It's just a D-SLR, only bigger than most of us use. - Brian Johns
That's just insanity. Will be great to whoever can shell out for it. - Tsega D
I liked the closing line on engadget "anyone who buys a 39 now can trade up to the 50 later for the difference in price and instructions on how to properly sleep on beds made of money" - Mel.Buckpitt
“My son is asking another entrepreneur about his business. Makes me proud. Is asking same questions I would be asking: why would I use your service? What makes it special. Entrepreneur answers back "you sound just like your dad." heh.”
mini-scobleizer.com (not a real site) :) I saw Loic interview Daniel...Loic said something like it felt too limited, somebody else tried the same thing. He suggested that Daniel do something like organize teen communities for seesmic and he'd be first customer... - Pokai
Your son should have an account in friendfeed - MicroDump
Daniel is inspiring - he's living the life I wish I could have at that age. The next Ben Casnocha... - Jesse Stay
Yuvi: my son is into WoW, not blogging or FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble
Can I send him after Commissioner Tate? She's obsessed with "protecting children" - Andrew Feinberg
Andrew: Patrick hates people who try to censor what he sees. But you can't change the minds of people who see the world like that. - Robert Scoble
*sigh* so, so true...her fact checking is awful though...I've nailed her several times and she runs away from me in heels now. Protection != control. - Andrew Feinberg
Interesting scuttlebutt on Nikon's resurgence from Michael Reichmann: "Apparently, (at least according to my friend) in about 2005 Nikon's board had a break with the company's senior management. After some 50 years as a dominant player in the Pro camera market Nikon was losing not only marketshare but also "face", because of Canon's dominant position in almost every market segment, but particularly with regard to Pro cameras and Nikons lack of a full-frame competitor to Canon 1Ds series. In short – Canon had been cleaning Nikon's clock, and the board was pissed.
It seems (or so the story went) that the board removed some of Nikon's more conservative senior management and replaced them with more aggressive "Young Turks", along with a mandate to rebuilt Nikon's reputation and market position." - Jason Chen via Bookmarklet
"If Canon serves us up a warmed over 5D, with just the mandatory upgrades and a slightly higher resolution sensor, then they'll fall into Nikon's trap" - this is my concern, that it's back to the drawing board for Canon and 5Dii. - Jody Carbone
C'mon folks, it's not gonna be the end of the world for Canon if they don't blow our socks off with the 5DII just like it wasn't the end of the world for Nikon for the past however many years while Canon was having their way. Canon can cede the field to Nikon for this generation of bodies and gear up for the next round. Of course if they mess up the next round... ;-p - saeba
The article wonders if the D700 is a masterstroke or misguided because it will cannibalize the D3. I vote masterstroke. You don't worry about cannibalization if you're trying to make yourself relevant again, especially when the real money is in expensive add-ons (lenses, flashes, etc). - Stanton Champion
"1. WALL-E records audio from his favorite movie, XXXXXXXXXXX, putting in onto his own digital recorder (bypassing the macrovision DRM on the tape). A COPYRIGHT CRIME UNDER C-61
2. WALL-E archives the audio, he doesn’t merely time-shift it. He listens repeatedly! A COPYRIGHT CRIME UNDER C-61
3. WALL-E shares his DRM-broken music with his friend, another robot named XXXXX. A COPYRIGHT CRIME UNDER C-61" - Benjamin Golub via Bookmarklet
I knew there was a reason I liked that little guy! - Nathan Henderson
actually, since it's hundreds of years later all of that stuff would be in the public domain :-) - mathew ingram
If history is any guide, Disney's copyrights will never expire. - Kevin Fox
+1 for Kevin. They don't call it the Mickey Mouse Protection Act for nothing. - Cyndy
Since Disney owns Wall•E and Wall•E is violating Disney's copyrights (which never expire as Kevin points out), I'm hoping Disney would end up in some sort of lawsuit infinite loop and implode, leaving Pixar to make good movies. - Scott Johnston
As long as Pixar continues to produce hits, Disney will leave Pixar alone. Even better, Pixar's influence will be felt stronger in Burbank and animation will improve there too. BOLT! this fall is the first to have Pixar's Story Method imposed upon it. Look for much better results than recent Disney animation. - John Frost
Someone censor that movie before it becomes a threat to the MPAA et al!!!! - Roberto Bonini
Wouldn't some sort of reverse Statute of Limitations apply since he doesn't do any of this until the year 2815? - Ken Sheppardson
best wishes for you, your book is great - you'll have a blast spending morte time with your kids - Maggie Longshore via twhirl
Congratulations on your decision and best of luck. Enjoy your improved work/life balance! - Adam Sherk
Good luck in your career! You were very informative at the Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008. I enjoyed your presentation at the Social Media Strategy workshop - Glenn Batuyong via twhirl
Best of luck! I liked that post about reinventing your job every 18 months. - Jeff Woelker
Thanks everyone for all of the good wishes. I'll be blogging again soon and will let everyone know when and where I re-surface. - Charlene Li
Charlene, best of luck to you and your family. We will all miss your insights and analyses. - warren sukernek via twhirl
Good luck, and thanks for being so public about wanting to strike a balance between work & family. Working parents of both genders will be cheering you on! - Dylan Tweney
Best of luck, Charlene. You're leaving big shoes to fill. I look forward to reading you again soon. - Christian Anderson
Congratulations on your decision, and best of luck! - Steve Bauer
good luck with your future endeavors! looking forward to more of your social technologies insights online. - ~C4Chaos
Charlene, sounds like an enlightened and well considered choice. Congrats. Let us know if we can do anything to support your next-next steps. Be Great. Cheers! silva - mark silva
And let me guess, by the time you made it through security, your flight had fully boarded and you were running to the gate with your shoes in your hands? - Stanton Champion
"As has widely been reported around the net, today marks the introduction of the new Nikon D700. In my eyes, this release pretty much seals the deal that Nikon is back in the game and in a huge way. More to the point, the domination that Canon has enjoyed since 2000 in the mid to high-end digital SLR market is well and truly over. To be sure, Canon isn’t out of the game yet and no obituaries need to be written. But, a big and fundamental change has happened." - Jason Chen via Bookmarklet
Canon must wow people this year or else they're going to face a serious brain drain of customers. I'm not even sure they're doing that well in the low-end consumer market, like the article suggests. People I see with SLRs are 2 to 1 carrying Nikons. - Stanton Champion
Yup, I'm seeing this trend too. Amazing turnaround, I'd love to know how they got it done. I wish Microsoft would learn from Nikon. They are facing similar challenges. - Robert Scoble
If the D700 has similar low light capability (to D3) it will be significant -- but it is still going to be priced way above the 5D according to most reports (and a new 5D is due out soon). I think some waiting is still in order to declare that Nikon has a winner here - Brian Sullivan
Of course the D700 is priced way above what the 5D costs now. The 5D cost $3k too when it first came out and is now 3 years old. The D700 will still be a great camera no matter what Canon does with the 5D successor. And that 5D successor better be all that and then some if Canon expects to slot it in at the same price point. - saeba
It seems as though the torch has been passed, and Canon is now the follower after many years as leader. I hope this is not the case, and Canon release some announcement of new products soon to counter what will inevitably be a jump in the prosumer market from Canon to Nikon. Since my trusty old Nikon F2 kit was stolen 7 years ago, I've been without SLR. Recently I've overcome my disgust from this event, and want to dive back in. Canon's superiority in CMOS and image quality makes me lean in this direction (for 5D successor), but if no announcement comes by September and Photokina, Nikon will be firmly established as today's DSLR leader, and my choice will have been made. - Jody Carbone
As a 5D owner, I have to admit that I'm intrigued by the D700. My only hesitation with moving to Nikon would be what seems to be a dearth of prime lenses on par with Canon's L's. But I don't know the Nikkor line-up or terminology that well, so I could be mistaken. - Jason Chen
Heresy! Who will represent the Canon Nation on TWIP? ;-) - Jeremy Brooks
Hell, if I could afford to just go out and drop cash on a nice full frame camera and new matching lenses, there would be little guilt involved in brand jumping too. - jerry
@Taylor he answers the "why" question in the post... - Aaron B. Hockley
He found the perfect combo for what he shoots: D3 + 200-400. Not a bad reason. - saeba
Yes, the post makes sense. There's really not a wrong choice -- Canon and Nikon both make great gear. Just have to find what works best for you. - Jeremy Brooks
Canon really seems like they've ignored their customers. There's some Canon gear I need, but I almost want to hold off buying and wait and see. If Nikon manages to leapfrog Canon and stay ahead, the less I have to sell to switch the better. - Stanton Champion
Not having read the report, my initial reaction to the headline based on my experience is that it is probably the outreach strategy, if that headline is true. - John Cass via Alert Thingy
My thought is that many corporate blogs push their agenda, without considering the readers first. - Jeremiah Owyang
before Corporations blog, they need to understand (a) the clue Train Manifesto and (b) the market is luaghing, at them !! - Peter Dawson
The power of social media isn't so much in giving the leadership an online megaphone, but to economically service niche parts of a company's business. If a blog doesn't generate some arbitrary number of comments... WHO CARES!?! If the blog is about an arcane technical topic... WHO CARES!?! Does it reach the right people? Does it get the job done? - Phil Gomes
I'm sure they're unimaginative, but are they really failures? The blogs may be dull and provide little new information, but at least corporations are blogging. Isn't that a step in the right direction? - Brent Newhall
Nice to have an employer which gives me pretty complete access to Forrester material. Mmmm, feel the learning :-D - Justin Guy Souter via twhirl
I read a reasonably good article somewhere that said the problem is that instead of finding the internal blog champions, companies push blogs out through their same constrained traditional marketing and communications channels. Also, I liked the Greg the Architect video, even if it is viral marketing for TIBCO. - Richard Akerman
agree w/ richard that the companies that do blogging via their traditional marketing/communications group don't normally do a very good job of it - mike "glemak" dunn
now for my reaction to this article - ben worthen of wsj did a terrible job on this one, title is linkbaiting, the report he references and that makes up most of the content is from forrester and is related to b2b companies only - i'm sure its a valid report based on a valid study but how ben could then extrapolate this into all corp blogs (including b2c companies) is beyond my comprehension - do journalism much ben? boy i wish i could get back the 3 minutes it took me to read his fluff piece and write this - mike "glemak" dunn
I've been foloowing EMC's efforts at enterprise 2.0, as blogged by Chuck Hollis, VP Tech Alliances. He gives great detail about how they're doing it. In this blog post, he talks about grooming internal employees as bloggers, and graduating them to interact externally. Also some very good thoughts about corporate blogs. http://chucksblog.typepad.com/... - Hutch Carpenter
What's really ironic is that Forrester puts itself out as THE social media analyst firm. Which begs the question: WTF are they doing? - Dennis Howlett via twhirl
hutch & richard - those are two good links to thoughtful well done posts/articles on corp blogging - hope ben finds this thread so that maybe next thing he does for wsj is more like those (thanks brian btw) - mike "glemak" dunn
For me it's "Marked as Read", but beyond that... once you hide an individual post, you have access to the best hidden feature of FF: the "See options for hiding other items like this" link. Once you hide an item you can hide all the posts from that user on a particular service, hide them unless they have comments... plus a bunch of other context sensitive options. Very, very, very handy. - Ken Sheppardson
What do you want to hide? Just do not read it if you are not interested. - Igor The Troll
fbrunel: we often hide redundant stuff, or whole services. I, myself don't use it that much actually, but many people can't use FriendFeed without it - directeur via NoiseRiver
Igor: it's not about "censoring". It's more about managing your reading page :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Ah, hiding is not available from the iPhone version. - fbrunel
Honestly I think it is a good experience for users to see he whole picture. But I understand what you mean especially if you are new. - Igor The Troll
Igor: Well it's a choice... noone has the same time availability, nerves, mood as you and me :) I believe, like you surely do, that the user's experience should the center of any service or UI - directeur via NoiseRiver
That's a big FAIL. I would've expected hides to apply to all output generated for a user stream. - Dewald Pretorius
Nope. hiding's not available anywhere but on the FF site. That's the point of directeur's post. :-) - Ken Sheppardson
do you mean the ability to hide without going to friendfeed? because the api already has a "hidden" field for each entry, though I haven't verified if it works. - klecu
Kevin: I'm already using that field in NoiseRiver to hide the already hidden entries. The problem now is to be able to hide in the client app (NoiseRiver, FFToGO...) - directeur via NoiseRiver
here, here, would love to see hide in FFToGo. - Thomas Hawk
Thomas, Thomas :) Follow the link and add your voice please ;-) - directeur via NoiseRiver
added it in the link as well! Seriously. Hide is such an important feature. It sucks not having it in the API. Why don't they have this in the API by the way? What's the logic or reasoning? - Thomas Hawk
Thanks Thomas! You're right! They should at least add the very basic "hide" like Ben said. - directeur via NoiseRiver
No problem, I did it for myself. I was frustrated at not being able to find rooms. :) I hoped to leverage the power of the crowds to build this bad boy - I'm sure that eventually FriendFeed will do something to make this obsolete, but for at least a short while it could be good. :) - felix
Thanks everyone! :) It's filled up a good bit in the couple hours it's been public! Charlie, I'm going to look into sub-directories, but want to let it fill up more to see how any sort of sub division ought to look. (and thanks J, for the link to the original! :) - felix
Thank you. I will add the couple that I created in. - Mathew A. Koeneker
what if you added a routine to scrape the google search for rooms to prepopulate the list of rooms and then let users categorize them? - Kenneth LeFebvre via fftogo
I added most of the rooms I know about. A few errors. Also, I can't change my mind and move a room to a different category. Maybe some rooms do fit in more than one category too. - Morton Fox
oh, and expose a simple api so someone can make a grease monkey script to add to your directory while creating the room! - Kenneth LeFebvre via fftogo
I wonder why this isn't something friendfeed has. They should rip off the irc entirely and allow both public and secret rooms exactly like the irc. - Doug Brooks
Morton, I didn't make any public admin interface because there's no backup of the BigTable on App Engine and I worried about someone coming in and messing around. So for now, it's just me - if you have things shoot me an IM or so. :) - felix
Kenneth - hm.. wonder if anyone'd care to greasemonkey that, but it's super easy for me to build, so I'll throw something together for next rev. - felix
We did move a few things around, but nothing temporary - the event inspired us to optimize a few things we had been meaning to optimize anyway. - Bret Taylor
no rebates - sounds like that's the price - Frederic
If only the service wasn't twice as much as what I pay for exactly the same thing. Sprint gives me 3G, unlimited data, unlimited text for $30 / month. The only thing that sucks is I'm using Windows Mobile and not an iPhone :( - Benjamin Golub
super cool domain name... me want me.com :) - AJ Batac
My poorly conveyed point there was this: why is there an ovation for a drag and drop web app? Big deal, anyone heard of basecamp, last.fm, a.n.other 2.0? - Gez
me.com --> "The site you are trying to reach has moved. " - Martin Añazco
But it does work well for identifying hot topics. One option is to attach comments to an item and use the comments as a timeline. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Yah, we should fix this, especially for events like this. - Bret Taylor
Plurk is frustrating if you are following more than a few dozen ppl. - Rafe Needleman
Bret, when is FF getting Plurk support? - Rafe Needleman
I actually had success just following the main "Friends" feed because you catch all the new posts there, and it's close to a "newest first" at least. I still don't get Plurk. - Jesse Stay
Useful advice as I try to make FF my new Twitter. There's lots to understand about the FF interface. Anyone else have any "secret" tips/? - Leo Laporte
I can't seem to find it, but there's a Windows Twitter to FriendFeed converter script that will send invites to all your Twitter friends to subscribe to your FriendFeed. - Jesse Stay via twhirl
Jesse: Not sure about the script you're referring to but this script - http://internetducttape.com/20... - will add your Twitter friends to FF. I've been meaning to run it but haven't yet. I'll do it tonight and report back. - Leo Laporte
That's cool Bwana - for iPhone users - anyone have a Blackberry FF client? - Leo Laporte
Leo, here's another handy Greasemonkey script for filtering your FF stream by service http://snurl.com/2en81 e.g. view only Flickr, view only Tumblr, etc. - Mike Doeff
@Leo, http://fftogo.com is a decent friendfeed blackberry client. I do not use it much but it is way better anything else I have seen. - Rob Diana
Leo: fftogo works well on the blackberry (so I've heard) but you need to change your font size in fftogo (scroll to the bottom and click on settings). I'm the developer for fftogo so if you want any improvements I'm your man. - Benjamin Golub via fftogo
So it does, Benjamin - but I hate going to the BB browser. What font size works best? Trying 9 right now. - Leo Laporte
I'm not sure since I don't have a BB but I've heard that the default (which works great on my Moto Q9c) is way too big on the BB. - Benjamin Golub
@bgolub thanks for implementing font size :) - Alex Gawley
Just joining FF, it's different but it does seem nice and simple =) - John Tyra
Lots of folks who have not used the "hide" feature have not seen the options available. I love the g-monkey script tabs, but hey -- why not also try what's already here. BTW, here's Duncan Riley's great index of FF tabs: http://userscripts.org/users/5... - Dan Covington
This post has helped me to understand FriendFeed better than anything else I've read. Thanks. - Larry Huffman
Good, common-sensical ways to be relevant and get the most from FriendFeed - Ron Emrick via Alert Thingy
Font size change helps on BB Pearl. Tks! - Tom via fftogo
“It's kind of BS how people pick on Scoble so much, he works really hard and carves out the adoption path for many of us. When you look pass the 'noise' you'll see he's sorting out the crap from the rough nuggets.”
I think he takes the crap people dish at him really well. Scobez is one of my heroes. That said, it's kind of funny some of the stuff that gets said about him. I think he opens himself to a lot of it on purpose. It keeps people talking about him. ;) - Tad Donaghe
He's just so damn likable, and he doesn't "hit back" so he makes himself an easy target. I'd love to see anyone else try to do what he does, the man works hard (but prob needs to spend more time with family) - Jeremiah Owyang
I think you played it cool. Cool post and you didn't pull an Arrington. In other words, you did a good job toning down the ego and seeing it's a community issue rather than a Scoble issue :-) Even if that IS what Twitter meant. - Andrew Dobrow
"I’ve sent 3,598 tweets (Twitter messages) — Scoble has sent 12,318. This is clearly putting a strain on the service."
That's the equivilent of over THREE heavy users then. Scoble is clearly abusing Twitter's stable system. - Chris Nixon
I'm wondering will Google also say sometimes that You got our servers down because you send 2000 emails everyday.. where our system is built to hold load of just 30 emails everyday!! - Jigar Mehta via bTT
Alex: I'll calm down when Twitter stops blaming its users and fixes its service. Thanks. - Robert Scoble
FriendFeed is just built better. It has to do the same thing as Twitter, send out messages/information (longer than 140 chars I might add) from one users to 12,000+ followers, etc. FriendFeed isn't having issues. Yes, FF isn't as big as Twitter yet, but I have the feeling the Ex-Google engineers here at FF know what the hell they're doing more. - Ben Parr
Robert, this time you couldn't be more wrong. Read the post carefully once again . Twitter is simply explaining how things can go wrong from time to time - certainly not blaming you. - Ron Emrick
We just have to face the fact, Twitter has hit the limit of scalability now.. They need an intelligent consultant to help them resolve their issues! Anybody, help!! - Jigar Mehta via bTT
Ron, here's what Alex Payne said: "The events that hit our system the hardest are generally when “popular” users - that is, users with large numbers of followers and people they’re following - perform a number of actions in rapid succession." THAT IS BLAMING. And, since I'm the only one who has 20,000+ followers and behaves like that, they are being very specific in their blame. - Robert Scoble
Twitter just leveled down... bad form Twitter, bad form. - Bwana McCall
They're not blaming you. They are blaming themselves for being unable to cope with you and other superusers. - Jamie
@Ron The point is that the system was designed incorrectly. Either you build it to scale for someone to have 20,000 mutual contacts or you limit the number of contacts. Or you limit the eleventy billion "graph a pretty picture of your Tweets" apps that have access to your API. It is NEVER the fault of any action done by your users unless they are running a DDOS against you, and at that point, they cease being users anyway. And OMG, did I just write a rant defending Robert Scoble? I do believe I did. - Cyndy
That's about as plain as you get. They're saying they can lighten the load by limiting power users in a nutshell. Sigh. - Bwana McCall
Jamie: well, then they can come here and say that and apologize for causing my name to be at the top of TechMeme right now. -
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