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"Will you be streaming the event?" - Tom

she's just a love machine - Tom

"Actually you don't need an app for that. Twitter lists could be presented within ad units already, no need to wait in the iPhone app store queue. On iPhones JavaScript comes native to the Safari browser, so you can have a scrolling list of tweets from a list e.g. TNT's NBA running in an expandable banner, and you can offer oAuth twitter connect features if the user would like to follow the Twitter list. I'm not going to switch from Tweetie and there's no need for a brand to compete on usability. I have to go call Turner now. Thanks!" - Tom

"The WiFi argument is problematic, but remember that black market iPhones also do not have iTunes or the App Store. http://j.mp/rC16l" - Tom

"I had an idea for using open subtitles to make reality tv global. I have no interest in watching US reality tv, but how much fun would it be to see reality tv from other countries?" - Tom

"I use a google talk --> friendfeed stream that has a badge on my blogger blog for link storage, bookmarking songs on pandora, and sharing stuff that is unexpectedly from me - stuff that has nothing to do with my interests, which is what people on twitter would want to see from me. Therefore twitter --> facebook which gets updates about me, links that have to do with my interest, retweets from people I follow etc. And facebook gets the same, but sometimes I post directly to facebook for personal photos, videos and other stuff that I only want friends to see. And then every once in a while I update my status on linkedin if I do something careerworthy or write a post on a real news site." - Tom

Reversed subsidy is nice, but you generally can't switch from China Mobile to China Unicom, it's a geographic limitation. - Tom

Reversed subsidy is nice, but you generally can't switch from China Mobile to China Unicom, it's a geographic limitation. - Tom

"Love slide 6 (trading places) and slide 9 (times sq red line newstand?). Anyclip comes to mind in terms of how our media obsession turns into an engine for new business models. I'm not sure if slide 12, factor 6, the nyc lifestyle is a strong enough photo... To me NYC is the most data intensive city. NYC's population are the heaviest users and providers of data for meeting scheduling, bar hopping, sports checking, restaurant critiquing, work emailing, calorie counting, and multiplicity of check-ins each day. I feel that the sample of data and relevance of that data to a population does not exist even in SF let alone the valley. There's a reason that foursquare and meetup started and thrive in NYC and it's not just to get people away from their computers, it's because they already are, and NYC is the city that's tracking that behavior best." - Tom

great ideas charlie. - Tom

"Max: "Where's the bar?" Ian: "Bar!"" - Tom

"Reid Hoffman's feedback on distribution is instructive, and I think to be a winner anyclip will need to open up an API and let others experiement with distribution -here are some ideas for how to make that distribution better. http://www.uwsjournal.com/2009......" - Tom

"this is a useful clip, but also need the companion that includes "well listen to this!!!!"" - Tom

I've seen this, but usually it goes back to the good old whale when you refresh. - Tom

Apps that help you find movie and TV clips to share. They could come from movie studios, Hulu, Funny or Die etc. There needs to be a better movie quote search API in place to make this work well on both the desktop and mobile, but it could be quite cool, and could end up being plugins for existing apps like Shazam, or IM clients as well. Here are some more ideas: http://www.uwsjournal.com/2009... - Tom from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Apps that help you find movie and TV clips to share. They could come from movie studios, Hulu, Funny or Die etc. There needs to be a better movie quote search API in place to make this work well on both the desktop and mobile, but it could be quite cool, and could end up being plugins for existing apps like Shazam, or IM clients as well. Here are some more ideas: http://www.uwsjournal.com/2009... - Tom from FriendFeed MT Plugin

"Kavalier and Clay, Atlas Shrugged both not on kindle!" - Tom

"New Work City @ 200 Varick" - Tom

"ah nice work! I didn't know that it was optimized for mobile and will check out streampad now. If your platform can handle mobile optimization on all subdomains, then the only value of using m.website.com is just to market to the consumer that they should not be afraid of looking at the site on their phones. And to me it's not a question; hopefully soon all sites wil be run on device aware platforms so they can render different style sheets." - Tom

"So far there's really only one site that I know of that has thought of the architecture to the point of making desktop and mobile work by offering different 'feels' or style sheets. That is Flickr, which redirects to m.flickr.com if you click on a shared link in an email, on twitter etc. Device intelligence is key, as is the architecture with the ability to logically shift users between optimized experiences. The best way to think about it is to first look at how people interact with the site - via tv remote, scroll buttons, or touchscreen, and then optimize the style to the screensize." - Tom

Retail usually has profits of about 5%. Which means out of a billion in sales, Zappos only kept $50,000,000, out of which they had to pay rent, employees, benefits, etc. So, when you see that the purchase price was about $900 million in stock, that makes sense considering the smaller $50 million in real revenue number. - Robert Scoble

So, I fear for Zappos - PXLated

"Actually, the iPhone 3GS loads mobile websites much much much faster. Even though twitter's mobile website is behind the times, if they upgraded to an iPhone optimized site it may even load faster than the basic xhtml version of m.twitter.com. Apple told us that the 3GS processes javascript 3x faster and you can really see that on sites that are optimized for the iPhone. However, I'm thinking Fred that you were inspired to write this because SMS is the cheapest way to update sites while you're in Europe, no? This was what I found when I was in China back in May, I hadn't used Twitter's 40404 shortcode to send out a message in probably a year (but I still use it to get DMs). Flat Data plans are about as American as Apple Pie. :)" - Tom

"As I mentioned in the comments on tech crunch, any publisher can enable location on their mobile website, not just google! And, this can be used for location aware ad units. Email me tom [at] crispwireless [dot] com or tweet @toms for a demo." - Tom

"So the 'magic window' is cool to me because AR apps are specifically focusing on how to mash layers of data together - like try to get Zagat ratings out of Zagat and onto a dynamically located dot that hovers over the building you are facing. Of course there are problems with the concept of AR because it complicates views rather than simplifies them, which makes for clugy or slow UXs and in some cases makes the data alignment with the compass tough. Ok, so there are a lot of problems! But these experiments in complicating the view is to potentially eliminate steps in the way we navigate the world. You don't have to go out to the browser, you don't have to tab-toggle, or open another app that has a different part of the puzzle. Of course, virtual reality is trying to do even more, I just think AR is interesting at this time because it is lighter than full virtual reality, and people are not expecting thriller resolution if the app can show you a moonwalk. It's not a second life, it's..." - Tom

Live from New York!! - Tom

doesn't work "该转帖已删除" - Tom

I'm on hyves! - Tom

This is exactly what friendfeed needs to start really competing with twitter. - Tom

Smoke less potent pot Robert. ;) - Rolf Schewe

Not paranoid. Now ME, I'm caesium standard Paranoid!!! - pazzer1

It's striking how far Firefox has come - remember that it was originally the lighter, simpler alternative to the more fully-featured Mozilla suite, and as a result became wildly more popular. I feel strongly that the browser should be invisible; it's a facilitator for the web. As soon as you start adding other functionality, for example identity, you begin placing more and more limits... more... - Ben Werdmuller from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Fantastic. That means that we can't wait for the applications to change the web. That means that without the efforts of the browsers, they won't be real social web. And, if you ask me, I'm so glad the Mozilla Foundation is the one building all this! And, as for Flock, i've been using it some times ago, and didn't convince me at all. - Zackatoustra from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Marshall, How come we see the promise of browsers on the desktop as clear as capitalism over communism, but for the past year the future of mobile is apps, apps, apps and specifically not the browser? Articles like yours and the link below about how gaming consoles like xbox and playstation might start to appear in-browser show an almost sure win for browsers, and once the iPhone 3.0 drops with better HTML 5 support even location will work; it already does for the pre and android. any thoughts? http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article... - Tom from FriendFeed MT Plugin