com/answers...
Classic
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
Enterprise collaboration to rely on Web 2.0 : Gartner - http://www.business-standard.com/india...
"Typically users fall into two camps: those who prefer to collaborate around files and documents, and those who prefer to interact with content and other people directly on web sites. The differences between these two working styles goes much deeper than mere user preference or alternative ways of getting things done as the “mind-set” of working with files affects how people work, attitudes toward security and the impact of governance."
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
Could Facebook breath new life into Instant Messengers? - http://www.inquisitr.com/46480...
"As Om notes this could spell trouble for messaging services like MSN but I wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft isn’t working in a back room somewhere to try and build in XMPP support to Windows Live Messenger. The user base is just too big for them to ignore."
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
Researchers: Prostate Biopsy Not Always Necessary, May Lead To Other Health Ailments - http://www.inquisitr.com/46631...
"Winston-Salem, NC (AHN) – Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that some elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in men may be caused by a hormone normally occurring in the body. What the findings mean is the antigens are not necessarily a predictor of the need for a prostate biopsy, which can lead to numerous health ailments in males."
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
I upgraded to #HootSuite 2.0 because It looks pretty cool and easy to use ... http://old.hootsuite.com/upgrade
Looks pretty neat
- Sean Kelly
AppleInsider | Exclusive look at Apple's new iPod touch-based EasyPay checkout - http://www.appleinsider.com/article...
Seriously cool. Can imagine many other uses for this.
- Sean Kelly
from Bookmarklet
So I played with Twitter Lists a little today. It was fun putting all the people I follow into a nice little boxes. But not sure how much that will make Twitter more appealing to me. I guess it's kind of cool. I'd rather have conversations though.
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My FriendFeeder list was by far the biggest one. :)
- Fa La La La Lindsay
I set up lists, but have yet to find time to populate them. Just not that excited about it.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
It's not very easy to do... At first I was visiting people's home pages to add them, then noticed I could view my followers list and add them there. But the flyout kept getting in my way... It was very clunky. I would rather be able to select a bunch of people or build a list with "auto complete" instead of browsing all my peeps and adding them to various lists.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Am with you all the way on this matter. If I wanted list I could always go back to reading RSS feeds. Also with RSS you know what authority the items have.
- Sean Kelly
louisgray.com: The Five Stages Of Early Adopter Behavior - http://blog.louisgray.com/2008...
Nice article
- Sean Kelly
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Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model - http://abovethecrowd.com/2009...
Paulo Gaspar, Ben MacNeill, Lars Trieloff and 5 other people liked this
less than free is better than free... whee....
- Jeremy Zawodny
For some reason this move by Google raises hair on the back of my neck.
- Sean Kelly
Amazing stuff indeed!
- Paulo Gaspar
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