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Steve Rubel
For those who asked yes today is my birthday - the big 4-0! I celebrated by going to the dentist, lunch and later a biz trip to Richmond.
Have a great birthday, youngster. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
the dentist? Wow! Have a great one, Steve. - Valeria Maltoni
Happy 4-0. I think I can still recall that one, vaguely :) - Patrick Jordan
@Valeria - yes and what she found was not good! - Steve Rubel from email
Have a great day .. ugh... young man - Charlie Anzman
Happy birthday, Steve! - Thierry R. Andriamirado
Many many happy returns of the day Steve! Here's to many more years of your awesomeness. - Karthick
Happy Birthday, Steve! :-D - Kol Tregaskes
Congrats, Steve. You look much younger in the profile picture! ;) - Jordi Soler
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Goosh is a Cool Command-Line Interface for Google - http://www.steverubel.com/goosh-i...
Goosh is a Cool Command-Line Interface for Google
Looks interesting. Also looks unnecessary. - Akiva Moskovitz
Much easier to go to one spot to conduct searches and get back results. - Steve Rubel from email
Looks interesting. Would be more useful if it's available on the Linux shell - not entirely sure how it's useful on the web though? - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
ok i take it back. perhaps useful on mobile. possibly actually good for accessibility access. interesting. It's always interesting to see #innovation with text-only UI. But seriously is there a Linux shell equivalent? Sometimes I use lynx to serve on my netbook and I wish that I have a better alternative. - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Steve, but if it's just a tab in your browser, how is that different from having a tab pointing to google.com? Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of text-based interfaces. I'm just wondering the benefit here other than the cool/nostalgia/geek factor of it being text-based. - Akiva Moskovitz
Because you can conduct any search right from it. Try B then your name - Steve Rubel from email
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinteresting. - Akiva Moskovitz
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"Three Reasons You Need to Be on FriendFeed *Now*" - http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2009...
"Three Reasons You Need to Be on FriendFeed *Now*"
Actually, I'm getting tired of Friendfeed. Most discussion is vapid, banal and inconsequential. IOW, a waste of time. - Dawn
I love the idea of a "Personal Content Database". I always thought of FriendFeed as an aggregation site, but it sounds better as a personal content database. - Matthew Lang
Me too Matthew. I use it that way to some degree. - Steve Rubel from email
Is there a way to get a friend feed onto a personal web site? - Peter Fletcher
Thanks for posting this Steve. And Dawn, are you deliberately ironic? Regardless, this post is for those who may not have the time to engage actively here, but will still benefit from being part of the service. - Hutch Carpenter
Thanks Brian. - Peter Fletcher
Nice work but a lil late on this BNO - sofarsoShawn
Peter, you can also embed an individual thread on your site by copying the code from the "Share" link - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Oh, Dawn, that's rich cause I blocked you for bringing vapid, banal, and inconsequential stuff to friendfeed a while back. All you have to do is look at all the items from the Google I/O conference to see just how wrong you are: http://is.gd/HaUQ - Robert Scoble
"Personal Content Database" is quite apt (especially if we could have our service icons back) - When working in twitter and waiting for twitter's page to refresh a new post, it is quicker to jump to FriendFeed, because the post is there instantly. - Chris Loft
@rahsheen thanks for the tip. - Peter Fletcher
BS, Robert. You blocked me because I'm not one of your sycophants but actually challenge your assumptions, motivations and actions. Like when I said you were neglecting your blog, you retaliated against me, but just two weeks later, Arrington said the same thing and you took that seriously. But I'm just a female, right Robert?...somebody you keep calling stupid, even though I'm sure my... more... - Dawn
Amen to that! - Calvin Ayre
Dawn, I think I love you. - cecily
Dawn: you don't even have a clue about why I blocked you. It's cause you were arguing religion and politics and had no clue who Ralph Reed was and then you followed it up with the lamest posts on global warming I've seen that it made me wonder why I was arguing with someone so clueless (and I forget there were a few other things you were arguing about). So much for that high grade point average. By the way, I don't remember Mike Arrington ever talking about that stuff. - Robert Scoble
BTW: I unblocked her for some reason, I still don't know why. Oh, yeah, my brother stuck up for her and so far I've seen just the lamest additions to the community, like this one here. If friendfeed's discussion is vapid, banal, and inconsequential IT IS OUR FAULT. So, Dawn, this one is on you. Good riddens, I say. - Robert Scoble
Ahh, community. - τorƍue
#4 Bacon - sofarsoShawn
Yeah, right, Robert. I'm so lame that Louis Gray announced both on his blog and on FF that I'm a great person to follow. And you're comment about Ralph Reed just once again shows your bigotry against Christians, lumping us all in one basket - that far right fundamentalist basket that you once belonged to and now despise. I never did belong to it. I'm Catholic, not "born again." I've had... more... - Dawn
Btw, two people have DM'd me that Scoble is best ignored. I can't do that. Being the target of repeated and consistent defamation by Robert Scoble isn't the same as Joe Blow FFer calling you an idiot. Robert's words carry a lot of weight in the tech world. I've asked Robert privately and politely to back off and as you can see, he's refused to do that. I not only have the right to defend myself, but I have a duty to my present and future investors and to my future employees. - Dawn
FriendFeed's usefullness to me would increase 100% if I could automatically filter out every post with "friendfeed" in the title. That way I could get rid of the constant yapping about how great it is, and actually use it usefully. - Ian Betteridge
Bump for the good times. - Mark Krynsky
This is a post from last may! The situation has totally changed since then - DC Crowley
"even though I'm sure my IQ is higher than yours. Were you valedictorian of your high school? Or graduate magna cum laude? Did you get a graduate degree with honors" wow that means even i don't qualify :( - ffcode
I agree, I think we should try to save Friendfeed. - Hunt from iPhone
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Last night at dinner I heard some stats on blogging direct from Google that blew my mind - 290,000 words are published every minute.
that IS mind-blowing. we're nothing if not prolific! - B.L. Ochman
Direct from google...meaning Blogger? - Garin Kilpatrick
Yes Garin - Steve Rubel from email
should have seen the numbers changing at some site Scoble mentioned about twitter they had a live counter - ffcode
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Posterous Catches Friendfeed - http://www.steverubel.com/postero...
This should be a controversial post here, but it's correct. I've seen this flow of traffic away from FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble
Why should you abandon FriendFeed just because they were acquired? The features are still the same, the friends are the same. It's certainly doing a disservice to the FF team as they work on a FB integration. If all leave FF due to new owners, then there's nothing left to integrate. I'm staying until they pull the plug (but frankly not sure if I want to join FB). - Nils Sandin
I think its true, quite a few people are posting less then they used to and some have stopped posting here all together. But I think that says more about the users than it does the service they have all but abandoned. If the development team behind FF had some how managed to keep the sale to Facebook a secret, most of those people would probably still be here. - J. Abdul-Qahhar
Nils: because I invest my time on systems that WILL BE not that "ARE." The FriendFeed team has already been moved to other projects, so we won't be seeing new features. I like FriendFeed and will continue to come here, but I am spending my time on systems that are getting active development and that will be improved in the future. Twitter, for instance, has 75 people working on it. Facebook? 200 engineers and 1000 employees. But, seriously, I go where the geeks go and they are here less and less. - Robert Scoble
Robert so where are you now? Where do you spent your time? Where are the geeks now? - Roldano De Persio of FF
Roldano: I'm here and on Twitter, mostly. But the geeks have spread their usage out, and it's hard to see any one place they are coalescing. Facebook usage is definitely higher, so are things like Posterou s. But Twitter seems to be where the kinds of people I like to talk with are hanging out. - Robert Scoble
Well I'm not moving until FF moves. It's a shame people have left or use it less. :-( - Kol Tregaskes
wow, interesting. I like Posterous, but can't see it as a replacement for FF - If anything I want to use FF more! - Alistair (alpinefolk)
Agree. I'll only move if I have to. What's changed after the FB buy-out? Nothing so far. Sure, we're not going to get any new features but I'm quite happy with what FF provides. More importantly the community is still here, all my new friends. If they ALL move somewhere else then I'll go there but they all seem to be sticking around thankfully! If the geeks are leaving then that leaves us normals then, right? :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Twitter is no alternative to FF. There are some pretenders but they are no where near FF atm. - Kol Tregaskes
FriendFeed and Posterous are totally complementary. Twitter and FF less so. - Bruce Lewis
The growth of Posterous is most likely due to the fact that it sets itself up as a hub "pushes" content out to other services (bringing traffic back), while Friendfeed essentially pulls info in and has to build its own internal traffic (I know it can post content but most don't seem to). - That said, Friendfeed has the best social aspect of any service that I use. - Alistair (alpinefolk)
Alistair, that's the best summary I have heard yet. - Steve Rubel from email
Posterous is a fabulous content blaster :) whereas FF is a fabulous content aggregator! - Susan Beebe
One can argue that FF built it's traffic on aggregation of other traffic. It pulls in feeds of content on other services, while very minimally introducing new, interesting content to the web. Whereas Posterous introduces new, rich, interesting content by making it easier than ever to post. Autopost actually *reduces* how much traffic comes back to Posterous, because we allow you to post to other places. (this is just speculation. There are two sides to this game, and Posterous focuses on NEW content) - Sachin Agarwal
Robert, how is this post controversial? - Holden Page
And Robert, you don't seem to be the leader in tech anymore. By your comments above, you seem to be simply a follower. A bit depressing I must say - Holden Page
Posterous and FF go perfectly together for me. I also use Google Reader, though mainly to share (I haven't given or gotten many comments there). As for Twitter (my main addiction, even more than coffee), FF has entirely replaced bit.ly for me, for one thing. I use all four together. - Dennis Jernberg
I have to agree with Susan Beebe: I'm not sure how one could consider FF and posterous to be direct competitors, where one could fully replace the other. FF solves the problem of using the best tool for the job (blogs for writing, photo sharing sites for photos, etc) and aggregating everything into one place. Posterous solves the problem of updating different sites with the same content. Really, posterous's killer feature is the email-to-post functionality without having an account. - Andy Bakun
@Sachin, does duplicate posting of content penalize you on Google? I have heard that it can for blogs, say. - Steve Rubel from email
posterous is great but still it is only a blog with features of one mail ID for post by mail...and have followers etc...but still it is only a blog...though with its features it might be among the top blogging platforms... - ffcode
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Re: Why Apple & Google Win - and Your Company Doesn't - http://www.scottmonty.com/2009...
"This was true until Google Wave. Still remains true for Apple." - Steve Rubel
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Forbes.com Essay: A Walk Into Google Wave - http://www.steverubel.com/forbesc...
Posted via web from The Steve Rubel Lifestream - Steve Rubel from Posterous
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@frizzellm Hi Marion. I think Google Wave is a collaboration tool. Forbes has a column I wrote with more coming. #comm2337
hey steve, just pass an invitation to all of us :)) - Massimo MaxKava Cavazzini
They're gone! - Steve Rubel from email
i know, just joking :D - Massimo MaxKava Cavazzini
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Re: Live from Virgin America #24 (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
"Dave, so sorry for your loss. Please let me know if I can be of assistance." - Steve Rubel
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I was on Canadian TV today talking about blogging, Twitter and lifestreaming http://watch.bnn.ca/#clip21...
I liked what YOU had to say - Joan Vinall-Cox
i really need to work on all of those things, u heard of Blastoff yet? - Maria Boggiano
@Maria, no what is it? - Steve Rubel from email
nice job Steve - Zee.
www.my.blastoffnetwork.com/mariacboggiano24 You NEED TO SEE THIS ASAP http://bit.ly/XO8f5 - Maria Boggiano
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The more I use Evernote, the more I think it's one of the most innovative and underrated apps ever. More to come in a post.
agreed! - masstrovato from fftogo
I have been using Evernote since it's inception and it is still a must-have app on my desktop. - BLOGBloke
Love Evernote's syncing features. Still wished it looked and behaved more like Google Notebook. - mrshl
Agree! Looking forward to your post. - Herb Hernandez
have any of you guys running windows seen the recent beta release of evernote? I've never been a fan of the windows UI so I'm really stoked to play around with it more. http://blog.evernote.com/2009... - metalerik
I love Evernote! - Jesse Stay
evernote is awesome, i'm starting to use it a lot more...i just wish they'd add/change some features to the desktop app. - Scott
still think its not going to survive? - Zee.
@Zee. Nope. I am a total convert. I came around and have been spending time wih their team too. - Steve Rubel from email
Very true. I like evernote. - Abi
Great app! Having an iPhone now makes it even more usable. Love it. - Tibor Holoda from iPhone
True. I use it as contacts, apart from guy Kawasaki's 14 uses. - Nitin Nanivadekar
I pretty much mention Evernote to everyone I know. wonderful app that keeps getting better. - jbrotherlove
welcome to my world :) evernote rocks - tevfik bülent öngün
I think Evernote has one of the greatest business models I have ever seen. - Kevin Traver
I just wish the app wasn't so clunky...especially when dealing with massive notebooks. - Matt Snoulten
Does anyone use Evernote for tracking todo's? - Steve Rubel from email
Steve, I use it for to-do's - Abi
@Abi, on the iPhone too? In one notebook, how? - Steve Rubel from email
I use evernote desktop client (windows) with syncing to my online account. Dont have an iphone . - Abi
Evernote 3.5 beta has a new screen. Earlier it was so difficult to navigate. - Nitin Nanivadekar
I use evernote's clipper to even capture screenshots. Not just copying to evernote but also Copy images to clipboard and use it across various other applications (email,presentations,documents etc). Helps a great deal in my job. - Abi
I wish there was an apps for android... - fwed
Tracking To-Do's is not effective on Evernote because it does not have alarm or a future driven trigger. - Nitin Nanivadekar
What do you use Evernote for? Tracking todos? Lists? - David Berrebi from iPhone
Evernote USED to be awesome. It is just OK now. They jumped the shark with 3.0 - George Gray
Greg, how did Evernote "jump the shark" with 3.0? - jbrotherlove
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Debate: Can You Still Build a Profitable Blog? - http://www.steverubel.com/debate-...
Debate: Can You Still Build a Profitable Blog?
one thing that i wanted to ask, why do you have your blog on posterous, why not wordpress.com/wordpress install or even on blogspot? i mean what is the advantage? what is extra? - testbeta
This is explained here @testbeta - http://www.micropersuasion.com/2009... - Steve Rubel from email
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Some people can't see the icon, eg -> ☺. It's Unicode so I thought it would work everywhere. Any experts? Some are just seeing a square.
Are we talking about here on Friendfeed, on Twitter or on another specific Web site? Is the charset clearly defined in the code of the page? - Curtiss Grymala
Steve, actually the symbol (as a Unicode code point) must be a glyph in the user's font. Incorrect symbol visualization may not always be an enconding issue, but also (simply) the fact that the used font does not have that symbol :) (I don't know if there is some sort of a fallback strategy, so to speak) - Claudio Cicali ♋
@Claudio thanks much. - S - Steve Rubel from email
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A strong case for storing things in plain text format. This is something I have started to do more of because it's so portable http://b ...
where is the link steve? - luca de fino
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I am making Facebook Light my default. Love it.
Me too - very clean. - Scott Loftesness
is it some sort of theme? cleaner and simpler themes are always the best - testbeta
Why? Just curious ;-) - Brad Williamson
Elgan sums it up nicely http://www.computerworld.com/s... - Steve Rubel from email
is there a way to see it even if it's not enabled for you? - Zio Bonino
I'm sorry but Facebook lite hasnt news feed in real time. - Kaspo
Screenshot/link? ^^ - James Kuypers
@James and @Zio - do you guys need access? I have invites. - Steve Rubel from email
I'd love to try it. my email is eiochemipensavo at gmail dot com (thank you in advance) - Zio Bonino
Facebook lite doesnt need invite. http://lite.facebook.com/ - Kaspo
kaspo: thank you, it's enabled only to some people in the states. - Zio Bonino from IM
@Zio Bonino. It's enable only for english version. - Kaspo
whoa, thanks, it DOES WORK :) - Zio Bonino from IM
it looks way better! - paolaki
it's even usable, methinks :) - Zio Bonino
I didn't think much of it. It's still Facebook. :-( - Kol Tregaskes
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About time! - Bryan Lee
Still, I prefer clean sheet. - Nyan Min
@Nyan - me too - for now. - Steve Rubel from email
clean sheet? - Bryan Lee
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In Orlando today on business then Miami. I heart Florida.
Florida is awesome, I'm from Tampa! You should check it out if you've never been. - Tomy Thomson
@Tomy I have. - Steve Rubel from email
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Apple event today = fail. The hype expectations have finally caught up with them.
If you were expecting the Beatles, then yes, it was FAIL. But the new iTunes that lets you reorganize your iPhone is absolutely full of WIN! - Joey Gibson
Meet my expectations. - ChiliMac
(rolls eyes) This happens every single event and every single keynote. You have some delighted and many others who buzzed themselves up. The smarter thing to do is be neutral and see what shows up. - Louis Gray
Totally agree: people talking about Tablets, about an online version of iTunes "à la Spotify"... and what do we get? An iPod Nano with a camera? - Jordi Soler
SCIENCE. - Josh Haley from iPhone
Obviously some cool stuff, but this is the first iPod announcement I haven't thought "Oooh, I really want get me one of these." - Jared B. Luther
The speculation about an Apple tablet came from an analyst who admitted it was just speculation. But that was enough for lot of people to bank on it as if it were a fact. If Apple had to deny every incorrect rumor, it'd have to hire its own PR agency just for that. Still, I don't think the event was a fail because it was pretty huge that Jobs ran the show himself. - Ed Moltzen
Yeah, Steve's recovery was the best part. But you have to admit there was so much buzz for this one that one can't help but feel disappointed. It feels as if the "Apple era" is starting to fade... - Jordi Soler
Expectations are by definition personal. If yours were low, this event exceeded them. If yours were high, this event was underwhelming. Whose fault is it if the hype is high? Apple's? I don't think so. I'm impressed with the number of things they announced today. - Stephen Mack
whetes my portable reality distortion field?! - thegeniusfiles
The headline from the press release for the event should be APPLE SHIPS JOBS 2.0 - Steve Rubel from email
*It feels as if the "Apple era" is starting to fade... * - hahaha.. love that.. - Andy Connell
I didn't think it was a fail. I thought it was pretty solid. Sure the only thing I was excited about was iTunes, but that is only because I'm not getting another iPod since I have an iPhone. But, I can see the things that people would be excited for. - Mathew™ one of a kind
Agreed. One of the biggest Apple fails ever. WTF were they thinking putting a cam on the nano and not the touch? Does skinny steve know how many apps in the app store make use of a camera? - Tomy Thomson
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Like how gdgt is covering the event in stream form http://live.gdgt.com/2009...
Sweet - Steve Rubel from email
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Conversation of the Day: Facebook is the New Address Book - http://www.steverubel.com/convers...
Conversation of the Day: Facebook is the New Address Book
does the gmail sync with the iPhone not work for you? - metalerik
metalerik: I have thousands of contacts in Gmail. They go out of date at a pretty rapid rate. For some reason people keep their Facebook contacts up to date. - Robert Scoble
oh ok, makes sense especially at those numbers. Plus, my friends don't have access to my gmail contacts to keep their info up to date. That circles back to mixing different kinds of friends on one service. - metalerik
Facebook is a great addition to any address book, but not a replacement. Once everyone has facebook it will replace the address book. Almost everyone has a phone number, but tens of millions of people are still without facebook in North America alone. I admit this is rapidly changing as Facebooks user base continues to rise. - Garin Kilpatrick
The problem is Facebook is currently a closed Network so you can not searh it's content from Google so not really a good address book if you ask me. - Rob Cairns
Rob, it's an address book for your friends, not the white/yellow pages. - Andre P. Siregar
Palm thought of this when they developed Synergy for WebOS. This was a big advantage over other mobile OS. Then Facebook developed the 3.0 app for iPhone while not committing to enhance their app on WebOS (http://www.palminfocenter.com/news...). No more advantage for WebOS - Andre P. Siregar
I'm in 100% agreement with this. I use a Blackberry, but feel the same way. People keep their info up to date on Facebook for the most part and it sync's to my phone. So do events and birthdays. LOVE it. - frank barry
I do agree with your proposal but only for personal (F&F) use. Most of my corporate contacts are 40+ age and they're still getting used to the Facebook stuff (I'm living down south Equator Line, and it's more likely a cab driver had a Facebook account that a senior o C level manager -with the exception of people working in IT departments of course-). Hopefully they'll update their phones frequently too so that I won't have to track them down all the time. - Marco ILLESCAS
I agree with Scoble that Gmail is really missing the boat here. - Steve Rubel
Robert Scoble: If you set up the Google Sync on the iPhone as described here: http://www.google.com/mobile... then only the contacts in your "My Contacts" on the contacts list in GMail gets synced. It does take a little bit of initial setup to work well, but after you get it set up, it works brilliantly. When I sync my Facebook to my iPhone, the photos and such that I put on the phone then get auto-synced back to GMail as well via the Google Sync. Very clever. - Otto
Well, as otto just said, I'm using Google Sync for iPhone. Any changes i make are instantly synced back to Google. Its also easaier to manage and merge contacts from Google's interface and sync them back to the iPhone. More groups would be a nice addition ( instead of having to search for contacts not in the synced group). - Roberto Bonini
Syncing groups would be a *fantastic* addition to Google Sync. The iPhone supports contact groups natively, it just doesn't offer any interface to put contacts into groups by default (you can find apps that will do this in the app store.. ABContacts Lite comes to mind). - Otto
Oh, one more thing that's very cool about Google Sync: It'll sync your Google Calendars to the calendar app on the iPhone. You can choose which calendars to sync, and Google Contacts recently added a birthday/anniversary feature, making an automatic calendar out of your contact's birthdays and such. That syncs to the iPhone as well. - Otto
Nope. I can say definitively that Facebook will never be my address book, nor will any other online service. I may have bits and pieces on various networks, but to hold the master/superset, I trust only native access on a device I own and control. (not to mention how horrifying it would be, to me and my family and friends, to cough up my entire social graph to be pimped out for commercialization all in one place) - LogEx
Facebook is not search able by Google. The content inside Google is closed. So how is this going to be an address book? Until they make the content searchable that will not happen - Rob Cairns
I've been using Google sync for about a month now, ever since I got Google Voice and it's worked flawlessly so far. I'm amazed at how fast it pushes updates to the iPhone. It's almost instantaneous. I haven't tried the FaceBook integration yet and I'm reluctant to do so since I don't see any real benefit at this point. - Mike Elliott
With this script (from Googler Brad Fitzpatrick) http://brad.livejournal.com/2398409..., you can sync your Facebook contacts with your Google Contacts. It works perfectly (merging existing contacts), it's very fast, very secure (Google API). Just awesome. - Jérôme Flipo
Plaxo is a good alternative too. True, not everyone is there, lacking the network effect Facebook has. But integration with Address Book or Outlook is great and I find that people also maintain their info up-to-date. Thanks for those who mentioned the Google Sync, still using MobileMe and didn't want any additional sync to break everything. Might try it. - Paul Papadimitriou
Yeah, I have a Plaxo account. A lot of my friends do too, but they never update their Plaxo information. In the end it's more than just the technology. People actually _use_ Facebook. Facebook is wise to capitalize this and strategize towards being your portal on the internet. It's something that Plaxo could never dream of. - Andre P. Siregar from email
Interesting topic because I had just migrated over from my OutLook/Palm combo to a Google Contacts (Gmail) / iPhone combo. The reason why I wanted to do this is because I think it is finally time to move my contacts from a physical machine to the cloud. The sync between Google Contacts and Calendar with the iPhone via Google Sync is quite seamless and I am getting to like it more and more everyday. - Christopher Yeo
I use gmail/blackberry combo - the sync is almost perfect. Rather than use Highrisehq - I'm now trying to improvise gmail contacts+labels to do the same thing. - Jose Paul Martin
Jose, the problem is that you can't search for contact groups, i.e you can't list contacts that are in two different groups/labels - e.g search for [group:(work AND nyc]. You can't do that either in Facebook. If you have a workaround for Google Contacts, please share! - Jérôme Flipo
Just discovered a way to use Google Sync to get my Facebook Events automatically put into my iPhone. First, import your FB events into Google Calendar as a new calendar using these instructions: http://gr33ndata.blogspot.com/2007... then just set up Google Sync to sync that calendar as well. - Otto
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Anyone having difficulty with Twitter apps today? They all don't load on the first try.
get a life. it's labor day. - MoreChiba
Difficulty with Twitter itself, actually. - Matt Snoulten
are you on Mac with Snow Leopard upgrade? if yes, better reinstall the apps - gianandrea
Nope, I was referring to the iPhone apps. - Steve Rubel from email
Maybe this is the problem: http://twitter.com/Twitter... - Holger Eilhard
I've stopped using twitter -- maybe that's the problem! ;P (well, I'm still feeding it from FF ;) - Norbert Mayer-Wittmann
I can't load them or, once I have, I hit my limit very quickly. Then I turn to ff - Kirsten Mitchell
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Internet addiction center opens in US http://m.apnews.com/ap...
Do they offer consultations via online chat? - Bruce Lewis from fftogo
hey steve , i was wondering where do you find all these weird news - Stelios Landrakis Jr
@Stelios it's because I am addicted to the Internet!!! No seriously, my iPhone. - Steve Rubel from email
Do they have wifi? - Anika
do they beat people so hard that some die? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol... - mjc
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Made it to Toronto. Is the 3G down here? Rogers hasn't had a 3g icon since i landed. Maybe it's my phone.
When I went on Rogers at Niagara I got 3G but they wanted to charge me a ton for the data. Is there a plan you can subscribe to that gives you better international coverage? - Jesse Stay
You can buy an international plan from AT&T but you still get a 20MB limit per month - Deepak Singh
Got a data plan but apparently there were 3g issues here. - Steve Rubel from email
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Hi, I'm Steve Rubel. (neat service!) http://hi.im/steverubel
Steve, I think you melted our servers with a single Tweet. (I'm a cofounder of Hi, I'm) - Ryan Kuder
Yikes, sorry! - Steve Rubel
Robert Scoble
@MarkMayhew I'm just playing with Posterous. Not sure I'll use it long term, I just want to try it out.
A nice use of posterous is as private message board for company, family or whatever. - Dealsend
Been trying for just a couple weeks. It's steadily growing on me. - Micah Wittman
Best for mobile uploads w/ease. - Brenda Rothaupt
Posterous has really grown on me. Love it as a fun place to post media... stuff that I dont think my blog subscribers would really wanna have in their feeds daily, but stuff i still wanna share. essential part of my day ...Posterous is! - Cody Heitschmidt
Also insanely easy on mobile device. Something FF is still really lacking, imo - Cody Heitschmidt
Thanks to your entry I have discovered it and I like it very much. Thanks :) - Iñaki Rodriguez
I´mm having some problems with autopost. I use to publish to my blog when I just wanted to publish to posterous. But it´s my fault, I´m triying to learn - Javier Godoy
I love it. It's all that I use, for now. My blog is http://zacharytg.posterous.com if you want to know the top stories from Techmeme, Engadget, and Techcrunch. - Zachary TG
Make sure you install the PicPosterous app on your iPhone - instant posting of pictures and video. - Leo Laporte
If Posterous gets importing and likes, it's Friendfeed. - Steve Rubel
Steve except Posterous can get on Techmeme while FriendFeed can not. Sigh. - Robert Scoble from iPhone
I love posterous. - Andru Edwards
It's just ok, tried it, left it! - stephen pieraldi
Posterous is saving my life right now. I have four blogs all centered around lingerie and hosiery (two Posterous, one Blogspot, one Tumblr), a Facebook account related to these blogs, two Twitter accounts (one that acts as an RSS feed for the Blogspot blog and one where I tweet about lingerie/hosiery/personal life) a Friend Feed, two Flickr accounts and a YouTube account. There are many... more... - Lisa Norman
I've had much better results posting from ShareIn to Facebook/Twitter. The problem is how links are treated with Posterous. I'm thinking Facebook-FF will get it right eventually. - Phil Dunn
My wife, which is the least technically-inclined person loved it! She can now post not to one, but 2 different blogs without problems. Making it as simple as sending an email made all the difference. A great tool for someone who doesn't want to do a full-blown blog. I love it also ;) - Angel B
After all...you can only use a product so long until that shiny new feature comes along ;) - Nicholas James
I recomment hellotxt better than that, at least for me - Tolga Akmazoglu
Steve Rubel
With the new Facebook iPhone app, Facebook is becoming my address book.
So with that, an improved inbox, events, and contacts, does this put them as a serious contender with Google in the organization realm? - Jesse Stay
@Jesse sort of. They get social, Google doesn't. - Steve Rubel from email
I've been using MyPhone+ and/or fex to sync my iPhone contact list with Facebook. Would be more useful if FB's terms of service allowed these apps to sync phone numbers and/or email addresses as well. Right now they'll sync names, photos, addresses, birthdays, etc. That's darned handy. - Otto
Absolutely and I really appreciate people who put their phone numbers into Facebook. That is a life saver! - Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble
Sigh, looks like I took down Posterous. Sorry @nikan and @love2think I need sleep (it's 4 a.m. here). Will repost later if isn't working).
Louis Gray post about sleep being for the weak in 3...2...1 - Spidra Webster
I was just trying to get on my page. Posterous just got Scobled... - Judd6149
I miss your posts on Scobleizer.com - Jesse Stay
I agree with Jesse, I don't really think you would've have taken Rackspace down. - Jimminy
I just like to have one home base to get all things Scoble. Posterous distracts from that. - Jesse Stay
Jesse, I agree how long has he been using Posterous, I've probably missed everything for several months - Jimminy
At the same time I do respect that you try out new services like this Robert. You're helping them out, giving them exposure, and experiencing first hand whether others like Steve Rubel are right regarding their switch to Posterous. I still think you're better off basing off Scobleizer.com though - you'll be back. Of course I've said the same thing to Steve Rubel so maybe I'm the odd one out. :-) - Jesse Stay
Jesse: it doesn't matter too much. People are able to find my stuff no matter where I post it. But I will start hooking things back into my blog. I've just been having some troubles there and want to wait until I get to Rackspace this week. - Robert Scoble
I also need to test out other services and see if there's a different usage model there than on my crusty old blog. - Robert Scoble
Sounds good - I'll find it regardless - it's just more work this way. :-) I'm being lazy, mostly. And yes, I agree it's good to test other services. - Jesse Stay
Sleep is a waste of time and unproductive. While you're snoozing, the rest of us will be plotting. - Louis Gray
Don't make a liar outta me, Louis. That was quite a few seconds more than 3! :) - Spidra Webster
My mistake, Spidra. My alerts are not yet Pubsubhubbub enabled. - Louis Gray
Ah yes - they are sub-Pubsubsububsbubsbub - WorldofHiglet
Robert, one watchout (at least I have heard) is to be weary of posting content 2x because Google will penalize you. That's why I decided just to make the jump. Also, ping Posterous to get into the themes beta. It's coming along. - Steve Rubel
Google should make their duplicate content penalty smart enough to figure out when there's a reasonable reason for the duplication. Given how many popular sites get scraped, I'd hate to think Google is dinging them too for something that is out of their control. - Jason Clarke
Steve Rubel
Today is opening day for our new offices in NYC. It feels like the first day of school all over again.
location? - Allen Stern
250 Hudson Street. - Steve Rubel from email
Steve Rubel
@planetsab Themes for Posterous are coming soon. I am in the alpha.
any thots abt how Posterous posts links to the P page instead of the article referenced when using the bookmarklet? - Phil Dunn
Me too - Wayne Sutton from iPhone
Good news! How soon? - Michael Fidler
Could you post some screenshots? - Tomy Thomson
@Tomy not without their blessing. - Steve Rubel
yippiee... - zʍıɔ
Can't wait to see themes in Posterous! - Matthew Lang
Steve Rubel
This is the funniest photo I have ever seen! (Updated: let's caption it!) - http://venturebeat.com/2009...
This is the funniest photo I have ever seen! (Updated: let's caption it!)
Haha! Yeah. That's pretty funny. - Harold Paxton
Maybe he will listen to Scoble! - Steve Rubel
I think I should be worried. My 3 yo just asked me, "Mama, why is that (edit!) man pointing at Barack Obama?" How does my 3yo recognize Obama from behind? o.O - Anika
I call Scoble by the nickname "that" all the time - Steve Rubel
LOL I fixed it. This heat is making me drop words all the time. - Anika
People recognize Michael Jordan's silhouette too - remember the cologne logo? - Daniel J. Pritchett
"How does my 3yo recognize Obama from behind?" - I remember reading about a study that found that you are actuallly more likely to recognize someone from behind. - John Craft
Dude....look at those ears. It's like a fingerprint. - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
LOL @Rahsheen. I guess so. I just didn't think my kid has had the opportunity to see the POTUS from behind, like ever. - Anika
Actually, I can't recall having the opportunity either, but it looks like him to me :) - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
That's funny! - Robert Scoble
"That's the way, I like it" :) - Burçak Çubukçu
Guess what, daddy? It's Bawack Obama's birthday! - Adrian
Caption contest: "President Barack Obama ponders new Supreme Court nominee." - Steve Rubel
Caption contest: "President Obama was being briefed by the FBI today on the most wanted men in America .." - Matt Martin
Yes President Obama, my name is Robert Scoble, I currently work for Rack.. SQUIRREL!! - Matt Martin
Caption: "Are YOU following me on FriendFeed?!" - Jason Miller
Haha! Thats a good photo. - Nicholas James
Caption: "Unfollowed, O. Here's why: ___________" - Adrian
LOL Adrian....You win! - Bill Heslin
*dead* @Adrian. - Anika
Barack: Wow, look at the way that guy points. He should be president, not me. Who is he? No, never heard of him. I know an Alex Scoble. Are they related? - Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
Adrian wins. disable comments. - chrisofspades
Disable comments! :) - directeur
Haaa haha haaa. :) - Micah Wittman
"Oh no! He's in my Twitter, and he's here too?" - John E. Bredehoft
Social Obama looking at a Social Robert Scoble's picture? This one is great! - Thierry R. Andriamirado
++Adrian Malone "Caption: "Unfollowed. O. Here's Why;______" - Robert Higgins
Security Briefing: Anything goes bad during your Presidency, well... just "Blame Scoble" -that guy on the screen. Oh yeah, he's a huge geek that tweets so much the Twitter servers crash often, thus the famed "fail whale" image shows up. :) hehe! - Susan Beebe from iPhone
The Internet Wants YOU. - says Uncle Robert. - Sarah is Novembery
Does this mean Twitter would be down or no? :) - Christian Anderson from iPhone
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