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Google Wave Arrives This Month: Are You Ready? - http://mashable.com/2009...
Solaris™, Laurent65, Diego Barros and 45 other people liked this
"27 days and counting. That’s how long it is until September 30th, when Google will start sending 100,000 invites for the early test of Google Wave. The real-time communication platform has captured the imagination of countless communication, social media, and tech enthusiasts that want to get their hands on its game-changing features. It can import Twitter, provide real-time chat, play back past conversations, and even allows for drag-and-drop file uploads."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
i can't wait
- Joe Azzara
Give me, give me!
- Brandon
So the 27th is when they send out the 100k invites, shame. So the rest of us will have to wait until when? Next year?
- Kol Tregaskes
Meh.
- Jason, Incognito
give me give me give me!
- Brandon
yes and I can't wait to try it.
- Rob Cairns
I hope they give us existing users a handful of invites on the 30th.
- Eric Geller
Yes please, Eric. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Ready, waiting, but planning to be disappointed
- Kim Landwehr
Ready, waiting, hoping I get to be early on this one - usually way early with tech stuff, but got a Voice invite so late I h8 the number and never use it, etc. Want to avoid same issue here :)
- Leslie Poston
So so so so ready.. LET THE BEAT ROCK.
- FFTornado
I still don't know what to think about it.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I've had a play with it and it's great, shame it's such a long way off for other normal people. Maybe I'll be lucky on the 30th.
- Kol Tregaskes
somebody invite me
- vinod
Could someone please invite me?
- Lucius Payne
If you want an invite post here: http://ff.im/91M9R
- Kol Tregaskes
What's your geekiest/favorite gadget right now?
Mark Essel, David Berrebi, Quang Tran and 12 other people liked this
I'll start. I'm enjoying playing with my Pogoplug, which turns any USB hard drive into a network hard drive that you can access from the web anywhere in the world. pogoplug.com
- Matt Cutts
I am totally addicted to my iPod Touch. I've been using my PC less now, but sadly it's also effected my blogging and productivity.
- Imran Hussain
Predictable answer, I know, but the energy related apps on my iPhone.
- Peter Troast
matt what happened to your hair?!! (ive been on vacation)
- sean percival
My new HTC Magic. Been hacking on it and installing all sorts of ROMs and apps ever since I got it 2 weeks ago.
- Stelian Iancu
from iPhone
HTC G1. changed my life.
- Erez Sonnenschein
He lost a bet ... he he.
- Stelian Iancu
from iPhone
My iPhone has changed my life!
- Peter
It has to Iphone 3G[S] which is my first video camera.
- ashish
Me too, Stelian: My HTC Magic is so much geek-a-liciousness: rooting, hacking customizing..
- J. David Goodman
Bought the iPhone 3GS 2 days ago, trying to organize the homescreens now. (Also: the move from iPod Touch to iPhone is actually a bit scary.)
- Gustav Holmström
Depends. My heartrate/stopwatch is winning me back. I wish it had GPS and a pedometer.
- Admiral Anika
@Gustav: Why is it scary?
- Stelian Iancu
from iPhone
My htc magic...great phone!
- Sufian Siddiqi
from Android
Holy mackerel, Matt!! Your head is shiny! My current favorite gadget is the Blackberry 8900+Google Voice. I feel sorry for those poor iPhone users ;)
- Ron's Home And Hardware
Blackberry 8900, although I cannot wait for the 9700, T-Mobile needs a 3G Blackberry device like yesterday :)
- Nithin Jawali
@Stelian: To use it with the operator I prefer here in Sweden, I have to jailbreak and unlock it. And its always scary to see if you made all settings right, and don't pay per MB of data you use, or roams of another network etc.
- Gustav Holmström
iPhone 3GS - I dumped a BB Bold and I am so happy now!
- Giorgio
the reprap open souced 3d printers http://reprap.org/bin...
- Maurice Walshe
@Gustav: Ahh, I know what you mean. I had to do the same here in Switzerland with my 3G. However, you're scared only the first time you do it :-)
- Stelian Iancu
@Stelian: Nah, scared the first days, and really scared to call and check the balance.
- Gustav Holmström
My IronKey. Hands-down.-- find out about it at ironkey.com
- Chris Arkwright
Lovin' my Slacker G2! Cancelled XM subscription months ago and this little G2 is far more enjoyable than any of the satellite radios (and service) I've had over the years.
- Aaron Katz
my E71, of course
- Ole Irgens
Palm Pre, ftw!
- .LAG liked that
iPhone / Palm Pre
- vijay
I've been really enjoying my new Nike+ app with running sensor that syncs with iPhone 3Gs/iTunes. I've been running alot listening to RAGE and tracking all my data. Pretty cool technology that I am benefiting from healthwise.
- Jason Cronkhite
from iPhone
Palm Pre - AKA pocketable Linux server with EVDO, WiFi, Bluetooth, touchscreen, keyboard, and a camera.
- Ken Sheppardson
Favorite is, ofcourse, my lowly Sony Ericsson W580i with the gifted Noise Cancelling Earbuds :D
- Yuvi
cell phone jammer for all you people with no manners!
- Drew
Pogoplug as well but soon it will be my new Drobo NAS!
- Lester Greenberg
the google flashing pin. It's hypnotic.
- gareth - MMX Edition
IPhone 3G
- Dave Dugdale
HTC Hero - I have had it for about a week by now, once you get rid of all the HTC Sence widgets it runs like a charm:-)
- Jonas Andreasson
from Android
Pedometer.... earlier it was iPod.
- Sudar
Usb coffe warmer
- Melita
Kinda old.. but Wacom tablet
- eapen
DSLR camera :)
- hIpPy
Currently it's my feet. Low tech discovers enabling me to walk/run home all of a sudden. Oh, and iPhone app. Runkeeper to make sure I remember it too :)
- (unknown)
My new netbook!
- Stephanie
My 15-year-old son Patrick, on why teens don't use Twitter: "They don't see the point."
Doug Randall in SL, echostreamer, Daniel Chow and 95 other people liked this
Most teens just want to talk with their friends, not write to the world, he says.
- Robert Scoble
that's it- the understanding of publics.
- Kevin Marks
Plus they have video games for entertainment and have lots of time. I don't have time, so Twitter is a form of entertainment that I can get in bite sized chunks.
- Robert Scoble
That's it in one sentence: "Most teens just want to talk with their friends, not write to the world, he says" now maybe the world can start spinning again.
- Hoop
It's really interesting how I've noticed that most of my peers (20-somethings) are too hooked on Facebook to use Twitter or FriendFeed. Again, they don't see the point; Facebook has built-in Twitter that shares with the people they already know and care about.
- Jason Preston
my 13 yr old daughter says the same
- Miguel Rodriguez
too easy to get in trouble for what you say - on most networks you have to accept the invite of those who want to connect - not so on twitter
- Julie Gallaher
That's the same response I get from nieces and nephews.
- Joseph Ferris
Same thing I hear from a ton of people, regardless of age. For most people, they first need a "point" to use it or else they either don't sign up or don't return.
- Jeff Peters
Because their parents are there
- Bwana ☠
danah talked about how some teens are using private twitter accounts, as Facebook is now too public, as their parents and teachers are there http://bit.ly/Awmw9 Multiple publics http://bit.ly/publics
- Kevin Marks
My 14-year-old daughter doesn't want to share her life with the world on Twitter...and I'm good with that!
- Kirsti Scott
They care, like us about reputation, but within their 'groups' - not publicly....
- Mrinal Desai
I am here, and I am only thirteen. But I use it to post news, not about my life.
- Zachary TG
I'll have to explain it to her in detail before she gets it, prefers Facebook since ALL of her friends are there
- Miguel Rodriguez
Kids today don't understand nor care about the social dynamics that they will be involved in. Without a solid background now they can never hope to make truly justified choices later on. It scares me because I have to deal with them directly.
- Adam
Good plan, Zachary!
- Kirsti Scott
I'm not much older than your son, but I have a twitter. Noticeably many of my friends detest twitter and compare it to facebook status messages, therefore they are unable to understand what makes Twitter great. Facebook has managed to grab the minds of us teenagers. I must admit I am much more inclined to update my facebook statuses as my friends will comment on it.
- Rahul Krishnakumar
Adam- Pardon? I do.
- Zachary TG
the reason Twitter does well with teens is because they don’t care about networking – the act of creating/extending a network – as much as they do in their existing network itself. http://www.kanjhan.com/2009...
- Bhavishya Kanjhan
PARDON ME! DOES ANYBODY HAVE A BRAIN?
- Zachary TG
Don't worry Zachary - you don't exist in this thread
- Bwana ☠
And why?
- Zachary TG
It seems that every ones use of these tools is a bit different. I use twitter/friendfeed to keep in touch with fellow surfers and fellow web developers I know both here and across the world. Twitter/friendfeed have be come my best tools for this.
- Luke Kilpatrick
My son, while I type into FriendFeed, is playing Halo. The original one.
- Robert Scoble
Yet when I talk about the importance of tying Twitter to gaming, I get ignored
- Bwana ☠
Zach - no clue man, you're the exception the point in this thread :)
- Bwana ☠
Also teenagers are less likely to stick with Twitter long enough to make it useful to them, Facebook has a sort of instant gratification with adding your friends and commenting them etc.
- Chris Lawrence
I am @ricklafave on twitter, but I see the gap being that teens are all about text direct conversations. I see a huge gap in communication between the generations.
- Rick LaFave
Thank you for that clarification.
- Zachary TG
Bwana- You just got yourself another subscriber. :)
- Zachary TG
Hey now, I'm 16 and Twitter totally rules over Facebook for me. Twitter's for discussing news; Facebook's for your personal life. Totally agree w/ Zachary TG
- Kirk R. Arner
Success!
- Bwana ☠
I'm with Zachary, Adam... that was a bit of a blanket statement.
- Bettina Tizzy
Not too big on FriendFeed, though. Not enough people use it yet.
- Kirk R. Arner
I got to this through Scoble's Twitter crossposting.
- Kirk R. Arner
Bettina Tizzy: Thank you
- Zachary TG
Of course there are exceptions, I'm 19 and I'm on Friendfeed and Twitter, but we're talking about the majority of teenagers, Kirk and Zachary.
- Chris Lawrence
Have to agree here... my kid (13) and step brother (14) are total facebook kids... they occasionally hop on MySpace as well. Both try to get into Twitter, but really do not see the point.
- Darin aka iGoByDoc
Chris Lawrence: I understand. But like 60% of students at my school use Twitter, only around 40% use Facebook.
- Zachary TG
By the time today's teens are into things they'll look upon Twitter like we now look at IRC. I'm wondering if I even still have an IRC client on my machine....
- Andrew Leyden
Totally agree, Chris, but more teens are into tech than people think. Not all of us are texting to our friends about useless junk 24/7.
- Kirk R. Arner
because it takes too long and is too involved...
- Morgan Haley
Adults are very lazy...140 characters is tough to power through, but doable. The only people lazier than adults? Teenagers. Why bother with Twitter when their lives revolve around Facebook and it meets all their needs?
- Todd Pringle
That's really cool, I know about three of my friends on Twitter and they never use it haha. And if they do they use it as they would Facebook status.
- Chris Lawrence
Even though I text friends, it is just for information, not for useless information.
- Zachary TG
Todd Pringle: I am so not lazy. I wouldn't be spelling my words correctly now would I?
- Zachary TG
Texting has always been really big in Australia, Zachary. It's a habit that's hard to get out of.
- Chris Lawrence
Well yeah, same for me, but we're the exceptions.
- Kirk R. Arner
Except for the Australia thing.
- Kirk R. Arner
Zach: speaking in generalities of course. Clearly you are an exception. All up on Friendfeed and whatnot.
- Todd Pringle
I recently started texting. But it was almost created in Canada.
- Zachary TG
I will be happy when everyone has the internet in their pocket and I can just email people instead of spending 25c everytime I want to use 140 characters :(
- Chris Lawrence
Todd Pringle: Thank you. I see that people on FriendFeed are different then the casual social networker. We have manners and use large words and sentences. Thank you
- Zachary TG
goes back to "announce" vs. "discuss", too. Fb has nice "my friends and family" feel that Twitter and FF don't yet have.
- MikeAmundsen
Chris Lawrence- What is the 25c for?
- Zachary TG
Depends on geographic area. Here it was the Myspace revolution, then slowly became Facebook. The early adopters of Facebook jumped on the Twitter ship and now the middle stage of Facebook adopters are jumping to Twitter. Does Facebook rule supreme among my group? Yes, with myspace a close second, and twitter slowly catching up. PS, i'm 16.
- Sean Quinn
It's 25c per SMS in Australia.
- Chris Lawrence
I also don't think most teenagers grasp the difference between Twitter and Facebook. My friends who are content with Facebook don't see any need for Twitter and are actually puzzled by it's intended use. Over and over again I here, "Well Facebook can do that, can't it?"
- Angus Burton
OK
- Zachary TG
It is only 5c in Canada per text, and unlimited for 5 dollars.
- Zachary TG
Yeah phone plans in Australia are really ridiculous. There are hardly any unlimited SMS plans and the ones that are you are usually paying over $80 a month. But I digress!
- Chris Lawrence
Wow.
- Zachary TG
But our data plans are outrageous. $30 for only 500MB.
- Zachary TG
My 16-year-old daughter said the same thing a few months back. But she finally relented and is on Twitter now. A few weeks ago she said "I've never been more informed in my life" since joining.
- Patrick Giblin
Seeing the longtail of Twitter takes a somewhat more mature mindset. That's why some mature teens can 'get' Twitter and why some childish adults don't (and content with Facebook).
- CannonGod
I think the topic teens liking or not liking twitter topic is entertaining at best. Does anyone have any decent statistics on this? Not to mention the term "teen" is pretty loose 13 and 18 are a world apart. I would think a teen using or not using would be more based on their personal interest. My 20 and 30 year old friends that aren't in the tech industry could care less about it.
- Nicholas Fidanza
Admittedly younger generations want to talk with less ppl but more frequently, and adults want to create more connections for friendship or financial gain. Kids don't need to worry about being loved, they have mum & dad at the end of the day :-P Sad single geeks however...
- CannonGod
@Angus that was a comment concern among my friends. Where twitter began to rule was among mobile updating. Although teens can use and do use Facebook Mobile, a two-way conversation can work well among a group of friends via Twitter on mobile phones much rather than Facebook status updates/conversations on Facebook, in my experience.
- Sean Quinn
I'm 16 and me and my close group of friends use twitter-its possible to have "chat room" like conversations about things (where are we gonna go after school, etc.) if we're all hooked up on it-it works great, but admittedly some kids use twitter more than others (like me)
- Oliver Reich
My 15 year old chats on Myspace with her friends. I told here to message one of her regular chat buddies as "You Troll" today and she laughed until she almost peed her pants. :)
- Eric Logan
I just see Twitter as Social SMS. Teens like texting, so really it's just an extension of that. I can therefore see it being used more as a tool rather than an actual network per-say.
- CannonGod
While it’s possible to make Twitter “private,” the culture of Twitter is all about participation in a large public square. From the digerati seeking widespread attention to the politically minded hoping to appear on CNN, many are leveraging Twitter to be part of a broad dialogue. Teens are much more motivated to talk only with their friends and they learned a harsh lesson with social...
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- Johni Fisher
my oldest is 20 and uses Twitter and friendfeed a lot but he's a techie- my youngest is 17, uses mostly facebook and sms with friends - doesn't grok twitter yet he's very social...
- mike "glemak" dunn
from iPhone
got kids 24, 22, & 18. 24 is the only Tweeter. all use Fb. none use FF.
- MikeAmundsen
There's a great article up on the London Guardian about this - http://www.guardian.co.uk/busines...
- Steffan Antonas
The article discusses that Teens like building out profiles, and taking to people they know. Twitter's not really for that - it's used more for information sharing IMO.
- Steffan Antonas
It's a crime to suggest that Twitter as a whole is just a single feature of FB and has been that way since the beginning. I never understood when Twittr was demo'd to me how a single feature of a bigger app (in my case, IM status/mood messages) needed to be an app on its own. However, what the early adopter mass wants, the early adopter mass gets (until the mainstream mass shows up and it's zomg culture/class war... I LOVE watching this.)
- Eric Rice
Sean: That's a good point. Strangely, using Twitter as a conversation base didn't occur to me. I actually thought more about using a FriendFeed room for that.
- Angus Burton
I agree with Patrick and I'm well past my teens! FF adds talking with my friends, so it works.
- Rachel Lea Fox
It is simple: kids don't use Twitter because they dont have an iPhone! Most teenagers don't have a decent internet enabled device that allows them to use Twitter nicely. Most parents can't afford (or want) to pay $150+ phone bills for their kids plus buy them an iPhone. I have many young friends and they all love the "Big Brother" spirit of Twitter. I totally dont believe the "I'm a...
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- Arturo Toledo
No dis... I have a 19 y/o daughter...Maybe it because he sees you using it and thinks its an "old people" thing... ?
- Ron Thompson
What does he think about FF?
- Geoff Schultz
Geoff: same thing, but then he might be biased cause I hang here all day and it's simply not cool to hang out with your parents when you're 15.
- Robert Scoble
It's a lot easier to have friends in school. On the outside you have to be a bit more proactive.
- Todd Hoff
True enough Robert, Also true Todd.
- Geoff Schultz
I only use Twitter to broadcast what I am doing on Posterous, and FriendFeed.
- Matt Ruiz
I'm an older (some say very old) user and friends my age don't do Twitter, FB etc. Their opinion: why bother when I have email? Why would I want to share with the Internet at large? The web is full of idiots.
- Robert Hafer
from iPhone
Geoff: I read FriendFeed I just don't post very much. I enjoy reading Twitter and FF they can cetainly be informative and interesting. None of my friends are on Twitter so I was speaking from my experience with them, not all teens.
- Patrick Scoble
Todd: That is also absolutely true with students.
- Patrick Scoble
It is true but a lot of adults don't see the point of it either at the moment and I think it'll change.I'm 19 and I think it's more useful than Facebook etc.
- Craig Malone
kids dont use words or language, they communicat through hyperlinks & txt. as they get older, they'll appreciate the value of words
- echostreamer
Teens spend 6 or 8 hours a day within a few hundred feet of most of the people they know. Why would they need Twitter?
- Rob Sterling
the same reason they spend the next 8 hours glued to facebook and the internet instead of going outside to chill with those friends (no offense :)
- echostreamer
Yeah, but information on Facebook is shared the same way as in school - it's hierarchical and clique-based. Kids are more like base primates than adults. Twitter is too open, when they want to control the dissemination of information among those people they know in school.
- Rob Sterling
There are a lot of 13-15 year-olds on Twitter, just look around :) The best way to find them is to find a celebrity who might garner a teen following ... That said, Twitter is (for now) nowhere near as popular with teens as MySpace and Facebook, for sure.
- dcap
Also, most kids can't afford smartphones, and using Twitter exclusively by text message is mostly a one-way affair. It's pretty lame. I bet your 15 y.o. son loves to text and spends hours on Facebook.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
I think teens may be more privacy savvy than the media paints them. They know that a nasty Tweet about a school official can get them expelled; but a private txt is safe.
- Robert Hafer
How many teens are marketing gurus and life coaches? Kids aren't selling anything and see no need to sell themselves. THAT'S why they don't care about Twitter.
- Kimber Scott
Robert: it is worse than that. One message can get them shunned.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Just like my older friends, they have no desire to connect with the Twitter-verse at large. But for different reasons.
- Robert Hafer
I've been looking for the point for a long time :O) - To me it has become a place where I can "vocalize" things I've always just said to myself before. I just find it funny anyone actually "listens"
- Bill Rawlinson
Sounds familiar: http://blog.monicaobrien.com/why-hig...
- Monica O'Brien
There are many uses of twitter :)
- Key KnowHow
I think its good that teens don't like twitter. We can get on here without them!
- Su Butcher
As a teenager I didn't see the point of reading a newspaper either, but now I work in one!
- | Balu |
I don't have any friends, so I'm forced to write for the world.
- Big K
Interns in my office say they know college friends starting to use Twitter. Of course, none of the interns actually do. Twitter seems to be good for celebrities and professional networking.
- Hutch Carpenter
What's the big deal ? Most teens don't follow current events like politics or the economy either, it's not what being a kid is about.
- Doug Randall in SL
So that means he will like Google Wave? = the next Teen Twitter
- Hans Kainz
We can't say that Google Wave is the next Twitter, it's more instant messaging than anything (and I'd say FriendFeed relates more to it than Twitter does).
- Hugh Isaacs II
I do deeply hope that Google Wave takes off. I really hate signing into my msn account just to keep in touch with friends who can't get on the GTalk bandwagon or just don't see the point.
- Chris Chua
I think if you could start a conversation like this one on twitter just like on ff or fb with commenting tweets or just parsing them when you reply, it would be a lot more interesting
- Kaysha
Interesting that the 15 year old kid who got the job at Morgan Stanley did so because his mum knew a chap who she met when dog walking - so not what he knew but who his mum knew, and because of that he had an audience for his opinion.
- Simon Rogers
another possibility ADD
- polou/indigo_bow
Wrote a post about this a long time ago. Interaction will scale down as the possibilities to interact scale up. The next gen doesn't care about talking to the whole world. There is little value in it
- Alexander van Elsas
from iPhone
Just blogged on this subject. I don't believe this is a generational issue. It's about privacy and signal:noise ratio. When those degrade, communities migrate to new social networking services, regardless of group members' average age. http://lehawes.wordpress.com/2009...
- Larry Hawes
the wisdom of youth!
- Neil Ashworth
AT&T Slammed For Wireless Streaming 'Double Standard' - Consumer groups, cable execs say carrier's being dodgy, inconsistent... - dslreports.com - http://www.dslreports.com/shownew...
Sufian Siddiqi, LPH™ and his dog P™, Suburban Oblivion and Mike Bracco liked this
"Consumer groups, cable execs say carrier's being dodgy, inconsistent..."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
I see. It's funny to see cable execs bitch about the telephony oligarchy when they themselves do the same exact things to the customers of their particular oligarchical sandbox.
- matthew john ernisse
the fact you can't use Sling Player over 3G on iPhone is total BS! Great find on this article!!!
- Mike Bracco
Dilbert comic strip for 06/30/2009 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive...haha...pretty funny - http://dilbert.com/strips...
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Sufian Siddiqi, @runb@laj!, Josh Begin and 4 other people liked this
I made a promise years ago to never use PowerPoint in front of an audience again. So, how do I organize a presentation? Mind Manager.
Kathleen Capps, Elliott Goodwin, Daniel Schildt and 125 other people liked this
It's magic. Frees your mind from the stupid bullet list that bores audiences to death. Every time I see a PowerPoint deck my brain turns off.
- Robert Scoble
I have used this for years, great communication tool
- Mel Buckpitt
i prefer personalbrain. not as easy to use as mind manager but powerful nonetheless.
- Daniel Langendorf
Robert, as a former highschool teacher, I can assure you that Powerpoint is the evil enemy of learning...and yet every school insisted teachers started using it because the schools thought PP "was" technology...yikes. Advice? Tell stories with passion and understanding.
- Daniel Kenney
Daniel: I totally agree. The way schools teach technology just makes me ill.
- Robert Scoble
anyone ever try prezi.com? it's a bit different-- much more visual
- Ted Curran
So instead of Powerpoint™, use a real presentation platform that allows interactive data and tactile response to both you and your audience.
- Eric Martindale
i have been working on a new keynote /powerpoint method I can
- Ted Curran
PowerPoint is only a problem in that it makes it way too easy to just make lists of bullet points. They almost force you to go down that path. If they could somehow turn that off, and just provide the functionality to create a series of slides, each of which had a line or two of text, an image, etc... I don't think it'd get such a bad rap.
- Ken Sheppardson
*call "Attention Method"-- it's a way to use PPT or Apple Keynote not in the way the program wants to be used but in the way people's minds work
- Ted Curran
similar to other software noted is my favorite.. Big Mouth
- Daniel Kenney
What makes Mind Manager the first platform to come to mind? I have never heard of it until right now.
- Amani
I agree Daniel Kenney :(
- Mohammad Abdurraafay
Amani: I saw Buzz Bruggeman give a talk with it and was mesmerized.
- Robert Scoble
Try Prezi, and if you have some time to devote to it, Keynote. Both are really pretty impressive.
- Ivan
I came across http://prezi.com last month, worth a look. It has sort of a tv commercial look, like the 2-d Ford pickup commercials.
- Tanner Powell
Too bad Mind Manager on the mac feels utterly abandoned. I switched to mac, but haven't used MindManager since. A real pity.
- Phil Calvin
I kind of like Prezi too. Very visual. Depends on the situation I suppose.
- Kim Feraday
Keynote.
- Jeremy Franklin
sure. try www.prezi.com. its amazing
- gatza
I don't want to get into a PowerPoint bashing thing here, but I agree it's bad. Another thing I've noticed is that the boring speakers usually have the most elaborate PP presentations. Yikes.
- Missionary Broadcasting
I'm a big fan of MindManager as well. Once you're done conceptualizing your presentation, Powerpoint (or any other presentation tool) can obviously be used as an effective tool. Powerpoint isn't innately evil, it's just too easy to miss-use. If you want to try a different tool give sliderocket.com a try. (but I'd stick with Mindmanager)
- Jason Goldberg
Well that's two programs I had no idea existed 15 minutes ago.
- Dean Clark
Do you use iThoughts iPhone app? I use it every day and they just upgraded to allow Mind Manager export
- Dave
Prezi is too difficult to learn for anyone - it is supercool but if you want to get right down to working, forget it - I wish I could use it - for mindmaps to me nothing beats MindMeister both for presentation materials as well for organizing ideas and tools - it is much easier and immediate than any other mindmapping tool I have tried, including having a full revisions history, working...
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- Robin Good
In the end the vote of PowerPoint chastity should really be targeted at avoiding making the "types" of PowerPoint slideshows that are so bad. Bad choice of images, too much text, and you reading them as you show them. It is not the tool so much, but the culture we have built around it. Whether with PowerPoint, Keynote, Sliderocket, OpenOffice or GoogleDocs the power of your presentation...
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- Robin Good
I wholeheartedly agree with you..PP is horrible! I refuse to use it and I've made a point to reject ppt files that colleagues send me with slides re design changes. I'll have to give MindManager a try..sounds great.
- Sufian Siddiqi
from fftogo
Prezi does look cool. I definitely need to take it for a spin.
- Alexander Grundner
Chalk board & elaborate hand gestures
- sofarsoShawn
The issue with powerpoint (and keynote) is that the flow of the presentation is completely locked in, and the presentation environment is unchanging. Mindmanager (or Freemind) allows branching, and the ability to store extra content for questions (only use as needed). Powerpoint or equivalent is good for building a screen when you want one that can dynamically build. An alternative way...
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- Alistair Nicholson
Come on! it's not the tool but the human mind behind the use of it!
- Stefanos Karagos
I used to use Thebrain.com personal brain for the same purpose. I stopped when I moved to multiplatforms (Mac and linux as well as Windows). I just checked back at the site to find that it is now available cross-platform (haven't checked that the data files are yet tho). I might be remaking contact with an old friend! I liked the easy way one could use local files or web resources. By...
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- Alistair Nicholson
@alistair: It is possible to branch PowerPoint -presentations with hyperlinks that jump from slide to another. Never considered it, but interesting idea. For example, after determining audience level, it could skip slides that explain basic things for experienced audience.
- Jemm
I like Mind Manager. Wish i had a reason to use it.
- Rodfather
Mind Manager rocks on a tablet pc
- Mel Buckpitt
Definitely. That was the last time I used it. It integrated with OneNote well too.
- Rodfather
I have been using Mind Manager for almost a year now exclusively for all my presentations. People love the refreshing look .. and so do I ;-)
- Remkus de Vries
Check out the free pptplex from Office Labs which is an add in for PP that gives you a similar zooming interface as Prezi. http://www.officelabs.com/project...
- Jamie
Alistair: That is exactly how I use PersonalBrain. I have it set up in Dropbox and am able to access it with any computer. It's worth a look-see again. It's also worth using to flesh out ideas for presentations, too, no matter what tool you end up using.
- Daniel Langendorf
Use Prezi at Prezi.com! ;) or sliderocket.com
- Csaba Mad
I am adoring Prezi - just the freshness of the look gives you a 50% boost in new biz meetings, and I really haven't found it at all hard to learn to use
- Jamie
Easy, use Keynote.
- Diego Barros
Last week i was thinking how lame PP is and actually did a presentation at college bashing it. The tool i've used for that was Prezi.com, the one mentioned by a lot of ppl in this thread. You should give them some love, definetely a great worth a look tool.
- Diego Sana
I got tired of trying to find the perfect presentation technique and ended up developing my own http://mlx.netii.net/templat... not perfect, but it works for me.
- MLx
Daniel & Jemm - thanks for that. I've just installed personalbrain on the Mac and opened some old brains done in the PC (aahh nostalgia). I really missed it as a tool. I've been using freemind, which does have some very good features, but personalbrain is still a better tool for this sort of work. Thanks.
- Alistair Nicholson
Jemm - in some cases I will just generate one or two slides using ppt or similar. By exporting them they become individual objects that I can mix and match - or call on as I need, without having to consider how to jump to them within the powerpoint package. Powerpoint (or keynote) then becomes a graphic slide authoring tool that just generates some components or objects I use in my...
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- Alistair Nicholson
I have presented for many years with MindManager. Its great for interactive presentations. Tomorrow I will use it present to a conference of independent financial advisers on the subject of mind mapping and mind mapping software. I humbly suggest they will remember my hour more than the 5 other hours of PowerPoint. This is web version summary. http://twurl.nl/24rzyv
- Andrew Wilcox
Final Cut...create a video!
- Michela Cimnaghi /cimny
Powerpoint is not the problem but how it is used.... take a look at Presentation Zen (book/website) :-)
- Gianfranco Chicco
Powerpoint is a time sink - whenever I have had to use it I ended up using more time fixing the presentation than focusing on the message. Can't remember which company took powerpoint off the systems and said they measured a productivity increase... or if it is a digital legend... but from my experience I can believe it.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
"It's a poor workman who blames his tools" -- old proverb
- Karim
Will you post your preso somewhere, would be great to see how you use it in place of powerpoint.
- jcunwired
Meh. Powerpoint is a tool to put stuff on screen. As long as you're not just reading off it...
- Yuvi
Mindmanager is a great App! I love to pull it up in meetings and just capture the ideas as they flow. Afterwards as a team we organize the information and then put it into a outline for others. Its wows the team every time! For presentations I've seen this used pretty well but if you try to print it out for users afterwards it takes more time to do (open all the collapsed trees.) I've...
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- CW™
Just convert powerpoint slides into pdf and present pdf to the audience.Although I am not a great fan of PDF or for that matter any powerpoint like software.
- ashish
ashish: you're not getting it. There's nothing worse to do to an audience than to present a standard powerpoint deck to them. The format is NOT what makes that boring.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Flash is the answer but it's a pain to learn and expensive to outsource, but that's the answer I think. Besides that, Mindjet MindManager is a fantastic peice of software
- Brandon Hall
Keynote.
- Johnny
You're right, it's not the format, nor is it Powerpoint. It is not using it to in an engaging way.
- Dennis Beatty
Robert,Sorry for misinterpreting your question. This one is a really tricky question.
- ashish
I often find slides take away from the message - people are reading the slide text instead of looking at and listening to the speaker, and the speaker is looking at the slides instead of at the audience. I wouldnt mind the speaker looking at the screen if he was demonstrating something (or writing, in the old blackboard style) but in a way slides which were supposed to support the presentation end up taking away from it. Too passive?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Much of my hourly pay job is presentations. Very interested in playing with new tools. Will review prezi, mindmanager, sliderocket, and personal brain
- Mark Essel
prezi is pretty amazing mark. i also use Free Mind but have never used it for a presentation...
- Morgan
wishing for 2nd like or something to bump this up higher amongst my likes and discussions
- metalerik
dream about it http://mindmappingsoftwareblog.com/
- bonuck (e gli associati?)
I have a talk tomorrow morning at my kids' school about technology in education. I was brainstorming it in Curio and Keynote, but I bought Prezi Pro just cuz it looks so cool. It's a little quirky, a little buggy, and not as flexible as, say Keynote, but it sure is a unique look. Mindmapping + Presentations.
- Leo Laporte
Nothing wrong with Powerpoint, it's just a tool. I do just fine with it and Keynote. Sounds like it's a presenter issue if you're bored
- Bwana ☠
I love mindmanager, but its license is toooo stupidly and insanely expensive!!
- Mohamed Salem Korayem
yeah I love using xmind for organizing talking points but I don't normally use them to present - most audiences don't grok them ime
- mike "glemak" dunn
I'm sorry, trying to learn. I have a 30 slide presentation (+-10) that i present to customers around the world usually in a room of about 10 people. What could Mind Manager do that PPT isn't doing?
- Steve C
For everyone looking to learn more about using MindManager for presentations, I have written up a number of posts on the Mindjet blog that talks about how to do it, some best practices and sample maps. The most popular post in the series was from PresentationCamp SF, "Become a Presentation Superhero": http://blog.mindjet.com/2009... while other posts covered using images, colors, and fonts within your mind maps. Check'em out or contact me if you have questions!
- Michael Deutch
thx michael, bookmarked.
- Steve C
ah, michael good to see you here - for those who don't know him michael is mindjet’s chief evangelist & one of the hardest working community engagement folks on the net - i use xmind because i test lots of open source tools but have been a customer of mindjet for years & love mindmanager :)
- mike "glemak" dunn
Yeah thanks Michael, I've been wanting to see some examples/how-to's about using MindManager for presentations.
- Justin Hopkins
Actually I spoke too soon. I'm curious to see some video of a person "giving a talk with it" like you said Robert. Do you have any recordings of some of yours of the Buzz Bruggeman talk you mentioned?
- Justin Hopkins
I find using a Mind Map a lot easier for people to follow and sparks a lot more collaboration from the group.
- Jim Lavin
Robert try Prezi:http://prezi.com/
- Dean Kakridas
If you hate Powerpoint, Robert & friends, then you have to check out Edward Tufte's essay "The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within." It's brilliant. And the cover still cracks me up: http://tr.im/lXjv
- Alan Mairson
Funny thing for me is that I've always made fun of PP style presentations and have been known as someone who really gets groups interacting, etc. (check out this clip of a game I led at Seattle Mindcamp -http://tinyurl.com/qjathj) BUT, just recently, I've discovered that for my type of improvised, interactive, often scattered, creative style --powerpoint is actually a good (much needed!) balance. So I've been upping the KeyNote. MultiModal is the way :)
- Leif Hansen
Robin Good: great comment on MindMeister.com - present.io is a very interesting app to keep track of, if you are doing a lot of online presentations. I use Skype screen share (Mac) for Coaching and presenting ways and methods to use applications.
- Jan Friman
from Nambu
How about having a standard cheaper version of mindmanager. I dont use all the awesome features version 8
- Mohamed Salem Korayem
Jemm and others - I'm back having been in the most boring presentation today that I have experienced in a very long time - powerpoint slides of the most horrible structure, plus given over a video conferencing tool where the presenter didn't read any of the questions in the typing area! Thebrain has a free version. What I've found is that because I use tiddlywiki (also free) to organise...
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- Alistair Nicholson
just a quick reaction to the person who suggested video - what can video add if you are there in person?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
@Joelle a video is a way to engage the audience and let the main messages be reminded. Your role there is to give the right introduction to the video and then open and manage the discussion after it. People will partecipate more to teh discussion. That's my personal experience by the way!
- Michela Cimnaghi /cimny
Robert, I agree & use MindManager for presentations, as well as various project information summaries, trying to stick to a "one sheet" philosophy for reports. One of my pet peeves is presenters who read the bullets on a PPT. Yikes!
- Rick Cogley
Joelle (thanks Michela) another use of video is short interviews or contributions. For example case studies with a manager from the customer explaining their problem, a business analyst explaining their technique around a specific problem, a web designer talking about how they 'imagine' the personality of a site, demonstration of an experimental technique with a patient. It creates...
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- Alistair Nicholson
I also meant to draw attention to Lief's comment about multi modal and how sometimes a powerpoint slide can present the underlying structure or main points of the presentation. I still believe there can be a place for dot points - so long as they are not the sole content. I believe there are few that would suggest Steve Jobs' presentations are boring, for example. Always worth a watch and they can be found on youtube. Other exemplars are the top rated talks on TED.com.It gives me something to aim for.
- Alistair Nicholson
FreeMind is very useful and Open Source. Give it a try!
- Nicola Junior Vitto
just got into Amode 4 project mgmt. same company @MindSystems. imports @MindJet.
- Courtney Engle
IMHO, my best tool is a whiteboard, and second place, a notebook with squares to plan a sort of storyboard. When I switch back to analog planning, I started to get my best results back on PowerPoint (I love 2007 version). Cheers,
- Rolando Peralta
Wow, what a great thread! I explored some best practices for presentations and wrote the following posts on the Mindjet blog. They could apply for any type of presentation but they're primarily focused on mind mapping...The first: 10 Steps to Great Presentation Maps -- http://blog.mindjet.com/2009...
- Michael Deutch
Next, How to Make a Great Presentation: Mapping Your Content -- This one applies to using mind maps to 'think through' your presentation content, regardless of what tool you select for the actual presentation: http://blog.mindjet.com/2009...
- Michael Deutch
Your use of colors will impact the audience. Use them well! The Secrets of Using Colors in Maps - http://blog.mindjet.com/2009...
- Michael Deutch
What’s a Picture Worth? Here's a post about incorporating images into mind map presentations. http://blog.mindjet.com/2009... -- I saw an interesting tweet from Andrew Wilcox earlier today where he suggested placing large images inside 'topic notes'.
- Michael Deutch
Prezi reminds me of microsoft photosynth.
- ashish
And finally, here are a couple of posts about fonts in your mind map presentations: 10 Fixes for Font Foibles! (http://blog.mindjet.com/2009...) and More Fun for Font Fanatics (http://blog.mindjet.com/2009...).
- Michael Deutch
michael: constructive suggestion - you should setup a mindmap group here on ff so these suggestions can be feed in separately and others can participate, they're just going to get lost inside this thread...
- mike "glemak" dunn
Wow what a great discussion. I have never heard of Prezi before and I will have a very imortant presentation to one of MNO next week. I prepared with PP, but now consider to do from scratch via Prezi.com. Thanks guys!
- Jacque
Robert, do you have anything that you can share that you've used Mind manager for? Do you actually use it in presentations or do you use it as a thought organizing tool? Thanks for answering if you have the time!
- Gregg Morris
i was blown away by a preso done in prezi.com. tried it out, the UI takes some getting used to, but w/ patience the zoom in/out approach yields great presos. worth checking out some of the demos. I saw a preso done w/ it that all took place inside the dot of a question mark (that was the reveal at end of preso). cool.
- Adrian Chan
re. TiddlyWiki: should I mention, that there's also a true presentation version?... http://ow.ly/8vMH
- schilke
Or you could emulate Carrot Top and use props from a great big trunk. Problem is you need to be a) really pumped up and b) certifiably nuts.
- bob corrigan
Schilke - thanks for the link to tiddlywiki presentation version. I've bookmarked that and visited the example. With tiddlywiki each 'tiddler' has a specifically adressable URL so that pages can be individually linked from mindmapping software. That way a complete subtopic can be created as a 'deck' but not invoked in the presentation unless we choose to go there. Back to the 'horrible'...
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- Alistair Nicholson
A cool MindMapping alternative is XMind.
- Martin Seibert
Choosy - A smarter default browser for Mac OS X - http://www.choosyosx.com/about
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seems interesting. have you tried it out?
- Cee Bee
not really. It looks interesting indeed but I just use Safari the most
- Outsanity
it's perfect for people who have many tabs open and don't care what browser they use. You can set choosy to pick the best performing browser always or give you a choice. In any case, it's what I want to have for all types of files (from docs to html) and I already asked the developer to release an app like that.
- Vincent van Wylick
I've been using this for months now. Works great!
- Holger Eilhard
I prefer Highbrow (http://www.heliumfoot.com/highbro...). Back when I tested both, Choosy had a lot of problems opening links I clicked from within Twhirl.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Verizon’s FiOS TV rollout slows in So Cal http://gadgetress.freedomblogging.com/2009...
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Have you heard the modest proposal for print copyright? 3 strikes => can't read/write anything for a year http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog...
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Marissa just announced Google Search Options. Click on "Show Options" to see the new panel of searching options.
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I'm not seeing it
- Roberto Bonini
Any idea when this will be rolled out for .ca?
- Andrew Smith
Matt, do you have an image available for what we are to look for? I don't see a "show options"
- LPH™ and his dog P™
ditto
- Sumit Chachra
I think you might have to be logged in. This query comes up with "The option you have selected is currently unavailable." unless logged in. http://www.google.com/search...
- Andrew Smith
Sure, it's in the first picture on this post above the search results: http://www.dullest.com/blog... It might take a few hours to deploy everywhere.
- Matt Cutts
It's awesome and fantastic. Looking forward to more features being added in the options as well.
- Charbax
When is Google going to buy friendfeed, put it at feeds.google.com and provide "Real-time" in the search options?
- Charbax
Nice. Not sure I get the wonderwheel.
- Laura Norvig
I love the options, but it seems like it keeps appearing and disappearing for different search sessions. Incidentally, my search settings keep getting reset to 10 results between search sessions- even if I'm still logged in. The new options only show for me when I set results to 100 and have English set.
- david pavlicko
@Charbax, since most of the founders of friendfeed recently left google, I don't think they will be selling to google anytime soon.
- Robert Felty
@Robert Felty. I would think that this would be an even better reason for Google to buy them back. My guess is that they probably have a behind the scenes agreement with Google that they can have first purchasing rights. Could be regarded as a 20% time project that needed to branch out and find external investors before it being workable. Nothing wrong with saying something like "Sorry" or "You would be welcome back".
- Charbax
david, the binary or data push to add "Show options..." can sometimes take a little bit of time to percolate out to all of our data centers.
- Matt Cutts
Evernote is to OneNote as FriendFeed is to Twitter - some products are just simply superior.
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Just don't try and download the windows version with a Norton product. Flags it as a Trojan every time.
- Randy Pollock
I keep meaning to try this. I am adding it on my "to do" list in OmniFocus :)
- Scott Graham
Added their Blackberry app just last night...works great.
- Randy Pollock
Evernote still has a ways to go in terms of content embedding. But that will come shortly. Jason is right, though. Evernote's strength is its "cloud" and cross-platform capabilities. Microsoft had the seeds to make OneNote integrate across a network; Groove replication would make OneNote absolutely killer. But Microsoft put the products under the Office umbrella - where both have languished for lack of focus. Evernote wins because it can bring features in a faster and more iterative manner.
- Lorin Olsen
I gave Evernote a try for about one day and then got away from it, but now I can't remember why! Time to re-visit it! Robert Stanke (http://robertstanke.com)
- Robert Stanke
I use OneNote for college classes and will stick with it Leo
- Chris
I use both OneNote and EverNote, each use for its own area. OneNote is great for offline work, and EverNote for online work. I even share across them.
- Michael
What do you like about OneNote better than Evernote, Chris?
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
I personally prefer the way OneNote organizes my notes -- pages within notebooks, easily accessible via a proper tab interface.
- Angelo Stavrow
The superiority of Evernote is its simplicity. OneNote is great (I use both), but to fully leverage the capabilities of OneNote requires a small investment in time. With Evernote you can just dive in.
- jcunwired
I started using it after Net@Night and I am loving it. Evernote plus reQall are two of the best productivity apps I have on the iPhone.
- David Z
Evernote for ever.
- Wo
@Michael - I use Evernote for offline work... it has good clients.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Evernote's OCR make it a fantastic tool for saving Whiteboard brainstorming sessions.
- Jim Erickson
@Jason - I keep my OneNote notebooks in a Mesh folder and it's all instantly synchronized.
- Angelo Stavrow
Mesh is great
- Randy Pollock
@Angelo - when I used to use OneNote the tab thing drove me nuts because I would make too many of them and it seemed like I had to wait until I had something "big enough" or "worthy enough" to make another tab. In Evernote a note is a note and with tagging I can organize them any way I want (kind of like the folder hierarchy vs tagging).
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Well said Leo
- Zee.
I'm a student on a Tablet PC, and so OneNote is a must for me. It's really nice and easy to draw your own hand written notes, and all my days notes are saved in separate sections, yet accessible through a global search. Evernote's "Spool of Paper" metaphore just isn't as good a method of taking notes for me. I've got a big shiny iMac at home, and would love to switch Evernote and OS X for my note taking on the go, but OneNote is the one program I just have to keep. Oh, and I sync it with DropBox ^^
- Stuart Jones
@Stuart - Evernote doesn't need to sync with a 3rd party file storage like DropBox since you can put anything in it. It also lets you do handwritten notes and e-ink, so OneNote isn't a monopoly on that. There is a list view you can use instead of the "ribbon" and you can organize everything in notebooks and tags so to only see the notes you need at a particular time. It's a different metaphor than OneNote for organization but after using it for a while I much prefer it to tabs. Saved Searches are great too.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Evernote is really platform agnostic, so you can access your data really from anywhere. It still has a bunch of features/functionality to add, but there's a lot it can do already.
- Levi Wallach
@Jason, I may be wrong, but Leo's statement seems to be saying the opposite - that OneNote is superior.
- Levi Wallach
@Lindsay - Hey, whatever works for you. Personally I haven't warmed up to the idea of tagging yet, although I use OneNote more for larger, ongoing projects so the tab system works better for me. Evernote is definitely more convenient to use for quick, disjointed notes that don't really fit into any particular project.
- Angelo Stavrow
@Levi - I think Leo is a FriendFeed fan not a Twiiter, so based on that I would say he is an Evernote fan not a OneNote.
- Jim Erickson
LOVE it... just found it after the net@night, planning on promoting on geekdads.tv shortly. BB version just came out, too!
- GeekDads.TV
@Jason - Agreed, the iPhone app is what makes Evernote especially useful for me, if only because it ties all the note-taking things I'd use the device for (notes, camera, &cet.) in one easy-to-use app. OneNote Mobile wasn't nearly as slick on my old WinMo phone.
- Angelo Stavrow
@Jim, I didn't know that, thanks.
- Levi Wallach
@Angelo - I use Evernote at work and couldn't live without it at this point (http://www.evernote.com/pub...) and it is invaluable to me for project organization (http://www.evernote.com/pub...). Like you said, to each his own... but one reason I like Evernote is...
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- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Actually, this is the first time I've used Friendfeed in this way, and it seems a whole lot nicer than Twitter for impromptu chats about a subject with people you aren't already following...
- Levi Wallach
agree it flows nicely for chats
- Randy Pollock
Twitter is a product? http://instantrimshot.com
- Bwana ☠
@Lindsay - Thanks for the link! I'm still trying to find my workflow with Evernote and I think this will help.
- Angelo Stavrow
@Levi - that would be making the assumption that Twitter is superior to FriendFeed. Personally I don't think that's the case. But Leo didn't clarify, so it is a bit ambiguous which one he prefers.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
FF more robust that twitter. Can you do what we are doing in twitter right now?
- Randy Pollock
Shovebox and Evernote: Any cool ways to use both?
- Wo
Thanks Leo, thats exactly what I was looking for! Something to tie everything together in one place, excellent!
- cowboybill
I can't get my head around ff, seems impossible to get an overview of whats going on.
- Ru Viljoen
....and here we go again. Didn't we just debate this? Stop comparing the two services. Friendfeed is not Twitter, and Twitter is not Friendfeed. They are different services IMO. But, I'm sure I'll get the exact same arguments that popped up in the last discussion.
- Fleagle
I've started to use both ff and twitter, but am finding I use them for very different reasons, and don't think they're really competing products. One doesn't need onenote if they have evernote though.
- Barry
I like a free service called WebNotes. It really saved my butt when I was working on a research paper.
- Ramona
I prefer One Note. Better organization and document embedding. But then again I use a winmo phone as well. May feel different if I had an iPhone. I work in IT and for projects, nothing beats one note and I am using it to organize my life as well.
- Jared
While I believe this is certainly true, I sense a vague sense of bitterness.
- Camden
I just love Evernote! They are a very good program!
- Lawrence Cabal
Both applications have their niche.
- johnny
That's hilarious! Let me guess...just because you get to use it on a Mac? Get over that MS complex.
- Adi
I love Evernote. I used it to plan my acoustic music show on WNUR (Evanston, IL) and then when I'm on-air I access my note for that day's program with all the links that I am going to talk about all in one place - artists coming to town etc. Now that they've added the BlackBerry app it's even more useful. The cross platform thing works well too. I use a Mac for my radio show at at home, but Windows at work.
- Ron Lewis
I'll disagree with you on this one Leo. OneNote is a great tool and beats EN. However, the dev team on ON seems very slow lately. They need to step it up.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I use OneNote and Evernote. My OneNote is synchronised via SharePoint, so for me it is available across multiple machines. The sync is seamless too, I dont have to click anything to make it happen, it just works.
- Pete Gilbert
Cross platform support wins every time, and continues to be Microsoft's biggest weakness. Plus Evernote is exactly the kind of desktop/cloud hybrid software that Microsoft should be developing but isn't.
- Eric P
@LPH - What makes OneNote beat Evernote in your opinion? @Pete Evernote's sync is seemless too... It happens automatically from cloud to client and vice versa and you can have clients on as many computers/phones as you need.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
I just started using Evernote, I've used OneNote for about a year. I have to say that right now OneNote is the better product. I can see that Evernote will surpass OneNote in the future. One feature I wish Evernote had is tooltips, they make learning a new UI much easier.
- Kolomona
@Kolomona - Maybe you'll answer since no one else has yet... what makes OneNote a better product than Evernote in your opinion?
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
I aggree, EverNote is up right now, but I will be intrested to see what happens when Office 14 is released and OneNote has a web version.
- Sean Cantellay
Even if Evernote were the inferior of the two products, it's free and that means a *lot* to us mere mortals.
- Brett Kelly
I use both, but OneNote is so far superior, at least for me. I love all the tabs as that is how my mind works for organization. I access it many times a day and it is portable as the files are stored on a USB drive. I have never been as organized as I am now. Actually I miss some of the features that were in Evernote 2.
- Jim Corkrum
gotta disagree with you here Leo. OneNote is a far far better tool than Evernote. It isn't even a contest. Where Evernote wins is in a client on every platform that allows for syncing. But that's it. As far as i'm concerned the Evernote client itself is weak, regardless of platform.
- Jamie
I can now throw away all those bits of paper after I've taken a snapshot into Evernote (using iClarify for iPhone)
- Daniel Carroll
Evernote is like taking notes in Notepad/Wordpad/Word. Yes it does work...just feels like the rest. But as far as "Stream of Consciousness" type note taking. You want the environment to have very few hard rules. I need to be able to put side notes and draw lines that link one thought with another, WITHOUT having to stop and wonder, well how can I do that. One Note is paper on my screen. Evernote is text in a box. They both work, different styles.
- David Messner
@David Messner if you think Evernote is just text in a box, you've never actually used Evernote. Text in a box is the one thing I have almost never done with Evernote. I email web pages to it, pictures of documents, receipts, pdf's, restaurant menus, tax forms; etc. Anything that I could want to have access to from anywhere. One Note is great and I use it regularly at work. But I can't...
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- Nathan Mylott
Evernote rocks!, That's about it :)
- Rocio Flores
I agree.. been using it for almost a year, paying subscriber.. It's saved my butt on many occasions.
- Randall Hand
I still prefer OneNote. It's easier to organize. Inking feels much better. The thing that really sets it apart is that you can record audio and ink notes at the same time. So when looking back at your notes, you can play the back the audio at the exact moment in time you inked a line. That's very nice to remember why you inked that particular line since you can reference the recorded audio. Plus, I love that you can Print to a Onenote document. I use that all the time.
- Rodfather
You can print to PDF which can go straight into Evernote as well. I don't use voice notes much so that functionality hasn't really been useful to me. As far as being easier to organize info, I disagree because I always felt very stifled by OneNote's tab system (I don't like hierarchical organization systems because my thought process to find a bit of info may not be the same from day to...
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- Lindsay is in 20-ten
I was a diehard OneNote user until I went to Mac OS X and it's the one application I really miss. I liked OneNote better (note how I said that) because it fit better with how I would want to organize written notes. OneNote also scales up better as your notes get longer, more hierarchical, and more detailed. It also has the options to get stuff into the program that Evernote has, but...
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- John Infante
pushing the new Seesmic Desktop 0.2 in a few minutes
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with facebook support?
- sean percival
With seesmic support :)?
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
i see the facebook support, this is AWESOME
- sean percival
RT @FastFoodMaven Free coffee and tea at Peet’s grand opening in Irvine http://tinyurl.com/r7gtkd
Sufian Siddiqi liked this
The Google Reader Snow Leopard theme…this is gorgeous. - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Srikanth AD, Mehdi saberioon, edythe and 28 other people liked this
my favorite skin so far, no doubt
- Zee.
very slick indeed!
- Aline Ohannessian
it's nice. still hate google reader. it's too constricted and abbreviated. feedly is the only way i can check my things on google reader
- Cee Bee
eww.
- Paul Whitaker
prefer to use google reader with feedly.com
- David Foucher
ummmmm like w0w man, very sleek chique n smooth
- Mich D.
Very readable.. Thanks Zee.
- Alan Le
Wow now that's a keeper. Very easy on the eyes.
- Russ Jackson
Looks good but nothing is tearing me away from Feedly now
- Robert Mattar
thanks for pointing this out. My eyes thank you, too, because they prefer dark backgrounds. will try this theme out.
- Dane Findley
@David Foucher Thank you for recommending feedly.com. It's awesome.
- yezi
Cool, thanks!
- David Cook - 2010!!!
Brad Williamson to Brad's feed, Media News and Analysis, Social Media, Social Media Club, RWW: The Future of Tech
Google To Broadcast First Ever Television Ads (Ads embedded in article) - http://www.businessinsider.com/here-co...
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"Google will advertise its Chrome browser on TV, starting this weekend. The ads come from a Web video series the company did called "Chrome Shorts.""
- Brad Williamson
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- Brad Williamson
WOW... These ads are SOOOOO creatively WTF!!! I LOVE'M!
- Brad Williamson
Why aren't they advertising Android phones?
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
and google gets the world.
- Fırat DEMİREL
Hand soap shaped like a real hand: http://blog.craftzine.com/archive... Now you can shake hands with your soap.
edythe, Sufian Siddiqi and MG Siegler liked this
Proposed New Law Says: "Upset Me - Go to Prison!" http://jasoncalacanis.posterous.com/propose...
Sufian Siddiqi and Michael Kaiser liked this
Stupid law. Stupid government that would enact such a law. Sad state of parenting/society.
- Jason Nunnelley
Jason, that is what this society has become! Finding new ways to be offended is treated as positive attribute.
- Michael Kaiser
Could Apple Be Interested in Twitter for Its Halo Effect? | Technomix | Fast Company - http://www.fastcompany.com/blog...
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According to a well-connected Silicon Valley source who spoke with Gawker, and who may have been recruited by Apple for a senior position, Apple and Twitter's management are engaged in serious negotiations. In fact they may be close to sealing a deal for as much as $700 million, with the intention of announcing the purchase at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference in June.
- Leo Laporte
Might be a clever move if they then don't shut out non Apple users in the end.
- Donald Townsend
so apple isn't capitalism 2.0-we still hope for constructive capitalism- may the good are evil too?
- Boris (aka electrouncle)
So now, Apple will get to "approve" each and every tweet before it is sent! :-)
- Rob Smith
Maybe I am just imagining this. But I could have sworn I heard or read somewhere that Twitter was valued much higher. If so Apple is getting a steal.
- Nick O
So, if Twitter has gotten as big as it is by having its famously open API, and Apple is notorious for walling their gardens. How exactly will Apple incorporate Twitter effectively?
- Sunny Molini
Never going to happen; it's ridiculous to discuss.
- Peter
It would be an amazing way for apple to build a community. A community already pre-populated with their users.
- Matthew Snape
$700 million seems way too low. And what could Apple bring that Twitter doesn't already have? Seriously.
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
The power of a thank you: a United Airlines employee personally thanked me and another guy I was sitting next to for being loyal customers. We both looked at each other in amazement. Gives me some ideas for my own career. I don't say thank you enough.
Al Stevens, Andy Werner, Isha (Marysia) and 50 other people liked this
Saying thank you and being polite should be a universal behaviour, not just a Canadian behaviour. ;)
- Chris Luckhardt
Thank you.
- Michael McKean
Thank me very much. ;)
- Craig Eddy
I agree. A simple thank you or expression of appreciation goes a long way.
- Trish R
Thank you!!
- Roberto Bonini
Robert, thank you for that free consulting the other day. I've already implemented some of it.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Sincere thanks shows empathy and respect. Even thanks by protocol (less sincere) _can_ be good, and potentially leads to the real thing - even better. Great thought to share, Robert.
- Micah Wittman
Did the United Airlines employee thank you for your friendfeeds?
- Charbax
Starting at home, too. Maryam does a lot for me and I don't say thank you enough to her.
- Robert Scoble
Apology accepted
- Dave Hodson
It's too easy to take things for granted.
- Michael McKean
Robert, thank you for improving yourself by thanking others more often. ;)
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Saying "please" and "thank you" is always welcome, thanks, Robert. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
A great reminder. Another thing I'm learning is to be more gracious when others say 'thank you' and to say 'you're welcome.' Often, I say 'no problem,' which is kind of self-diminishing and also doesn't convey that they are worth doing a favor for. I don't know if this makes any sense, but I'm trying to train myself.
- joey
One airline used to say "Welcome Mr. xyz as soon as you were on your first class seat and asked what you wanted for a drink ... they have the list of passengers with the frequent flier level. Basic customer service.
- Julio F ~ @SocialJulio
I worked for some folks as a horseback trail guide when I was a kid. Everyday, no matter what, they thanks me for coming in and doing my job. Taught me the power of a thank you from a group that normally takes you for granted (your employer) - the same holds true for thanking customers.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Julio: I have flown 300,000+ miles and hearing thank you is a rare enough occurence that it is notable when it happens.
- Robert Scoble
Wouldn't it be great if @ev said thanks to some of the early adopters who tirelessly promoted Twitter? It struck me when he tweeted from the Time awards dinner thanking his employees. He doesn't get how hard we work, for free, to make him successful.
- Dave Winer
@Dave - do you want some stock or something? If you feel like you need to be recognized and aren't, use another service
- Dave Hodson
"Thank you" is something you don't notice unless it's missing. My previous job I got very few "thank yous" from the management, it was a little upsetting. I still did the work of course but it would have been very nice if people simply replied to mails, for example, with a thank you. It seemed there that that was wasting an email. No it's not! :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
What does being a "loyal customer" mean? I have loyalty to ideals, to my country, to my family ... not so much to companies. There are exceptions, but I don't think any airline would apply ...
- John Koetsier
John: I did 120,000 miles with United last year. That is loyalty.
- Robert Scoble
I had a patient carry business type cards with a lovely verse about how little the world recognizes good service, kind nature and such. I truly was taken for a pause when she gave me one.
- Janet
Janet, that is a fantastic idea.
- joey
Just give thanks that you actually have a career as many do not right now in this country.
- Steve
One of my friends trains dentists and their staffs how to boom their new patient numbers through word-of-mouth referrals without ever saying the "r-word". It's basically done through very well-worded thank you messages. Extremely powerful and the staff absolutely love doing it.
- Hans Eisenman
I agree and the power simple gestures have always amazes me.
- Craig Mische
You are welcome Robert, LMAO
- John (ColderICE)
Funny. My boss's birthday was today. We have to give words of wisdom on our birthday's at work. He told us a story about the importance of thanking and acknowledging.
- amarquart
I think it is easy to forget the times we get good service, because the bad service sticks out so much more. But it is a worthy note to take, pay it forward.
- Patrick Boegel
Steve: I'm always thankful for that. Not to mention that about half the world's people live on $2 a day. I thank my dad for being the first to go to college in our family, get a PHD, and moving me to Silicon Valley. Of course if we had stayed in Jersey maybe I would be working with Gary Vaynerchuk now. That would be fun too!
- Robert Scoble
Awesome! Amazing how something so small can be so big
- Andy A.
Amazing how a simple "Thank You" goes a very long way..
- Ricardo Bueno
Look at all of the positive press UA is getting from this and it didn't cost them a cent! Just good policy and good employees.
- Jeff P. Henderson
When said honestly and properly, thank you can be very powerful. We all should use it more.
- arik
Thank you.
- Jack Humphrey
I like to ask speak to the manager of anyone who has been very helpful to me so that I can request that it be noted how great he or she was.
- metalerik
metalerik, that's great.
- Bruce Lewis
I had a very positive experience the other day after being delayed for five hours and being stranded overnight in Denver (United put me up for the night). About 20 minutes after landing at SFO, I got an apology email with a $250 credit for future travel. http://bit.ly/AMEH4
- Rocky
Robert, thank you.
- Michael Forian
Geeks: A solar powered bench for all your battery and wifi needs - http://thenextweb.com/2009... (via http://friendfeed.com/zee...)
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First 1,000 customers to IKEA in Cost Mesa on Saturday get gift cards ranging $10-$1,000 http://ocdeals.freedomblogging.com
Sufian Siddiqi liked this
I got a new R0DE microphone for my Canon 5D MKII. Sure makes a difference to audio quality when shooting HD video. Highly recommended.
Roberto Bonini, Sufian Siddiqi, Alex Scoble and Dan Krivolavek liked this
Is that on a boom, attached to cam or set on the table or what ?
- Thomas Bøhm
The entire R0DE line is great.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
I think just moving the mic out of the camera body makes a difference.
- Robert Hafer
Tim O'Reilly - Why Twitter Matters for News - O'Reilly Radar http://radar.oreilly.com/2009...
Mark Gunnels, Thomas Power, Andrew and 6 other people liked this
I'm going to say it again - CNN should do a co-branded cast using Twitter as real-time ticker. Use their anchors to parse, expand. Gives Twitter some real ad dollars, puts CNN in the hip seat for a moment. All day long they pump Twitter, either they are willingly giving the win to Twitter for real-time or they are thinking about doing some co-venture.
- michael sean wright
The Ultimate Mac Setup for Web Designers (60 Apps) #mac - http://mac.appstorm.net/roundup...
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Nicholas James, Daniel Rowley, zsafwan and 6 other people liked this
Excellent listing of apps. I use most of those :)
- Sufian Siddiqi
Eight chips stacked -- more memory for cell phones (photo): - http://ourdoings.com/roberts...
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Sunil Kaul, CEO of Vertical Circuits, Inc shows me their tech which has eight chips stacked one on top of another. Who said Silicon Valley is dead? This guy proves it is not.
- Robert Scoble
Say hi, I am trying to get him on friendfeed.
- Robert Scoble
That looks like it will need cooling.
- Parth Awasthi
when can we expect to get such technology in our hands
- Arvind
Hi Sunil, nice chips you have there :)
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
I'd like my chips stacked like that
- Harrison Powers
Interesting.... is this vertical (3d) memory??? Or just normal RAM chips stacked???
- Roberto Bonini
the website [ http://www.verticalcircuits.com/ ] says the the company has pioneered VIP ( vertical interconnect pillar ) technology that enables manufacturers to produce stacked ICs as this one..
- Arvind
Hi
- RAPatton
Robert, come check out ZipTronix http://www.ziptronix.com/ in Research Triangle Park, NC
- Jay Cuthrell
Wouldn't more chips mean less phone battery life?
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Bruce: not necessarily.
- Robert Scoble
wasn't there a cluster/super computer group working on building blades w/ multiple mobile chips in them?
- clarke thomas
Arvind: they are expecting these chips to be in cell phones beginning later this year. Parth: these are flash memories, so don't need much cooling. If they tried to do processors like that, yes, they would need cooling. Roberto: yes, this is vertical/3D memory. Jay, would love to come out to Research Triangle Park sometime.
- Robert Scoble
Why do we need more storage? And why do we need it to be smaller? I can already get an 8GB micro-SD card for <$12. Exactly what problem are they solving?
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
Steve: I have a 32GB card in my Canon 5D Mark II and it's not enough. We ALWAYS need more storage. Especially when the world moves to HD video.
- Robert Scoble
But, are you wiling to pay for it? This seems like a "twice the storage at 3 times the cost" type of solution, and cost is the dominating factor in storage these days. I'm sure there are a few places where "size is king" but I still assert that "cost is king".
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
Steve: if you gave me 64GB I would pay 3x more than 32 cost me. How do you know this to be true? Because I do it every year.
- Robert Scoble
Yeah, but you're totally outside the norm. I'm not disagreeing that there's a market for really fracking expensive (and dense) flash memory, I'm just saying that the market is pretty small, especially considering that Moore's law isn't on these guys' side.
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
I don't agree. The market continually brings new things that we pay a lot more for. You are sounding like that guy who said that 640KB is enough for everyone! :-)
- Robert Scoble
I will never again pay more than $12 for any removable flash storage, this is likely true. :)
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
Does this guys tech give faster read & write speeds due to the chip-level parallelism? That would be worth paying extra for, especially for SSD-esque applications.
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
Steve: no, but it's cheaper to manufacture than other 3D techniques (they use silver to make the interconnects, where other companies use gold wires).
- Robert Scoble
Wow, the Union Bank of California in Menlo Park is strangely paranoid
Sufian Siddiqi, Rebecca Sun, topo and 25 other people liked this
A WaMu bank near where I used to live in Hollywood had these. Only time I had ever seen that. Even the BofA that got robbed every other Friday afternoon didn't have this.
- Admiral Anika
I've never seen this at a bank. If I did, I would consider switching.
- Cristo
I think the people who own this bank have seen too many bank robbery movies.
- Gabe
Or they may have lost your savings.
- Jérôme Flipo
I saw that at another WaMu (now Chase) branch in Van Nuys; I bank with UBOC and their office in San Luis Obispo is NOT like that - but then, the only rash of bank robberies in the area in the last few years was by a gang "imported" from L.A.
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
Yeah, they have this at a WAMU here, which is odd since Oakland is such a safe area. I can't remember the last time there was even a candy bar stolen from a grocery store here
- Becca
Maybe this policy would have slowed the AIG meltdown
- Darin Andersen
Yeah, can't have people coming in to steal fiat currency that is not backed by gold and that government can print more of at any time.
- Morton Fox
Darin. It would have if the policy was enforced upon AIG executives.
- Gregg Scott
Ummm... Every bank here in South Africa has these. I find myself actually more amused by the general "oh what a strange idea" reaction of commenters here than by the actual picture. Bit sad, I know.
- Andy Kruger
@Oli_White they need an "edit tweet" feature like FriendFeed has..
Gordon Saunders, Sufian Siddiqi and Jérôme Flipo liked this
Noteboek on Vimeo -- coolest video I've seen in a long time. Thanks Jared Spool for sharing this! - http://vimeo.com/4116727...
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David Erickson, Faethon Koussouris, Cem Ozkaynak and 84 other people liked this
Really excellent.
- Michelle McCormack
White Stripes!!
- Michelle McCormack
That is one impressive notebook. Crazy dutch.
- Mitch
Amazing! I am envious of this person's creativity. :)
- Cheryl Jones
I want one. For real.
- phil baumann
As I watched, I was hoping the system time would update, but it never did.
- Robert Peña
Take on Me Noteboek: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- David Newman
If only my notebook started as fast or shutdown as quick!
- Shivanand Velmurugan
I like the face scan! :)
- dafire
very clever!
- Kevin Eklund
Cool!
- Tony C
Wow. This one merits a triple-like button.
- Eric Johnson
Fun video made with Google Latitude -- when is iPhone version coming? Friendfeeders will enjoy this one. - http://services.google.com/latitud...
Kevin Tunis, MikeAmundsen, Maryam and 40 other people liked this
Neat video from the folks at Google. Google Latitude is quite nice, but one problem: it crashes on my Nokia phone because of a bug with too many friends. It looks like they might have fixed that, at least on Android. I gotta get myself a G Phone.
- Robert Scoble
from Bookmarklet
Fun thing is this video is fake. You can spell out anything you want (click on create). Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
aww thanks for spoiling the secret robert ;-)
- Chris Heath
Fake or not it's a fun concept.
- Brian Acklen
Chris: I'm a spoilsport. Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
somebody has an imagination!
- tom
agreed Brian
- Chris Heath
Hah! That's fantastic.
- Jeffrey Marsh
rad! waiting anxiously for the iPhone version...
- metalerik
...just reminds you of how cool a city San Francisco is!
- .LAG liked that
didn't google say that an iphone app would probably never come out w/o apple's special approval (because it needs to background and even the new 3.0 firmware won't allow what latitude needs)?? ... all because of battery life, right?
- Chris Heath
the "fakery" is all my fault (and without the knowledge or endorsement of the Latitude folks, btw). I actually think it's pretty darn clever and funny how they created this viral option. It got me to "make" and send videos not only to Friendfeed, but also to a bunch of friends, too. :)
- Adam Lasnik
Man, I almost didn't click this link to see this cool video, even if it's fake. Too good.
- Kevin Elliott
This is really cute!!!!!! LOVE it - Thanks @Adam :) you guys rock!!
- Susan Beebe
When I read the headline, I thought Google had launched a competitor to Seesmic with geodata!
- Pat Hawks
Nice. But latitude is never that accurate. At least on my G1 phone. It usually has me in the center of a few mile radius.
- Matt Soreco
Hey Matt, I swear I'm not meaning this as a "did you plug it in?" prompt, but... sometimes it can be easy forget to turn GPS on on the G1 (I don't think it's the default). Have you checked? It may just be using (much less accurate) non-GPS methods of determining location.
- Adam Lasnik
#mac Apple readies iChat video answering machine - http://www.techradar.com/news...
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"Apple has filed a patent for a video answering machine for its iChat VOIP application, amid speculation that the feature will appear as part of the Mac OS X upgrade dubbed Snow Leopard. The patent application, unearthed by Apple Insider, shows users being able to record outgoing video or audio messages for use when they're busy on other calls or away from their computer."
- Amani
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