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Susan: I was sober when I wrote these. Just having fun! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Everything's better with bacon. - dthree

did you know you can make a lot of money trading options, buying and selling stocks, buying foreclosed homes, using secrets to sell stuff online, ebay is a wonderland for making money, and then of course you can just get free money from the government - Allen Stern

It's keeping me from getting the Swine flu from the rest of the family - keep it up! ;-) - Jesse Stay

it is 3:23 am. - Allen Stern

I wonder if Robert has seen me in the dress yet *sexy wink at Scoble* - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

more h1 than n1? :) - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq

Did someone say: B-A-C-O-N!! - WarLord

I'm thinking of a Don Henley song. Can you guess which one? - Donald C. Lindsay

You mean world peace right? <3 FWD: Bacon Brings World Peace and Why RSS is No Longer a Necessity - http://mona.posterous.com/bacon-b... (via http://ff.im/b7kGF) - sofarsoShawn

Re: RSS, yet RSS/Atom are still the easiest ways to build a real-time content distribution system today - Jesse Stay

Bacon is good. I like bacon. - Jason Huebel

one can never have too much bacon. what's the problem? - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

nice post, again, Jason. :) - imabonehead

I would have to disagree with some of the claims: I have friends with Android updates, and friends who hold back on "buggy" iPhone updates. There are remarkable iPhone apps, but there is absolute garbage as well (I have friends with iPhones jealous of apps like PicSay), the approval process is not a mark of quality as much as maintaining control by Apple. Repeated applications plague the app store as well. - DMKrow

You're referring to people who have rooted their devices, allowing them to update at will. I'm talking about a device that will compete with the iPhone-- that the average consumer would agree is as good as an iPhone. The average consumer will never root a phone. And Android /is/ usable. I'm not saying it isn't. But it's still well behind the iPhone in many ways. As for "maintaining... more... - Jason Huebel

The Android Market is an absolute disaster area... still. It's only gotten incrementally better since it debuted, but the Apps have improved somewhat. Pick your gems (there's plenty) and be happy with your Android PHONE, get an iPod Touch for games and other Apple App coolness (music, etc.). - Adrian

meh. I'm a one device kinda guy. I'll stick with my Droid and make it work. Like you said, there are some gems in the Market. It's just a PITA to find them. - Jason Huebel

Have you checked out Google Sky yet? - Adrian

I've installed it, but haven't looked at it yet. I'm still in the migration mode from the iPhone. - Jason Huebel

Give it whirl when you get a chance at night, I'd be interested to hear how it runs on the Droid. - Adrian

WOW. It looks awesome. Unfortunately it's overcast outside, so I can't verify how accurate it is. - Jason Huebel

And to answer your question, it runs really well. High framerate, responds well to direction and angle changes while looking around. - Jason Huebel

The maps are accurate, it all depends on the accuracy of the compass in your particular model I suppose. It's a bit off on my G1, but I just callibrate visually since the patterns match. It's very nifty indeed! I would imagine it's quite spectacular on the larger, higher res screen.... you lucky dog, you! - Adrian

haha I like that image! - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

I try to avoid following someone on Twitter if they are on FF and posts their tweets here. I share the same wish for Google Reader though, the ability to follow someone but selectively based on sources they share. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Being a Friendfeed-Twitter user myself, I understand your concerns, but I think that the majority of my Twitter followers benefit from being redirected to Friendfeed, because I can use more than 140 chars here to properly comment the link I share there. Plus, Friendfeed avoids repeating the Twitter links when they come from Ffeed, so users here don't get the same link twice. I think... more... - Jordi Soler

The superiority of this program made me choose it over twitter i nthe first place. - Jeremy

Jodi, sure but you can't get away from the duplication. - Kol Tregaskes

For instance, if you could hide "Twitterfeed" or "API", you would be in great shape. - Louis Gray

Louis, yep, though "API" might help tweets from apps like Seesmic Desktop and Tweetdeckm etc? - Kol Tregaskes

How so, Kol? I don't see any duplicated items in my feed, and I'm redirecting them to Twitter. Maybe I'm missing something... - Jordi Soler

No, no, duplication from a user's Twitter feed and their FriendFeed feed. I only need to see it once (preferably on FF) and don't need to see it again on Twitter. So I would like to hit, for instance, any tweets from the FF API in Seemsic Desktop for my Twitter List users. - Kol Tregaskes

Kol, isn't it easier to stop following somebody on Twitter who imports their Twitter feed into FriendFeed? That way you only ever see the tweet once. - Keith Bennett from BuddyFeed

@Keith that's my point! - Jordi Soler

I prefer to follow tweets in Seesmic Desktop and everything else in FF. Users who tweet their FF posts also tweet as normal and that's what I would like in Seesmic Desktop only. - Kol Tregaskes

Kol I just don't "get" seesmic and return to FF over and over again - Thomas Power

For me it makes things a lot easier, like RTs, reporting spam, DMings (can't do on FF anyway) and faving tweets. I can also see my Twitter Lists and mentions, which I cannot do properly on FF. - Kol Tregaskes

Kol you are clearly a far more advanced user than I, any chance you can do a video on how use Seesmic so I can learn from you? Loic assumes we have so much knowledge and you only discover it by clicking which I guess I haven't yet. Thx for the tips KT. TPx - Thomas Power

I wish I had the spare time. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

sorry to ask I know you haven't got time - Thomas Power

I wish I could install android os on iPhone like bootcamp is used for windows on mac os snow leopard. - ashish

AS A PRODUCT...can it fail as something else? - Ahmed Fathalla

Ahmed, I believe Robert is trying to distinguish between the product and the platform. - Louis Gray

Seems strange that after more than 2 years nobody has been able to top the iPhone. This speaks very high of Apple ...and very low of the rest. - Jordi Soler

I read in FT about Android OS that there was update known as 1) cupcake 2) Donut 3) Eclair and now speculation, 4)some bakery product beginning F and then 5)something beginning with G, probably "GPhone" ? I hope that update will bring something to cheer. - ashish

I forgot to add that the next Android update is called "Flan". - ashish

ashish, great deduction there... it's well known that their OS codenames have been derived from pastry... and one could also assume that the alpha and beta OS versions were pastries starting with the letters a and b, respectively, of course. - Chris Heath

Droid may not live up to the iPhone standard. But, to the extent all platforms are innovating to catch up to Apple, we all benefit from better products. - Chris Rogers

Here is the link to the FT article- http://www.ft.com/cms... - ashish

FT fail http://friendfeed.com/ccheath... - Chris Heath

Sorry, Just go the Google and type "Google starts to reap rewards of smartphone openness" without the quotes and it should display the webpage without any hassle. - ashish

Background material: http://www.cyberpotato.net/... - Michael Slattery

That's too bad. Verizon is my current carrier and I'm overdue to upgrade my phone. I'm a Mac fan and would love to own an iPhone but there's no way I'm putting up with AT&T's bad coverage to do it. - Spidra Webster

As I told Mahrendra, I could make my numbers look a lot better by reducing my feed by thousands of followers, and thereby increasing my ratio. - Louis Gray

My "respect ratio" is 29. Do I get a prize? - Sarah is Novembery

My Twitter List weigh-in: http://sharisax.com/2009... - Shari Weiss

And as I replied to Louis, anyone can game Twitter, and he doesn't need to anyway. :) - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Nice post Mahrendra. I have noticed people with >50k followers on 6/8 lists and those with 500 followers on 20 lists. When I've checked them out, all those accounts with the massive follower counts were basically using Twitter as a broadcast medium. Thanks for the post. - Jim Connolly