They both consist of a series of online written webpage messages, often including comments, an RSS feed, trackbacks, and categorization. If a lifestream includes all the features of a blog, how is it not a blog? Blogging is dead, long live blogging.
- Mike Chelen
Is there a contest somewhere to see who can ask the silliest social media questions? A blog and a lifestream are two different tools. They can interact with each other, but not really replace each other.
- David Chartier
from BuddyFeed
it depends on what their blogs are. Blogs are the place to write longer form pieces that simply don't work well in most lifestreaming apps - and I really like longer form pieces. The bitesize chunks in lifestreaming tend to accentuate the superficial too easily.
- felix
Until Tumblr came along, there was no distinction about what a blog should be versus a lifestream. Just because a traditonal blog platform isn't necessarily optimized for it doesn't mean a blog on Blogger or WordPress couldn't be used as a lifestream. Really it comes down to what the content is that is being lifestreamed. So if you want to separate them, fine. And if your lifestream is...
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- Jason Clarke
from email
I think most people should. Me for instance, cannot keep my blog updated with any regularity. I guess, in the end that means that blogging (or writing long-form text) was just not my thing. So you are right, that for normal people, who are more "consumers" than "producers", should definitely kill their blogs (I don't know about life-streaming, though) :)
- Shivanand Velmurugan
Do both. I agree with feeding your blog (referring to a blog that is about a specific area of expertise) to your lifestream and letting your audience choose which one they would like to follow. It depends if your audience is interested in only your specialized content and not necessary curious about your personal life or opinion on other topics.
- Mike Smith
I think it's a sad state of affairs when people want to talk about whether or not they should "life stream." How about just living your life and getting over yourself?
- Dawn
Dawn, Lifestreaming isn't always about being a narcissist although many use it that way. It's also about the power of curating the vast content of the web to share with others. And for the record for those that may not have read my post. I disagree with killing your blog.
- Mark Krynsky
I only lifestream (through FF). My Friendfeed is also used as the closest thing I have to a regularly updated blog. It's a combo of both, but more lifestream. I want to republish it in paper form. I recently stopped keeping up the paper journals I had written daily for about 15 years in favor of recording everything electronically. Lifestreams probably won't kill blogs. Other stuff will.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I'm one that finds it simpler and less engaging to use a lifestream versus a blog. However, I guess it would also depend on how much content someone actually needs to write. For short submissions lifestreams are great, but I can't imagine trying to frequently read 500+ word posts on FriendFeed.
- Xavion Saltair
Xavion, what makes reading a long post in Friendfeed more difficult than on any other platform?
- Mike Chelen
No. Some folks like "broadcasting". Others like "publishing". Others like streaming. All converge here. And use varies according to purpose.
- andy
You do not mess with old man strength
- Will Higgins™
The judge said the punk 'got what he deserved'. GOD BLESS THE UK. Also the punk said he 'didn't remember what happened'. Of course he didn't, he got KNOCKED THE F*CK OUT.
- Will Higgins™
I imagine him standing over a bruised and bloody burglar saying "get off my lawn." The picture in my head is pretty epic.
- Aaron Hood
Sorry, I got a little excited by how awesome this story is. The guy kinda does look like Clint, doesn't he?
- Will Higgins™
A big virtual pat on the back there eh... :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
LOL Awesome! I wanna grow up to be just like him ;)
- Paul OFlaherty
This made me smile, how awesome this little fart got what he was due. How dare he pick on the elderly and how wonderful the elderly did rearranging some youthful behavior.
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
He got 4 and 1/2 years in prison along with the beat down.
- Brent - Yes I am
That is why you finish the job here in the US and then place a pointy object in the assailants hand. More mess but less litigation. Odd how blind lady justice can be.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
I don't see why that's such a big deal LPH but I'm not in marketing...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
That logic (250+ Twitter followers = graduate degree) makes Oprah, Britney and @Aplusk all geniuses
- Deano @ Byron New Media
let me make a simple statement... whatever agency, analyst, outside consultant or internal employee who decided that any number of followers should be a metric used for hiring, should be fired immediately. I know you like pushing BB Jeremiah but this should be something you should clearly come out against. I could get 250 followers in 10 minutes. Here's my new tagline "Followers are the new hits." <- will do a post after my "rss subs are the new hits" from last year.
- Allen Stern
I agree Allen, followers isn't the only measurement of success. Good thing they had a long page about other requirements.
- Jeremiah Owyang
This is approaching a similar situation I observed before launching DataPortability Project - everyone saying the same thing but no one saying it definitively in one place - A group of industry people should declare the Personal Recommendations world HERE and define some criteria for recommendations (topics/interests/friends/influence within your circle (not popularity) etc
- Chris Saad
maybe what their agency/analyst should suggest is that those who come in for an interview where a shirt that shows in real-time how many followers they have on twitter? shame on best buy.
- Allen Stern
Allen does my SocialMedian shirt count?
- Jesse Stay
jesse - i am not going to comment on that one **must resist**
- Allen Stern
Jeremiah - that was so good I RT"ed it -- but looking at that job req really indicates some serious gaps! Yikes, BestBuy does NEED a social media manager asap! wow
- Susan Beebe
jorge - already in progress. must get my editor/CEO to approve it
- Allen Stern
A blog with an editor! Lifecasting FTL!
- Jorge Escobar
Paul Buchheit asks "Do You Read All Your Feeds" in Google Reader or your RSS reader of choice? The stats can prove it if you do. (Re: http://friendfeed.com/paul...)
reading on google reader and reading are different things. cant you just "j' through all you articles at blazing speed for the same effect?
- Frankie Warren
I'd like to see ANYONE else that reads 100% of 441 subcriptions :) Oh, btw.. 100% read means you scrolled through the post.. it doesn't mean you read it!
- Tim Hoeck
Yeah - I go through each one but I don't "read" each one.
- Jesse Stay
Who wants to do a comprehension test? Bring it.
- Louis Gray
and I'm *much* more likely to click on FriendFeed whereas I rarely click through the blog on Google Reader
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, that's true (but not this specific issue).
- Louis Gray
I browse headlines more than I actually read items.
- xero
xero, therefore you use Google Reader much like FriendFeed
- Jesse Stay
Louis, but to answer your question, I read 100% of my feeds. Personally, because I use FriendFeed for the important stuff, I subscribe to only a few in Google Reader, but I read all of them. I use FriendFeed for what I used to use Google Reader for.
- Jesse Stay
I read all of them but I only have about 50 subscriptions that produce about a total of a couple thousand posts a day. By "read" I mean I scan all the titles and mark the ones I like for later.
- Mike Smith
i think it's kinda funny that everyone a couple a months ago was claiming "rss is dead cause of friendfeed" and now that rss stats got diluted people are in a huff.
- Frankie Warren
I scan the titles, read the ones I find interesting. Share those I think others may find interesting. And mark the rest as read.
- Araceli
Frankie, I never said RSS was dead due to FriendFeed. I think RSS is great, and thanks to FriendFeed, I actually read more Google Reader than ever before.
- Louis Gray
Just more proof that Louis Gray is a robot.
- Mark Krynsky
well not you specifically :) i personally hardly check my google reader anymore... therefore the statistic that i follow you on friendfeed should be more meaningful to you than the statistic that im subscribed to your blog in reader.
- Frankie Warren
@louis dear lord, you read as much (or more) as the reader team :) and are insanely consistent. Inbox 0 anyone? I can read most of my stuff, but my trends are more erratic. Like, things will get busy on Reader for a little while and I'll get a backload. Reading everything every day seems, unattainable... and yet? :D
- Jenna Bilotta
i always forget people from google hang around these parts... :)
- Frankie Warren
I add a lot of feeds to reader so I can use reader to search them later
- Kevin Marks
@frankie don't worry, I'm not the Reader police. :) FriendFeed is totally solid. :)
- Jenna Bilotta
Jenna, I am more fanatical about Google Reader 0 than In Box 0. E-mail I can get to later. Great to see you here.
- Louis Gray
@louis i'm always here.. i just don't always comment... consider me your #1 lurker.
- Jenna Bilotta
Most days, yes I read pretty much everything, but if I've been away for a few days and am looking at literally 1000's of unread items, then I'm very selective about which feeds get scanned before I hit the "Mark all as read" button.
- Paul OFlaherty
"From your 298 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 6,139 items, starred 8 items, shared 173 items, and emailed 0 items." i only subscribe to as much as i can read, baby.
- MikeAmundsen
75%, although the pastor at the church where my daughter attended elementary school has started a sermon series based on Twitter. See http://twitter.com/redeeme... So if people were awake during the sermon, they've heard of Twitter.
- John E. Bredehoft
I don't attend that church, so I don't know how it went. At least for the first sermon in the series, they tweeted during the service.
- John E. Bredehoft
I am busy converting my Web friends to real life friends, and increasing that percentage.
- Louis Gray
Louis, funny you say that. I've recently become in 2 local groups built around social media. Our local tweetup group LRTweetup.com and RefreshCA. I'm trying to do the exact same
- Keith - @tsudo
I thought this was an interesting quote from Don Tapscott in one of Robert's latest building43 videos. "This is the 1st time in human history when young people are an authority about something really important." (digital revolution) http://www.building43.com/videos...
if i go to the username link while im signed into my account then it doesnt give me an option to change the group URL
- Jason Pollock
I think its best to choose something professional such as your name instead of something stupid, shame had to be less more then 5 characters otherwise I would of chosen my first name!
- Liam Daly
hey I got full name with a dot in the middle and it works without it as well, neat. :-)
- Project Glow Guy
Facebook is just telling me that I picked my URL because I did for my personal page but havent for my group
- Jason Pollock
shelisrael and 1938media were both available a few minutes ago
- Ken Sheppardson
Can you get two usernames or is it one and done???
- Mike
i still cant figure out how to now change my group URL link.. i have over 1000 members in there but the facebook.com/username link tells me i already changed my URL, which i did for my page but not my group page.... any thoughts anyone?
- Jason Pollock
Ben: You are right, it looks like Facebook gives you both FirstName.LastName and FirstNameLastName.
- Rolf Schewe
Jason: when you choose a FirstName.LastName or without a dot Facebook reserve the other for you.
- Vinko
Firstinitial.Lastname also resolves to FirstinitialLastname ...EDIT: in fact, it seems that you can insert arbitrary and multiple periods anywhere and it will resolve to your periodless name, much like a GMail address.
- Tinfoil 2.0
1601californiaave is still available
- Robert Scoble
OMG Allen! facebook is are losers! fuckers!
- Orli Yakuel
seriously u guys r so funny lmao, usernames r so fun to play around with and I took the advantage 2 input mine in the blank space: http://www.facebook.com/pkkha: its a personal one.
- polou/indigo_bow
Jason--after you select your username, you'll see the option to select a name for you pages.
- Kathy Fitch
Michael: I am just seeing if some fun names are available.
- Robert Scoble
Why did they suggest "."s if it was going to ignore them? Wouldn't it have made more sense not to allow "."s?
- Paul Lancaster
seriously--it's one environment that gets progressively less appealing as it develops.
- Kathy Fitch
Stephen: Facebook PR has saved that for me, but it'll take a while because I missed the deadline. I wanted to see if I could get "Robert."
- Robert Scoble
ooohhhh--love the book snowcrash. The robot doggie makes me cry every time.
- Kathy Fitch
facebook.com/asdfasdf redirected me back to home!
- Project Glow Guy
Robert - how are you checking this since you already secured your name? you must have a fake account for this!! LOL
- Susan Beebe
Kathy: "sighing" is still available.
- Robert Scoble
Yes, I fell for Facebook's massive publicity stunt and got sucked into watching the timer count down to zero so I could get /freddavis... same as I have here on FriendFeed, Twitter (if I ever get into my account again, sheesh!), Flickr, etc. ...and beat out the over 2,000 other Fred Davis's in the US... (sorry Redskins fans)...
- Fred Davis
ATX should get an exception to the five letter minimum rule
- Gary Etie
What's more valuable on a social media site than your OWN name when all you are doing is selling yourself?? Some silly name suggestions up there. Even for nerds...
- Dean Kakridas
top100 is not available. top1000 is.
- Robert Scoble
actually, my user names are worth more to me than my real name, Dean.
- Kathy Fitch
So is Facebook doing the "verified names" like Twitter?
- Jorge Escobar
I should have gotten "sidneycrosby" or "kobebryant" just to get a zillion hits over the next few days.
- Kevin Mohr
I agree, kathy. I went right for dthree, not my real name
- dthree
StephenPickering wasn't hard but there is a guy in Australia who's going to be pissed at me
- Stephen Pickering
Matthew: I registered "Scoble" for my son at 9 p.m. So that's the answer. I already had RobertScoble saved by PR. But I probably would rather have "Scoble."
- Robert Scoble
This is something that frustrates me. How do I access my fan page from within my account? I don't see anywhere to do it. (I have 2 fans heheeheheh)
- Stephen Pickering
Thanks Kathy, would love to have you as a "fan" but I don't even know how to direct you to the page! hehehehheheheheh
- Stephen Pickering
Hmm... I get the screen "The page you requested was not found."
- Jorge Escobar
Robert: Damn i only have guessing urls to go off after securing my name.
- Project Glow Guy
could it be that the small caps twitter and not the big caps Twitter is available?
- polou/indigo_bow
toptwitterer is still available. So is topgeek. Jorge, remember that I'm using the tool where you can register them. That's the only way to really check.
- Robert Scoble
Beware, just because it says "Page not found", doesn't mean it is available. There is a big restricted list somewhere, and I found one (a city name).
- Paul Holmes
Paul: funny, "restricted" is still available.
- Robert Scoble
Scoble, what 's the record for # of comments on friend feed - are you going for the record? BTW - I love friend feed.
- Robert Freeze
halfmoonbay looks like it might be available
- Gary Etie
facebook.com/fail appears to be available, as well.
- Paul Holmes
Robert Freeze, I don't think record threads are created, I think they happen. Lots of people try to get one going, whereas Scoble just has the dynamics going at this point in time, and I think he'd agree.
- Gary Etie
I got my name! Go ME! I don't care if anybody likes facebook or not but I really think it's important to have your own name so no one else uses it.
- Sheryl
Sheryl: Especially when its common :-P Take that 500+ other me's on facebook.
- Project Glow Guy
Facebook will be busy looking with trademarks infringements this coming few weeks!
- polou/indigo_bow
@polou - I know, it's still kind of funny
- Paul Holmes
I tried 2 put a submission 2 my biz name, but the biz number reg was not defined clearly. We have IDs with names and since laws are different in Canada and elsewhere then US.
- polou/indigo_bow
Ben: Agreed. Mine isn't as common but I tried for my first name and it was gone. Good thing I use my full name everywhere. Continuity. :)
- Sheryl
How hard could it have been to prevent creation of trademarked names, without verification from the trademark holder? Easier than it's going to be to straighten out the mess. It's got to be part of the planned hype, with built-in controversy, and ongoing coverage.
- Gary Etie
I'm Zuckerberg, and I'm thinking, how do I force a relationship between celebrities and businesses and FB? Let the world register their trademarked names! Yea, that's the ticket!
- Gary Etie
facebook.com/scobeleizer and facebook.com/scobelizer are still available
- Paul Holmes
The following are taken: pagenotfound, 404error
- Project Glow Guy
odd those pagesnotfound and 404eror r taken wonder 4 what the reason?
- polou/indigo_bow
The notorious "dot" issue - no need to worry if you are facebook.com/PaulHolmes or facebook.com/Paul.Holmes, or facebook.com/P.a.u.l.H.o.l.m.e.s. - it all goes to the same page.
- Paul Holmes
Paul: Seems dashes work the same way. ben-cooper = ben.cooper = bencooper.
- Project Glow Guy
So, it has been established, both "."s and "-"s (dots and dashes?) are ignored at Facebook. At Gmail, ".", dots are ignored, "-", dashes are not. At both FB and Gmail, g.a.r.y.e.t.i.e = garyetie = gary.etie. but ≠ g-a-r-y-e-t-i-e, or gary-etie, for Gmail.
- Gary Etie
I just decided to continue in my 12 year old mistake and take iphigenie again.
- Iphigenie
It would be getting harder to register firstname.lastname by now (Unless you have a more unique name). After the main one is taken you get reverse name taken lastname.firstname then they start spilling out to using initials which multiplies the amount of people that could also use it. All variations seem to be taken for my name now.
- Project Glow Guy
ender and enderwiggin are both taken
- Jeremy Toeman
seems like all LOTR, harry potter, and star wars names are gone... guess i'll just go with my own name, though i'm in no rush, since nobody else seems to have it. :)
- Jeremy Toeman
Think I have struck gold - Apple, Mac, Iphone, Ipod is avaiable
- Asgeir
You think getting a clever name is funny now, but it's like a bad tattoo,in a few years, the fun will have worn off
- Jeremiah Owyang
I'll bet it'll be more like days, Jeremiah.
- Ken Sheppardson
MyClass.SQLCommand := "SELECT * FROM SocialMedia.FaceBook WHERE Free=true" .. uh.. or the like ;) Damn ObjectPascal & SQL GUIs!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
oooh! gefiltefish is available... tempting
- Jeremy Toeman
I have secured my regular pseudonym zigojacko (http://facebook.com/zigojacko) although I'm looking forward to when they release usernames for Facebook pages :)
- Geoff Jackson
When I could eat bread, yes. Another tip, flip it so the crust ends are on the inside and make your sandwich, no one will be the wiser.
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
i eat the heels as the last pieces of the loaf if they haven't gone stale yet... when i was young, my mother would put the heels in her cookie tin to keep the cookies moist a tad longer
- Chris Heath
I do. Although I have been on this flat-bread kick as of late.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
No way. The only time is when someone tricks me and flips it inside out.
- Joshua Schnell
Yep. Well most of the time. Sometimes it depends on how hungry the chickens look. dry it first before feeding it to birds though. Otherwise they get the, well you know, they need to run to the loo a lot. Oh, wait chickens don't do that.
- Henk de Kruyff
We used to throw the heels away but now we feed them to the ducks in our apartment complex.
- caj needs a haircut
Nice, this looks pretty good. The story of how he started to become Big Boss and create Outer Heaven? Interesting. Also, 4-play over ad hoc looks pretty cool.
- Chieze Okoye
Yeah, but no accelerometer, no touch, no cam... It seems like technically, it is behind the times a s little bit. Its not like there are changing the platform to push more polygons or whatever.
- Darrell Bell
from twhirl
I'm sorry - Sony, has done nothing to change the fact they got their asses kicked my M$ yesterday. PSP Go is not going to cut it this year when it comes to innovation.
- Darrell Bell
Bwana... I thought E3 was the place to show innovation, and to show people can expect for the next year. Remixing the PSP vs creating a new gaming paradigm. Well, I know you think its and apples to oranges type of thing, but I am not seeing it Sony this year. *shrugs*
- Darrell Bell
I hope that the tasks that you do for side missions will be more varied. New moves is cool and all, but that's what really wore on me in AC1.
- Chieze Okoye
I feel sorry for these guys...sitting in their rooms last night watching the Microsoft show and knowing that they were going to have to show THIS thing today
- Eric Thomas
Yes this is the year of motion control games
- Ian P
that was a really awesome look forward. (especially considering how early it was shown)
- Chieze Okoye
This is cool. Both new motion systems have their own unique benefits. Should make for some neat games, and differentiated games for each system.
- invariant
ENGINEERING DEMO! That's why it looked like crap.
- Aaron Hood
I don't think Nintendo was PWND just yet. Motion + is here now (relatively speaking). The PS3 stuff, has a lot of potential, but it is a ways off.
- Darrell Bell
had a few sure, but in comparison to the competition? not enough
- Richard Lawler
I hate to say it cause I love GoW, but this doesn't look all that different gameplay wise. I hope Sony will put this team on something new after 3.
- invariant
Microsoft impressed me most last year. But, this year Sony impressed me the most by far.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Nintyendo is playing an entirely different game, and anyone who hoped they'd come back to the fold should recognize by now that they won't
- Richard Lawler
argh.. there were 2 sony threads going on. I missed this one
- alphaxion
clearly they're not, which is why it's fairly baffling to me that they keep trying to pay lip service to hard core gamers. Just cut your losses, embrace your new casual gaming fanbase and don't show up at E3 (do your own events, CES, stuff like that)
- Chieze Okoye
this "casual gamer/hardcore gamer" split is a bit bull. Casual gaming is where the industry started and they don't have to be mutually exclusive. I'd rather make the distinction "shovel ware" and "games" ;P
- alphaxion
Yeah, I gotta get back to making games for these damn systems :-).
- invariant
not to taint the thread, but Nintendo's hardware. I mean, come on man. 480p? I mean, they are so far behind the curve on so much, and M$ and Sony are coming with their own motion/casual experiences. I dunno, somebody is still playing the Wii - I just don't know those people.
- Darrell Bell
alphaxion, you do have a point, but I do think that in the case of Nintendo, they are definitely making the dichotomy between casual and hardcore very stark.
- Chieze Okoye
@darell but graphics are only a small component of the game, not the deciding factor. Take a whirl around the PC indie scene and tell me you need 1080p for a fantastic game. I'll give you a starter - Darwinia.
- alphaxion
in any case, Sony did bring their A game this year. Good show.
- Chieze Okoye
What Nintendo's missing out on without HD resolutions is good video streaming, which may or may not be important for these boxes in the future.
- invariant
aye, it was a good presentation. Some let downs tho... €250 for the PSPgo? bzzzzt no sale
- alphaxion
@alphaxion ... Agreed. I was just drawing a line to say how their hardware is aging exponentially, and they can't compete in the territories that M$ and Sony live. They have planted themselves squarely in the kid friendly/casual box. There isn't room for "Golden Eye" on the platform.
- Darrell Bell
I don't understand the PSP strategy at all. They're going to sell both?
- Richard Lawler
And no way to get your existing UMD games onto the Go, right?
- invariant
and modnation racing seemed like they'd taken spore and trackmania and given it a splash of mario kart
- alphaxion
modnation could be good, but its got to be a great racer first
- Richard Lawler
by that logic, you can break any new IP into existing games
- Bwana ☠
Who is the developer for Mod Nation Racer?
- Dakota O'Neill
I think that modnation has great potential.
- Chieze Okoye
media molecule, @bwana I wasn't saying it was a bad thing. :)
- alphaxion
@Richard... I think they invested too heavily in the 3000 to invalidate that hardware so soon. If they wanted to be more impressive - they would have added more hardware capabilities. If you have a 3000 - there is no reason to buy a GO
- Darrell Bell
Richard, PSP strategy == DS strategy for now
- Chieze Okoye
sell a slightly better variant of the one that's been out that plays the same games of the old one and keep selling them both at different price points
- Chieze Okoye
dunno if they're going to give you a way to import your UMD games to the Go, but hey, who knows
- Chieze Okoye
I hope they haven't DRM'd the hell out of the PSPgo tho, it needs to be "buy once, transfer to any of your PSP's any number of times" (with the PSP's serial being logged against the digital copy so you can track any piracy).
- alphaxion
you can buy games on the PSP or via desktop
- Bwana ☠
it's more a speculation than assumption to me
- Bwana ☠
didn't they basically say that that's what's gonna happen? Plus I don't think that it's that big of a leap in logic considering that you can do it PS3 --> PSP right now and there is desktop PC software
- Chieze Okoye
@chieze this is sony we're talking about.. these guys never learn their DRM lessons ;)
- alphaxion
Great thread everyone. Thanks for setting it up Bwana. Did they say when Gran Tourismo 5 is coming out? That game I will need to see more details. I am very encouraged from what I read though.
- Amani
Nope, no date for GT5. I wager that they finally can put more resources on it, since GT PSP looks ready to go this October (Also, FINALLY). The trailer looked pretty awesome.
- Chieze Okoye
I agree. I hope it can be released by the end of the year. I am going to find some of the developer guys for GT to follow on twitter and engage in conversation. I think the NASCAR license was recent so perhaps that was the last hurdle.
- Amani
from IM
If it were comnig this year, you really don't think they'd have mentioned that?
- Richard Lawler
If you're a reallllly good little boy, they MIGHT let you buy GT5 prologue 2 (still without every thing they've promised) in 2010.
- Richard Lawler
Richard, you're not going to change anyone's mind, dude. One game will have the normal and high powered racing of the past games, NASCAR, WRC, Motorcycle racing (still just a promise, no footage yet, I'll grant you), a proven pedigree of physics and speed modeling, 800 or more vehicles (speculation based on GT PSP and Blu-ray disc capacity), damage modeling, videos for car enthusiasts,...
more...
- Chieze Okoye
.....and GT5 Prologue was an incomplete demo that rode on the coattails of its high selling predecessors It's not snark to be realistic about what is in the game and what isn't. Polyphony digital does not deserve to be given the benefit of the doubt when they haven't shipped a game in 5 years, and the one they did, was woefully out of touch with current generation competition. I'm going to play a racer this year, not sales numbers. That pedigree of physics modeling is a joke, it doesn't compare.
- Richard Lawler
I'm not trying to pick a fight, and that's fine that that's your opinion of the game. I'm just saying that you're not really convincing anyone. At least, I don't think so. And while being realistic is not snark, I would say that "if you're a reallllly good little boy..." is (one example -- but don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that all you said was snarky).
- Chieze Okoye
The nub...it makes it better. We swear!
- Doug Jones
Why do the people who give video game presentations act like they have stick stuck up you know where. They are all so stiff. Laters everyone. I look forward to reading the comments in this thread while in transit.
- Darrell Bell
from twhirl
No, not a new controller. Wii Motion Plus was talked about extensively last year at E3.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Everything they have shown with that new add-on looks like you can already do with the wii-mote? I dont get it
- Simon Wicks
Considered selling mine too. Nintendo games don't have much replayability for me.
- Mike Smith
funny everyone is talking about dusty Wii's.... mine was dusty until I bought Punch Out
- Bwana ☠
There are a few games I want to play. But, overall Nintendo has gone downhill for me. Hell, I even started pirating DS games because of how much Nintendo pissed me off.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
I never thought I'd say this, but while watching this I cannot wait for the Sony people... ;)
- Holger Eilhard
Guhmshoo just showed how little thought Microsoft put in to the name.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
They're all hype and no substance. They thought a clever name would get them in the game, and it make them look dumb. I'm guessing Bing is Live with a new name.
- Chris Spizzirri
Are they allowed to even use Google as part of their name? Clearly bing is just an abreviation if this is really the case and I would of thought that would be a no no.
- Simon Wicks
is BING run using GNU software? recursive acronyms FTW.
- Andrew Feinberg
They may have chosen the word hoping that it will be used in the future like google is used today. "Just Google it!" "Oh, I don't know the answer to that question Bob. Hold on for a second while I bing it." =)
- Mike Smith
And "Bing" is also the Scottish mining term for "slag heap" the waste materials from mining... hmm not sure I'd be wanting that connotation Microsoft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Belinda Simcox (Sim)
That actually seems kinda lame. How many good products use a competitor's name in their own? Aside from the Zune, Microsoft's marketing department is one of the worst aspects of this company.
- David Chartier
from BuddyFeed
Bingisnotgoogle.com actually points to Google search. Interesting!
- Arpit Dhariwal
it's a nice web search but I honestly don't think anything will replace Google search. It's just too common. People should just move on. What honestly would replace Google as the #1 search engine?
- Toby Howell
It's a little late for MicroSoft to be turning to Open Source-flavored linguistic wordplay for salvation.
- Chris Keene
wow that was good. I think BING = Bing is Not Good.
- Alp
the colloquial version: BANG = BANG Ain't No G[whatever]
- 9000
Bing actual returns pretty decent results, buts its going to take a revolutionary product to displace Google and unfortunately for Microsoft, BING is not it...
- Oral Seymour
Whatever it is, it sure looked slick as hell. I really need to see it in person to believe they've pulled that kind of facial recognition and motion gesturing off.
- Arawak
Because of time constraints I'm trying to NOT be comprehensive, but just give a taste of the best of the tech industry innovation lately and what it could mean to their businesses.
- Robert Scoble
ask them how they are measuring all this stuff.
- Brian Watkins
Brian: will do, but in many ways we are too early for measuring. I bet they haven't even heard of a lot of this stuff.
- Robert Scoble
Nick: that's probably true, but they signed up a million people so are an example of a consumer service that's done well.
- Robert Scoble
David: I might mention them, but I'm not trying to be comprehensive.
- Robert Scoble
I think open standards need a mention since Microformats is now even supported by Google. Automating to extract information from structured data brings great opportunities.
- Burcu Dogan
Scoble: I think you have to have Twitter, they all know it but it has to be there, it is a platform that engages and ties with a lot of what is in your talk
- Lou Paglia
Mobile is way under-emphasized... I think that's gonna start getting bigger and bigger and bigger...
- Joel Haasnoot
Joel: I agree, I could spend 16 hours just on mobile. :-)
- Robert Scoble
++Joel completely agree. mobile is bigger than ever now and 2010
- Lou Paglia
Have you added calibration tools for product demos and training ?
- William Lopez
William: no, what kind of tools are you thinking of?
- Robert Scoble
Have fun, remember most people hate sitting in their seats more than 20 minutes, make they get up and down a little. Ask one of them to come up and do pushups.
- Halley Suitt
ome emphasis on Web Services - and agree on the Mobile detail required!
- Manoj Menon
Just don't let them challenge YOU to a push-up battle ... no fun, even for me.
- Halley Suitt
could have major topic not about tools but "paradigm shifts", the breakdown of the walls between the enterprise and the rest of the web, 2010 CIOs will contend more than ever with not being able to put four walls around their corporate constituents
- Lou Paglia
I underplay mobile because I could spend hours on just that. Heheh. I have 30 minutes.
- Robert Scoble
Lou: absolutely! That will be a subtext to everything.
- Robert Scoble
Hmm, but mobile is moving more and more to tailor-made-mobile, not just a bare bones version of the website: maybe that's a paradigm shift you could mention.
- Joel Haasnoot
If CIO's aren't careful, paradigm shifts become paradigm shafts, as they take a sudden beating in a marketplace.
- Halley Suitt
there is the issue of "mixed discovery" I am missing; a ping pong of subjects and peoples when you use twitter e.g.; you go from @person to #issue to @ person etc ... - that is a new kind of serendipity; could be used to have new ideas about marketing
- Willi Schroll
You forgot to show the Oprah-fication of any modern technology.
- Pete Barry
I am missing the integration bit ... not sure it really exists yet. The problem is that this is way too many tools for any one company. so possibly just a missing item.
- Oliver Thylmann
@halley they can either be part of the movement and coach their organizations through the changes as a thought leader or many can continue to try to put up "sand bags" and there is where the your term, shaft, will come.
- Lou Paglia
What about Hulu under video? For me it's an important piece. :)
- James Furlo
I just gave a similar talk here in LA yesterday. My take on it as a former CIO is how the consumer/general internet systems are tackling the problems that have plagued enterprise. From single sign on to data portability, transparency, collaboration and real time communication. They need to start looking at these systems as the model for the new enterprise in 2010 and beyond.
- Jerry Schuman
In cloud, what about development availability, S3, EC2, gist, gnip, the glue movement, shared data center and server resources (there's your Rackspace plug)
- Lou Paglia
Boxee might be a good topic as they are trying to make it a media player with a social web component.
- dthree
Lou: that's another area I underplayed on purpose because I could spend an hour there. Personally it'll lead us down a rathole and keep us from talking about the bigger trends. If they start deploying anything new they'll need hosting and we'll be involved in the conversation then.
- Robert Scoble
David: Boxee is a good one to discuss.
- Robert Scoble
an overall theme is the shift in technology moving consumer to enterprise rather than the other way around. For companies its more important than ever to look at what startups/small biz are doing vs thinking "they'll be using my big system in 5 years".
- William Kapes
Should Boxee really be on a CIO's radar at this point, is convergence of web with the digital home even part of the CIO conversation, should it be?
- Lou Paglia
Sometimes I wonder if CIO's really grok the way the folks they support WORK day to day. Sometimes we're at home w/a crying baby, sometimes on the road w/customers, sometimes in the office. As a sales marketing geek for years, I always wanted to scream, "Hey guys, I'm in a rental car on a frigging windy road north of Portland in a thunderstorm trying to connect to the system to get the new pricing sheet, do you GET my life? Help me out here!"
- Halley Suitt
Are you using MindManager for your mindmaps, Robert?
- Rohit
Lou: good point, gotta stay focused a BIT on business, but the changes in TV do have implications. I just was at Adobe and they are enabling 1080p high def to both browsers and TV.
- Robert Scoble
Rohit: yes, this is done with MindManager.
- Robert Scoble
The ideas behind technologies like Wolfram|Alpha and Hunch
- Mike Smith
Robert - Here's a Mindmeister Mind Map that I've been working on here and there for some time now - I don't have geolocation-centric sites listed, but otherwise, this is a handy look at the social-sphere: http://www.mindmeister.com/maps...
- Enrique Gutierrez
Mogulus in the live video section? And why not other sites, like BlipTV or others, for those who edit and upload higher quality videos that are shareable?
- Ken Kaplan
Since these are CIO's you can talk about how sometimes even "outlaw" technologies can find a place in the modern workplace. There are companies using BitTorrent to push out updates among sites, saves on bandwidth since it goes distributed. But I think the biggest focus of your talk, since its you :), should be the influence of the social and real-time web and its impact. Again, your strength and you've only got 30 mins
- William Kapes
Ken: good point. I love Blip. But again I wasn't trying to be comprehensive.
- Robert Scoble
topline think this may be too granular for most CIOs - this group is broad predictions for the path + a few examples. Functionally expand microblogging add Twitter then let niche apps flow from there.
- Carol Lynn Martens
Doesn't LinkedIn apply. There is a lot of professional interaction and the Answers section for mentoring.
- Alan Eggleston
CIOs are going to be most interested in security, and not necessarily hampering the discussion (some will), but rather how they can track what people are saying within the company, and how they can better train those that use social media in the company. At least that was my experience speaking to a similar group of CIOs in Dallas last year.
- Jesse Stay
Alan: I was on purpose leaving out older social networks like Linked In, Twitter, and Facebook. I want to focus on what's disruptive.
- Robert Scoble
not sure if this was asked above...but will there be a video of this, Robert?
- Carlos Ayala
Carlos, nope, sorry. Usually with a small intimate group (only about 20) they want to have off the record conversations.
- Robert Scoble
Unless I missed something there may be a gap in terms of viral video (YouTube, etc), shared image hosting and slideshows, and even presentation sharing (SlideShare, AuthorSTREAM)--with literacy and attention spans down these become key communication components IMHO on two levels -- ease of use (post once link anywhere) and ability to comment and rate to build communities of passion.
- Tom Bunzel
Quick question robert: which programs do you use on your mac and iphone to access friendfeed?
- Rohit
What about Evernote in the "Cloud and Collaboration" topic? It's ubiquitous... web, desktop, iPhone, Blackberry, etc.
- Kurt Rosenkranz
Roger that Robert, understood. Thanks.
- Carlos Ayala
Azure, App Engine, Rack Space Cloud, Amazon EC3, etc... Something had to run all those things in your mind map.
- Jeff Weber
Google Apps under both Office and Collaboration
- Scott McMullan
You can tell them: because of the "cloud" most of them won't have a job in 2 years, because of social-realtime web, most of their businesses won't make it through the depression
- Tweet Feeds
I know you're trying to keep the map slim, but: Google Voice, drop.io, and the mention of Evernote on iphone - the snapnote feature (mobile image capture/upload + OCR + desktop, web/feed access).
- Micah
Robert tell Joel I said hi back - you two should do lunch some time and have him show you some of the stuff they're doing.
- Jesse Stay
Hope you guys blocked out a few hours of your time. Robert kind of talks a lot.
- Jerry Schuman
Hi CIOs, the smarts are moving to the edges of the organization so dust off your resumes, your roles are obsolete
- Tweet Feeds
I think there will be more mixture between real life and online life. Sharing identities & connections will be as common as exchanging business cards right now. And, I predict, you will be tagging real-life objects with your phone (or your My name is E connector) to put them as favorites online. Or to ask for a product sample with one simple motion (thanks to nfc and rfid). So, 'sharing identities / mixing real and virtual' deserves some attention... Good luck!
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
Hi from the Netherlands. Just to point out you need more focus in your MindMap on international collaboration tools :)
- Rene de Vries
Robert, perhaps touch on how they plan to serve the business / marketing side more effectively? Maximize available man hours, evolve prioritization criteria, etc.
- Jeff
Oh. And great to see Wakoopa on the list there. 'You are what you use' is a pretty powerful social indicator.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
How about adding VMware under Cloud and Communities.
- Shobhana
@Home Depot: I'm no Luddite, but I did not at all like the automated checkouts at first. Now I'm coming around - last week had the quickest turn-around shopping experience at a hardward store that I can remember. Sorry, back on topic now :)
- Micah
i would add geezeo next to mint and perhaps txtblaster next to tatango
- Allen Stern
Nice job, Robert. $1 to first CIO (other than me) from that room who responds to this message. :)
- Joel Dehlin
Joel you're one of the *only* CIOs I know that uses FriendFeed. You've been using it for over a year now I think, haven't you?
- Jesse Stay
from email
Jesse: I think there may be a few other ones onto friendfeed, but I think I might have shocked them with a look at my real time feed. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Joel, nice meeting you, I'll find out the answer to your question. Can you follow me here on friendfeed so I can DM you?
- Robert Scoble
Don't forget about Dropbox under "cloud and collaboration". One of my favorite tools by far.
- Brandon Titus
Under Consumer, I would add a major value and coupon site like RedPlum.com personally as companies like Home Depot and Pepsi can relate to this.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
@scobleizer Awesome mindmap. Why does youtube not make the map under video?
- Kevin Murray
Kevin: now that I've given a speech I need to go through and make it much more complete. For the speech I was going for disruptive stuff that was changing right now and that would jog my memory. As it was we didn't get through the complete list. 30 minutes flies by.
- Robert Scoble
like that I could read your mindmap on my iphone - funny though when I saw web 2010 I thought - ah robert is providing a glimpse of the future to disconnected cio's - then realized that's a little over 7 months away - wow time flies :-p
- mike "glemak" dunn
mike: and keep in mind that the car industry has changed the definition of a year anyway. I'm getting my 2010 Prius in a week or two.
- Robert Scoble
Don: there is a lot of money in amusements. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
after reading this thread "better" - there have been many cto's on friendfeed for awhile now, different dna than cio's - justsayn :-p
- mike "glemak" dunn
you covered all that in 30mins? Or was this the handout.
- Ryan Stanley
Ryan: we got to one or two nodes. Heheh. I don't do handouts.
- Robert Scoble
ROI - Robert - is there a slide that tells them why? Jack Welch would tell you that if you are not measuring this you are not managing it. The only way to persuade grey beards like me is to show them why it is worthwhile otherwise in this climate more than any other time - experiments for the sake of just learning and playing will get short shrift.
- Simon Rogers
Scobes: thanks for the reply on the youtube q. your mindmap is my new "must understand" check list. thanks again for all your contribution.
- Kevin Murray
What about integrating home - all the appliance at home if we can control it from the net. .....security has too be very good.
- anamika
I'm curious as to how the CIO of Home Depot responded. Being a B&M hardware store, they aren't very big on Tech (ask me about using and deploying Office 97 in 2004 *shudder*). When I was there, there was lots of energy going in to SAP and other ERP related products/projects but not much energy going into making sure employees could use those tools. I digress...so how did it go?
- EricaJoy
EricaJoy: I don't remember a specific response from him. There was some of the usual pushback about why I would share so much of my life online. Other than that I was impressed that they were very literate on the topics and services I showed.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I don't see sync and version control products on your mind map. I think they are getting important for information management.
- Arvind
any chance you'd post final draft - maybe in original form (not pdf/jpg?) also - camtasia recording of presentation could be fun
- Courtney Engle
Don't see SlideShare it'd be handy under Collaboration and if not on this presentation perhaps on one with a focus on the next stage or under implementation strategies.
- James Stratford
open web identity: add Firefox (with 200+ downloads...); Jammer is spelled Yammer; add AWS at cloud services; I would definitely move Ning to 'community' (it is also realtime; but first of all it is the most important community building platform; very popular in the Netherlands); Google Apps for collaboration
- Jeroen De Miranda
Robert, if you have time to answer quickly, are you using the Mac or Windows version or both?
- Gregg Morris
i am late for this but, i wud also add twine and streamy..not sure where though. i thought i saw analytics up there...definitely a must. also really confused as to how evernote helps brands connect with consumers.
- Freddie Benjamin
just saw you have the apps room in there, did you get a few words in about it?
- Zee.
Zee: we talked about friendfeed but I don't think we spoke specifically about that room.
- Robert Scoble
You left out Search, Commerce, Mobile - no? All of these are critical business drivers, platforms, customer channels. All are shifting, seismically under their enterprise feet.
- Thom Kennon
it's not available outside of the US, so doesn't get a like from me
- Ben
I have been using amazon since launch. DRM free, AAC-free, compatible & reasonable quality. and the catalog is up to snuff as well.
- Doug Haslam
from twhirl
I'll never be a fan of any of these sites until they start offering lossless files.
- Akiva
This is available on emusic now (in Canada too!). I subscribe for 30 downloads/month at $11.99 so this 15 track album is effectively $6 there for DRM free MP3s. On Amazon it's $9. [Shameless mode: ON] If you're thinking of signing up their 'Tell A Friend' (Tell a FriendFeed?) program could score 50 free tracks for both of us. Let me know... :-) [Shameless mode: OFF]
- Andrew Codrington
If you can tell the difference between a 240kb MP3 and lossless, Akiva, then that's OK. I cannot, even on my home theater system.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I've been using the Amazon MP3 store from the first day it opened. The only time I used the iTunes store since was when I got a giftcard for it for Christmas.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
I hope that's not the official Forrester recommendation. :-)
- Louis Gray
I haven't even searched iTunes for new music since Amazon opened their store. I see no advantage to iTunes right now. The Amazon catalog may be smaller, but I'm finding more than enough to buy.
- Kevin C. Tofel
Amazon is my backup if I can't find it on eMusic.com.
- mrshl
Welcome. We've been waiting for you. =)
- Mike Smith
One of the advantages of iTunes is that i can buy straight from my iPhone. Thats a tough advantage to beat.
- Roberto Bonini
@jstorerj has been espousing the virtues of Amazon's music store for the same reasons your list. I may have to make the switch soon.
- Aaron Strout
from twhirl
I have been using it more and more, their selection is still a bit bare.
- Spencer
I love Thievery Corporation, been to two concerts, getting the "Radio Retaliation" album right now, thanks for the tip. My first buy on Amazon MP3 and I hope it will work well with my iTunes, we'll see :-)
- Frederik Hermann
I have 5 Brighkite, 20 Evernote, and 5 Aviary invites. Post your email. Also, if you happen to have any for Orgoo, FireEagle, or Socialthing. I am looking :-)
Obama's already said he'd create a federal CTO position for improving infrastructure, broadband networks, and communication between govt. agencies. Haven't heard anything close to this from Mccain.
- Nathan Hull
McCain has talked some good talk on green tech, but I have to think Obama, being of a younger generation, will be more agressive with technology. Witness this simple fact: Not only does Obama have a twitter account, but he actually uses it. Other candidates have an account but never use. Obama has also shown a real understanding of the net nutrality issue
- David Jacobs
from Alert Thingy
The tech industry is probably the last bastion of laissez-faire left in America....hence the constant innovation and falling prices...The last thing I'd like to see is for government to jump in and start tilting the tables. So, the best candidate (for tech, at least) would be the one that maintains the status quo and remains hands-off.
- Chris Rossini
I don't want either of them pretending to do anything for us... just get out of our way and let the really smart people build our infrastructure. UPS and Fedex are way better than the Post Office.
- Kenneth LeFebvre
Agree with Kenneth. They will both make a bunch of tech promises to get votes and the success of the industry will go on with or without them. Although in the end, they will be around to take the credit. Typical politicians right? =)
- Mike Smith
The digital divide is a big issue, and it's something I hope our next Prez will address. Status quo won't cut it.
- Nathan Hull
Obama, plain and simple. If you want to know why, I would recommend you seeing his talk at Google and it will explain my reasoning pretty well.
- Krishnan Subramanian
@kenneth that is one of the arguments that keeps McCain from solidifying his position on net-neut - as a free marketer he believes you should be paid for a service or product you provide but as a conservative he believes in as little government intervention as possible.
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Any of us would be better for tech than either of them.
- Morton Fox
Obama. I see no advantage whatsoever with McCain. But we have to stop our near-sighted vision and think bigger—who's best for the whole country, all issues, the world as a whole, not just the tech industry! Obama has demonstrated that he is Web and social media savvy, understands personal liberty & Web freedom issues. I get none of that from McCain.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
@Cathryn: To McCain's credit (or more likely, one or two of members of his staff), he's invited liberal bloggers to participate in at least one of his conference calls. I may have even read somewhere that he's planning to do this regularly. That seems pretty smart to me, no?
- Bryan Person
@SteveHodson You're right! FF sure did get a lot noisier tonight - after all, it's open mic night at Scoble's World Wide Show.on Friendfeed aka "ScobleFeed" :-) sorry Robert, I couldn't resist the fun!! <FF poke?!>
- Susan Beebe
I sent you a link to me on twitter. now here's another. i still want you to go see the trailers for "man conquers space," too. http://twurl.nl/nlc2ev
- mark zero (Jason)