"Couldn't agree with you more.
Now when you talk about centralizing the information again back to your blog, do you mean just getting a simplified / integrated view?" - Abhishek Tiwari
Yep. Big Spam problem ahead. I've had the same problem as Jack. There are lots of ways to mine for populations on twitter. Look at the Color War pages. Lots of people ripe for the picking. I'm surprised no one has invented the twitter-bomb yet. - Kevin D. White
Have same problem, people adding me with no updates. It's coming.... - Pete Gilbert
I just got back from eating dinner and found about a dozen notifications waiting for Twitter with the same thing Peter .. gonna be some serious pruning to do soon I think. - Steven Hodson
Those of us that have been on twitter a long time and our icon is at the top of many peoples list, have been getting spam followers for a long time. I try to block the major offenders. I wish we had some kind of Hall of Shame to post them to. - Christian Burns
Hey Christian, I'm starting a Hall of Shame at http://stoptwitterspam.com Everybody please send the worst offenders to @stoptwitterspam and I will post them on the site. - Mike Doeff
I too am getting random follow requests from people. I just don't follow them back. I don't see the problem. - Abhishek Tiwari
see I don't think so. People who follow you can't post to your feed until you follow them. They also can't DM you. How can you spam someone if you can't get your message to them. Now TwitterStalking ( which is a funny web app idea ) may be the big problem. - mark
mark, the main issue is people's inbox's getting filled up with the initial Follow requests, taking the time to review the followers' profiles, and deciding whether to follow, ignore, or block the new followers. This is happening 5 times a day for me now and it's getting old. - Mike Doeff
The spam ends up in my inbox not my twitter account. The useless followers get me to click over to their profile then click on the web address to see who they are and more importantly why they would want to follow me; I'm no Scoble. Just a pain to see who they are. Maybe some of that info could be in the email alert from Twitter when they notify us of a follower. Maybe the stats could be listed. - Phillip Miller
Stalking? Why yes I am Mr. Scoble. Spam? Show me how. That would take being nice to people and not pissing them off. NO FUN! - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
Doesn't Pownce and Jaiku have better features...Is it really the end of the world moving to other social services...I think we've all found that being the first people on certain social networks leads to making great connections and becoming an authority more easily. Why are we so afraid of this change? Filling out a registration form and doing all the work to build up your network again? YES, but the value ratio of this work and the contacts you build is greater than that on the "Myspace" or "Twitter." - FaceySpacey
Philip Miller's idea of having more information (stats) contained the email you receive about news followers is a good one. - Greg K.
Don't think so. You have to follow spammers to get their crap. So problem does not exist IMHO - DC Crowley
I agree with @DC Crowley. Just take a look at someone's profile before adding him as a friend. - Greenish
Phillip Miller - that is a great idea (adding the followers / following metrics in the e-mail). I have added your suggestion to Get Satisfaction. http://getsatisfaction.com/twi... - Mike Doeff
twitter as been popular for a long time and still not much spam. It must the fact that you have to follow people to get their spam that discourages spammers. - Sim Domingo
"I integrated it on my FF account too.
BTW, do comments left within FF (in response to Disqus comments) go back to Disqus?
Kinda like the Twitter response." - Abhishek Tiwari
"I integrated it on my FF account too.
BTW, do comments left within FF (in response to Disqus comments) go back to Disqus?
Kinda like the Twitter response." - Abhishek Tiwari
"Raj, Thanks for quoting the line from Spider Man. I do get your point and must say that I kinda agree with it. Most users don't know how an application will behave on the handset. On PCs it maybe okay but mobile handsets is another story. However at the same time I don't like Apple being the sole gatekeeper controlling the access. It gives Apple the complete power to deny access to anyone who remotely does not meet their criteria. Here is what I propose. Apple should continue to offer the AppStore solution. Developers can host their apps for discoverability and distribution on AppStore. However Apple does not prevent any application from running on the iPhone. Apple should merely indicate the type of application and provide user's a warning system. This is very much like the movie rating system. Apple can have an application rating system in place. Most users can utilize this system to download and install applications. If an app has a bad rating as bandwidth hog or spam friendly,..." - Abhishek Tiwari
"Sean,
Yep your assessment is correct. Historically they have done that.
However I still am concerned about the AppStore model where they control the applications and the business model.
Ideally a user should be able to download an application from anywhere and run it however they want. A true open device will hand the control to the end user." - Abhishek Tiwari
Great news! I've been waiting for this since Gcal launched. - Andrei M. Marinescu
Bret does that work on the iPhone? I thought it's just a Windows exe... - Philipp Lenssen
i have use this function before, and do not like ,because i use gmail web client - qian
So the iPhone only syncs Outlook calendars. It doesn't even sync "web calendars" (i.e., it can't sync an ical calendar from Outlook, at least as far as I could tell). So my iPhone method is to sync Google Calendar to Outlook, then sync Outlook to iPhone. If there is a better way for iPhone, I would love to hear it. I was flabbergasted the iPhone calendar didn't support the ical format or any internet connectivity by default. - Bret Taylor
Why don't you use Google Calendar directly on iPhone's Safari? (This question may be stupid, because again I don't have an iPhone.) - Philipp Lenssen
The main reason is alerts and reminders. I sit programming, and I need my phone to ding at me if I need to leave for a meeting. - Bret Taylor
Wonder if SMS reminders would do (that's probably costly) or if you can get iPhone to ping you when you get a new email reminder from Google Calendar, perhaps only when using a certain subject keyword. Google Calendar has a "5 minutes before" reminder setting... - Philipp Lenssen
Now I'm no longer a liar when I said that this would be coming "soon" when we launched Calendar -- at least for some value of "soon". ;) Glad to see this live -- haven't tried it, but I hear its very solid. - Carl Sjogreen
...and Philipp, at least in the states, its free to receive SMS messages and GCal doesn't charge. - Carl Sjogreen
SMS message recipients are charged by some major carriers... - Voyagerfan5761
"Dave,
I agree with your thinking. Google can differentiate heavily. Almost all OEMs (including Apple) have focused mainly on the hardware. Google's focus will be the software and opening up the mobile ecosystem.
I have put together some thoughts in my 3 part series. Check out the first 2 and let me know what you think:
http://abhishek.tiwari.com/200......
http://abhishek.tiwari.com/200......
Would love to hear your thoughts.
ps -- Will be posting the 3rd part tomorrow.
Abhishek" - Abhishek Tiwari
Mobile phones are considered as the holy grail of advertising. They are personal, they are highly customized and highly specific interfaces for users. Potentially they could allow advertisers to target their ads with relatively high specificity. - Abhishek Tiwari
Mobile phones are considered as the holy grail of advertising. They are personal, they are highly customized and highly specific interfaces for users. Potentially they could allow advertisers to target their ads with relatively high specificity. - Abhishek Tiwari
Google officially apologized on its blog today. Bindu Reddy, Product Manager for Google Video posted an entry on Google blog about this and positioned it as an oversight on their part. They acknowledged the mistake and accepted that their initial approach was far away from common sense. Google is not reinstating the service in any case, however its planning to make the shutdown somewhat smoother. - Abhishek Tiwari
Google officially apologized on its blog today. Bindu Reddy, Product Manager for Google Video posted an entry on Google blog about this and positioned it as an oversight on their part. They acknowledged the mistake and accepted that their initial approach was far away from common sense. Google is not reinstating the service in any case, however its planning to make the shutdown somewhat smoother. - Abhishek Tiwari
Sprint who is spending billions in the WiMax network officially announced its brand name yesterday. They will launch this service as "XOHM" (pronounced as zoam). The website went online late last night with basic service information. - Abhishek Tiwari
