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is wondering when Apple will release the Google Voice app or approve/enable the ones that we've been using [gvmobile]?
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10 simple yet Fresh iPhone Apps - http://www.rxfresh.com/rxfresh...
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I had to laugh at the Type n Walk app. I mean, it's really kind of brilliant, because it is actually difficult to type and walk at the same time; I know, I've tried it. But on the other hand, isn't kind of sad that someone saw fit to make an app for that purpose? :P
- Jamie Mack
In find it quite funny that an increasing number of my contacts in my address book that I either call, email or text are non-human. Whether it's calling GOOG411, texting ChaCha or emailing Evernote I'm using communication channels that have been typically been only used for human to human interaction.
Lido Paglia, CW™, Ward Seward and 6 other people liked this
The ones in my email address book are Twitter, FriendFeed and Tumblr (I think, but I rarely use Tumblr any more). The only one in my phone contacts is Twitter, and the only IM bot contact I have is FriendFeed
- LANjackal
I actually place all my online accounts as separate contacts in my address book with their logo...kind of geeky
- Mike Bracco
I don't know what I'd do without Goog411. Ever since I added it to my address book it has enabled me to take care of business when away from the computer in a way I've never done before. Freedom!
- Miss Elle
I'd say that might be the plan. If so, it is working, imo.
- Carolyn Wood
Thanks for mentioning ChaCha. I had never heard of that one before. I put it on my phone right away!
- Ward Seward
This is really interesting to think about. I personally don't have this experience at all, but you may be onto something here...
- Zach Landes
What are the top 10 apps I should load on the new iPhone 3GS? I started out clean. More here, please tell me what you suggest here:
Judd6149, Hiroaki Masaki, Vin Turk and 79 other people liked this
I've already loaded Facebook, Google, Evernote, and TweetDeck. Which apps are MUST HAVES. Only suggest apps you actually often use. I filled up my old iPhone with too many apps I never used.
- Robert Scoble
You should definitely get Pandora on there.
- Conway Anderson
Things. Best task manager I've ever used. I use it so often that I moved it to the bar along the bottom.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Not sure if you are considering games, but Peggle is a great one. You can play for two minutes while waiting in line, or for an hour on the train.
- Kevin Carey
Kevin: I'm not a big gamer, but would like to try out a couple.
- Robert Scoble
Try the AP mobile news app to try out push notifications.
- George Deane
Robert, you might also consider Blocked. It's a quick-play, no-impact puzzle game.
- Akiva Moskovitz
when will we have a friend feed app, i like camerabag
- Eran Even-Kesef
If you ever come to the UK, the National Rail Enquiries app is awesome. Can't live with out it now.
- Roberto Bonini
I got Tuner so I could listen to Leo on the go. ;) Also just installed HeyWAY, might be interesting for you. Games: How about Star Defense?
- Holger Eilhard
Try Snap2Twitter for tweeting photos - they just updated with geotagging...will compliment the new autofocus feature!
- Tom Parnell
Peggle, without question. Best game on the iPhone.
- Josh Bancroft
Nintaii, Stanza, Evernote, Tweetie/Twitterfon, Banner Free, Flight Control
- Vineet Bhatnagar
Remote - for controlling music through my home stereo system
- joeszabo
I know you upload to Flickr... Try Flickit. You can upload your iPhone 3G S images with ease.
- Jason Hansen
You definitely need the Read It Later app, extremely useful
- Antonio Montero
Check out Numbrosia, an original and addictive number puzzle. (Yes, I developed it.)
- Amir Michail
Instapaper. Great for those times when you don't have any internet. Also, Stanza for ebooks and Shazam to find out what a song you're currently hearing is.
- Leon Freyermuth
Definitely want to see a Friendfeed App
- Keven Elliff
I'd say Tweetie over TweetDeck. TweetDeck is still kind of crashtastic. Still waiting for my iPhone 3G S to be delivered! Analytics app, WordPress app, FlickIt (for sending full res pictures to flickr), Pandora, Kindle for iPhone, Scrabble (connects to Facebook FTW), Evernote, Peggle, Skype, Shazam
- C. K. Sample III
I would think Pandora, but that's just me
- Spirit 2.0
Keven: I second that, although MotherFeed isn't too bad.
- John Fox
BeeJive IM is one I can't live without. Also Skype, Sonic, Flight Control and Last.Fm
- Jono Russell
TweetDeck, Pandora, Dictionary, FStream (I use it to listen to live.twit.tv when I'm away from my computer) and Colloquy (IRC client).
- 321
if you like to be in the photo - check out fototimer - I have used it quite a few times
- Eduardo Merille
BeejiveIM and Stanza/Kindle are my two most used ones you haven't already added.
- Antonio Zahra
You should get Twitterrific, AP Mobile, Flixster, What's On, Pandora, Dictionaire, Instapaper, TWC, Asphalt 4, and Shakespeare.
- Alexander
Evernote, Instapaper, Tweetie, Facebook, Last.fm, RTM, Satchel, Beejive IM and some games or something.
- Brett Kelly
it would be nice if someone took this whole list and did a review of the actual top 10 3.0 apps.
- Amir
Def prefer Twittelator Pro for tweeting. Pano is pretty cool for panoramic photo stitching in-camera. Pandora is a keeper. Free Memory or iStat could be crucial for killing runaway bg processes. HoldEm is the only game I end up returning to. Good advice on overloading. Better to overload with podcasts and tunes!
- Laura Scott (@lauras)
I'll cast more votes for Things and FlickIt - both superb. 1Password is great for digital wallet / password manager purposes, although, like Things no Windows client - you need to be happy with Mac and iPhone. Animoto is a great app for knocking together slide shows really quickly. Autostitch is nice for stitching together several photos for a panoramic effect. If you ever do voice...
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- Patrick Jordan
Pandora, Shazam, Boombox, Flashlight, TWiT.am, LaTwit, craigsphone, Units, Carpenter, & NYTimes -- I also have homescreen bookmarks for Wolfram|Alpha, FriendFeed, Wunderground, & GMail
- Chris Heath
Kevin, there are several already. I've been playing around with amigo lately.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Things, reQall, Weightbot, GroceryGadget, Photogene, iFlashReady, SpeedTest
- Ronald Barnett
Shazam - it listens to a song playing and identifies it for you. Use it surprisingly often when listening to the radio or in a business when music is playing. Very accurate. The majority of apps on my iPhone I never use...
- Steve de Mena
the only one I didn't see mention on this that I use all the time is I.TV
- Kim Landwehr
Cardstar- stores your membership/reward cards that can be scanned right from the iphone screen. I actually use this often.
- Ryan Erickson
TweetDeck for the iPhone is NOT the best tweeting application. It uses up too much API, although I would still have it on my iPhone just to look at every now and then. Twitterrific is definitely the 5-star app ever since it realized its 2.0 version. TweetDeck is only a 3.5 to 4 star app in my mind.
- Alexander
That vibrator one that was posted on FF yesterday somewhere.
- Steve C
1Password. I can't live without it on my Mac and my iPhone. Tweetie, Pandora, Fieldrunners (still love this game), GV Mobile for Google Voice. Many more above are great as well.
- Kelly Sims
SportsTap. I'm not a huge sports fan, but the ability to set favorite teams and get real time updates is great. Hopefully they'll put out a new version for 3.0 with push notifications.
- Carlton Prest
BuddyFeed, Tweetie, Skype, AccuWeather, AirSharing
- Susan Beebe
Top 10 iPhones apps IMHO are: Twitterific or TweetDeck, Facebook, The Weather Channel, Evernote, AP Mobile - links to Twitter, FB & Evernote, Air Video & Off, Midomi I like over Shazam, Stanza - books & RSS feeds,
- Robin Birkel
Photogene -- very cool photo editing application
- RobinDotNet
Here's one that is a must for you: PangeaVR: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Orli Yakuel
i.TV for sure :)
- Justin Whittaker
Try out Gokivo - the first TBT navigation app for the iPhone. We are excited to finally be able to launch our app on the iPhone.
- Mark Goddard
from BuddyFeed
Facebook, Tweetdeck, Pandora and NYT. If you want games then try the Flight Control app.
- Asgod Barrantes
I think I might have too much time - here is a count of the apps mentioned so far:Pandora 9 Evernote 7 TweetDeck 6 Stanza 4 Tweetie 4 Shazam 4 Facebook 4 BeeJive IM 3 Skype 3 Flickit 3 Things 3 Flight Control 3 Instapaper 3 Kindle 3 NYTimes 2 Peggle 2 AP Mobile 2 I.TV 2 Photogene 2 Twitterific 2 1Password 2 Last.fm 2 TWiT.am 1 Shakespeare 1 Peggle 1 AirSharing 1 Star Defense 1 Eye-Fi 1...
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- Ryan Barnett
TWC is The Weather Channel, so there have actually been 2 TWC recommendations
- Alexander
New to iphone but was a Touch user for a long time - I have many of these apps already - some new ones to check out now also. I just restored from my ipod Touch backup and all my existing apps came over. They seem to be working OK. Question - is it possible to rename my iphone as it now says it is my ipod Touch?
- Tony Vota
Yes, you just right-click on the name of the iPod on the right-hand side in iTunes and select rename.
- Leon Freyermuth
Trailguru, Sportacular, Livestrong, Foursquare all make my front page
- Ryan Barnett
SnapTell, 9-toolbox, Flixster
- Chad McCoskey
@leonf - Got it. Thanks. It was actually a double left click to select and rename.
- Tony Vota
I'd swear by Remember The Milk as a task manager. Outside the built in apps, this is my most reliable and useful app, and there's an imminent update that I'm hoping will include push notifications. Other than that, my most oft used are Beejive IM, Kindle, Byline (for Google Reader syncing), Strands, Facebook and TweetDeck. And I'm posting this through a new FriendFeed app: AlertThingy which seems pretty awesome.
- Owen
from Alert Thingy
Must have for me is : Camera bag(Must have), Facebook, Tweetie and/or Tweetdeck(Not too stable), BeeJive IM, Shazam, Evernote, Airsharing, Urbanspoon, Remote for Keynote, Google Reader Web and GTalk Web.
- shadow
Must try HeyWAY... Cool app
- Mike Diaz
Oh yeah, and Documents to Go (Exchange edition) is proving very useful, just needs xls editing and MobileMe iDisk access.
- Owen
from Alert Thingy
@techsavvyguru - No problem. I just thought the right-click and select rename method was easier to explain. That does work, doesn't it? I haven't tried it in awhile.
- Leon Freyermuth
Great question, tons of valuable answers here.. very nice :)
- Susan Beebe
Evernote, tweetie, facebook, motherfeed, camerabag and camerakit
- Thomas Chai
RssPlayer is my most used app.
- Christian Burns
Why Jared, of course!
- Daniel Krech
another vote for Weather Channel and the radar videos. Also Bloomberg for stocks and Checkbook for jotting down expenses to be entered into Quicken later.
- Sarah Miller
Agree you need to add Skype, BeeJive, and Pandora. I also like Todo and NYTimes. Just getting my head wrapped around TweetDeck for iPhone; been using Tweetie up to now.
- Scotty Perkins
I'm setting mine up right now. I can't believe how well it works here! Thanks for asking this question here. This is my first iPhone, so I need all the advice I can get. I love this phone!
- Michael Fidler
iFart, iBeer and the iphone star wars sword. The most popular iphone apps.
- Charbax
I can't believe no one mentioned Yelp. I use it all the time, especially here in the bay area where you live.
- Sam Pullara
surprised no one mentioned truphone - skype and push notification support
- Riaz Kanani
'Things' is a daily go-to workhorse of an application, One of the best values in the app store.
- Dean Kakridas
Remember the Milk, Bloomberg, Evernote, PCalc, Amazon, the Wearher Channel
- Robert Hafer
appsniper
- Jay Clark
I know this is lame: but I am addicted to the "Blowfish" game we downloaded for our kids. Trust me - it's very addicting. Weather Channel best weather app IMHO. Shazam. BuddyFeed. LinkedIn. Skype.
- Curt Mercadante
Reisertris!
- Vezquex: God of FF
More votes for Photogene, Bloomberg and Weather Channel. ShoZu. USA Today. Is Urban Spoon a must? Not sure, but it came in handy when I was traveling.
- MiniMage, sheeple of FF
Instapaper
- Steve Rubel
Evernote, Red Delicious,Skype, Google Voice Search, FaceBook,Yelp, BrightKite, Domain Tool, iSSH, and FTPOnTheGo are a few good ones to start with.
- Mike Elliott
FLASHLIGHT
- Rochelle
Get the "What Apps Should I Download" app...LOL
- Acoustic Randall
I would but I ask you about a month ago in email what camera should I take on my bike you never answered back. But here are some ideas good mapping gps, google search, evernote. Now how about a camera pick please.
- Darren Lowery
thirsty pocket, Tweetdeck, phoneflix, shazm,skype,facebook,google mobile,mint,yelp and iwant
- Sai
Kindle, Shazam, trade Tweetdeck for Tweetie, FB, PageOnce for your bank accounts, Evernote, Google, and Wordpress. What's amazing about your list is that there's a lot of overlap among all the omments above considering how many iPhone apps exist. Very Few rise above the noise.
- Francine Hardaway
You need BeejiveIM and TweetDeck, that is all.
- David Ford
WeatherBug Elite, BBCReader, NYTimes, WSJ, Bloomberg
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
One thing that wasn't mentioned - don't fall for the trap of downloading apps just because they exist. You only need an app if it doesn't something the website can't (GPS, great graphics, etc.). Too many of these suggestions are just apps that do the same thing as the regular website.
- Kevin Carey
Nambu for all things Twitter. Password. Google. Conversion. Linked In. NetNewsWire. iFirstAid. Flashlight. Wordpress. Currency. Dictionary. Level. A good, local weather application.
- Greg Smith @ PR Lab
See here: http://www.flickr.com/photos... First Page: Yahoo, Google, NYT, Bloomberg, WSJ, Thomson Reuters News Pro, HuffPost, AP, and Yelp. Second Page (Not shown): Black and White (aka Go), Smugmug, Weather Channel, and Fandango. Have tried and removed: Evernote, Shazam, Amazon Mobile, Kindle, Shakespeare, TapTap (1 & 2), Skype, TNF Snow Report (will probably reinstall in winter), pTerm, Units, Wurdle, Public Radio Tuner, Starmap, Super Monkey Ball, and Morocco
- Steve Wilhelm
Steve Wilhelm - So many of these seem like websites (not the games, but most of the other ones). Why do you feel you need an app?
- Kevin Carey
iSnort http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- A.T.
For the Twitter power user, Twittelator Pro 3.0
- Louis Trapani
Smugshot
- Tony Fluharty
BuddyFeed is the best FriendFeed app I've found, and I'd go for either Twitterific or Tweetie over TweetDeck. Instapaper is vital, and either OmniFocus or Things depending on which you prefer on the desktop. If you're not a desktop app person for to dos, then RememberTheMilk is great.
- Ian Betteridge
compass, skype, bubbles, Google Earth & document viewer.
- Robert MacEwan
One more is Byline, which just got a nice upgrade and syncs with Google Reader.
- Steve Rubel
For video uploads direct from the 3G S to over 40 services you should give the new Pixelpipe 1.4.1 version a shot. Details at http://tr.im/p7vT
- Brett Butterfield
I like BuddyFeed, LinkedIn,PocketGod, Tap Tap, Shozu,Worpress, and Tumblr
- Chris Sparno
LOL. Now you're going to have a ton of Apps you never use!
- Dane Deasy
I like the one that puts mullet hair cuts on friends head shots.
- Christine Taylor
Robert - have you tried ALL of the above suggestions yet? If so, please report back with findings. :)
- Patrick Jordan
Waiting for push notification support for IM apps.
- ashish
Robert - For news headlines with awesome photography - Thomson Reuters New Pro. Great for catching up whilst on the move. Keyword customisable.
- Tom Ablewhite
get pandorabox best app
- Blake Mathews
Public Radio, Pandora,Classics, Twitteriffic... tho I honestly haven't checked out any other Twitter Apps.
- Orville Chomer
Thanks for great list of recommendations. :)
- Daniel Schildt
Walt Ruppar to Walt's feed, All Things Apple, The Apple Room, iPhone, 3G iPhone, MobileWorld, All Things Mobile, Mobile 2.0, *Europe's Mobile Tech & Social Media Hub*
iPhone 3.0 Update: 10 Hidden Features - #Apple #iPhone (via @PCWorld) - http://www.pcworld.com/article...
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"If you haven't had a proper run-down through all the new features in the iPhone 3.0 software update, our colleagues from Macworld have a comprehensive hands-on review. But now that many had the chance to play around with the new iPhone OS, plenty of undocumented features and nifty updates are started showing up. I have complied for you this list of the top 10 hidden gems within the iPhone 3.0 update, which are some of the most important undocumented features so far. If you find any more, make sure you leave them in the comments, so that everyone gets to try them. "
- Walt Ruppar
from Bookmarklet
Firefox, TOR, Privoxy, and Vidalia in a portable EXE to obfuscate your browsing - http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009...
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"Maybe you'd prefer a single EXE that packages Firefox, TOR, Privoxy, and Vidalia? You're in luck - Paul O'Brien has combined those ingredients into a tasty privacy-enhancing stew."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
60 Marvelous Superhero Wallpapers - http://www.hongkiat.com/blog...
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awesome wallpapers
- Alfredo
frickin awesome! I want to figure out how to add these to my background switcher
- Chieze Okoye
Wow, excellent!
- Kol Tregaskes
Official Google Blog: A planetarium in your pocket - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
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"At today's Searchology event we were pleased to launch Google Sky Map for Android. Google Sky Map turns your Android-powered mobile phone into a dynamic window on the night sky. When you point your phone upwards you will see a map of the brightest stars, constellations and planets in that part of the sky. The next time you see a bright star and want to know what it's called, Sky Map can help you identify it."
- Arnaldo M Pereira
from Bookmarklet
Use Gmail Backup to Save Your Emails from Oblivion - http://www.googletutor.com/2008...
Cibeles, Wayne Sutton, Darryl and 6 other people liked this
this looks awesome. i already grab my emails via IMAP using Apple's mail.app, but i'm never sure if the messages are truly archived. getting them in eml format (mbox would be nice too) seems pretty awesome. Mostly i'm intrigued by the idea of tranferring all my email from one account to another. I've been thinking of setting up gmail for my domain, and there's been no easy way to move for years of @gmail.com messages over until now
- @baratunde
Why won’t someone develop a decent Twitter client for the Blackberry? - http://hardknoxlife.wordpress.com/2008...
Bertrand Doux, Didier Girard, Tyson Key and 6 other people liked this
Better question - why no FriendFeed iPhone clients at all?
- Jamie
Couldn't agree more... anyone got Twitpic working in Twitterberry?
- Jordi Soler
Twitterberry isn't that bad
- Adam Ostrow
Fftogo is decent enough. I don't know that I'd use a dedicated Friendfeed app on my blackberry... I can't imagine it would be any different that viewing a webpage with some fancier icons and buttons. Same thing for a twitter client. What's so wrong with using the mobile web version?
- Mitch
@Adam Ostrow: But it isn't good either.
- Ward Seward
@Jamie - what more do you need then the FriendFeed iPhone interface? http://friendfeed.com/iphone or fftogo - http://fftogo.com
- Justin Korn
Going private alpha on a new community ticker content experience. Anyone interested in trying it out?
Benton, Allison, Ward Seward and 3 other people liked this
why not...zee@wedocreative.com - you might also want to offer the apps room http://www.friendfeed.com/welovea...
- Zee.
just 'like' this and i'll get in touch with you in the next couple weeks.
- Simon Plashkes
Why not :-)
- Majento
All the cool kids are doing it: http://rejaw.com/leolaporte
Nikpay, Joshua Smith, Dave Martin and 11 other people liked this
oh shoot. Brace yourselves for a tidlewave Rejaw.
- Zee.
i'm http://rejaw.com/zee
- Zee.
why not?
- Charlie Anzman
Interesting for how long all the kids will be doing it this time :) But it is rather nice, admitted.
- Svetlana Gladkova
Cool thing about Rejaw is that each conversation or "Shout" has it's own URL that you can use to keep track of it. e.g.: http://rejaw.com/leolapo...
- Tokyo Dan
from twhirl
if Leo is doing, I guess it means the rest of us have no choice...here I come rejaw
- Bob Blunk
I'm in.
- Stu Andrews
from twhirl
omg, yet another site? http://rejaw.com/jowyang
- Jeremiah Owyang
just followed you Leo ....
- johnpiercy
from twhirl
I don't need another service twitter and friendfeed are enough.
- Colide81 (James)
what is rejaw good for?
- Colide81 (James)
Yeah, another site to break!
- Nate Pilling
from twhirl
Never got my confirmation message from these people. Still waiting.
- Eric Geller
http://rejaw.com/mitchelltsai What's the feedback on Rejaw so far?
- Mitchell Tsai
Yeah, I'm not that cool, because I don't get how this is an evolutionary step over FriendFeed, like it was over Twitter.
- Vincent van Wylick
I'm on Rejaw and it's BORING. At least on FriendFeed you have many conversations that move. Rejaw, people talk, no one listens.
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I feel a little, just a little offended that it told me I was not human... *enables javascript*
- Christian Leonard Quale
from twhirl
@Ivan have you seen how fast it is...? Hence the "chat" aspect?
- Zee.
Take FriendFeed Mobile With FF To Go - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
Michael Ryan, Paul Metcalfe, Eric Florenzano and 15 other people liked this
Benjamin just mentioned he's seeing some downtime. Hopefully it didn't get Twitterized.
- Louis Gray
@bart I set it up on the blackberry browser and it worked just fine. Did nt try it on my Opera browser
- Jon Erickson
from twhirl
@Jon Yah, creator said it's going up/down at the moment. Public listing now works in Opera but not my "Friends" page. In time :)
- Bartek Ciszkowski
It won't let me login on my BlackBerry 8130, and it's also giving me a 500 error. :(
- Zach Flauaus
it's not working on my Dash WiMo 6.1
- Alex Sauceda
from twhirl
15 Great Examples of Web Typography - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Capn' One Eye - adrift, Brandon Titus, Andrés David Aparicio and 6 other people liked this
A static FriendFeed is a worthless FriendFeed. - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Ashton, Mitchell Tsai, Ward Seward and 3 other people liked this
Excellent piece. Dead on. I have been loath to give up my Palm Treo but I can only view Friend Feed via the Palm OS not reply or comment. Probably will end up with a Blackberry or I-Phone soon.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
interesting how this exact same post have multiple conversations in here. there should be a way to unify them. no?
- ilteris
@itleris I think that's the next big think I need from friendfeed to help unify the conversation
- Bastard Operator From FF
from twhirl
@ilteris - that is one of the challenges for FF going forward - streamliing and removing duplicates
- Colin Walker
Converge : friendfeed: at last, I get it - http://toddmundt.com/blog...
Ashton, Michael Pardee, Ward Seward and 9 other people liked this
Ian Betteridge's tip of hiding all the content from Twitter unless it has a comment or like is great. Cuts noise down by half.
- Rubin Sfadj
Now I'm wondering if I can hid bkite and other location-based comments
- ha3rvey (free hugs!)
More (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers | Graphics | Smashing Magazine - http://url.im/3izu3v
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Social Media FAQ #5: How Do I Talk to my Executives about Social Media? - http://www.web-strategist.com/blog...
Ward Seward, Morton Fox, Dobromir Hadzhiev and 2 other people liked this
Get free Wi-Fi at Starbucks with or without an iPhone from AT&T [Wi-Fi] - http://feeds.gawker.com/~r...
Mitchell Tsai, DaveFriesen, Ward Seward and 3 other people liked this
How late adopters get into social media - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
Mitchell Tsai, JP Dubois, HokieGeek and 11 other people liked this
Was that humor or passive-aggressive reverse-psychology at the end Scoble? ;)
- Leif Hansen
from Alert Thingy
Leif: both. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Actually, Google is still the #1 source for information seekers. The "social media" crowd is too difficult to break into. Who has time to follow 10,000 people? Who has time to build an online reputation like you, or Darren Rowse? At least with Google, it's a quick extraction - type in, get a lot of things out of it, get out. I believe Google and social media go hand in hand.
- Rudy Amid
Google Search = $$$$$$$$$
- Robert Seidman
@Rudy - I agree... I believe one thing that that can be tired is to give an overall view to those standing outside of the social media crowd. A sampling of interesting topics and news from the whos who in social media might be a way to inform late adopters. At least that's part of the audience i'm going after with my project!
- David Bisset (sn)
Are You and Your Significant Other Both Social Media Mavens? - Profy.Com - http://www.profy.com/2008...
Franklin Pettit, Colin Walker, Hutch Carpenter and 2 other people liked this
I'm lucky if I meet one person in my day to day life whose really heard of the term social networking, but to meet a couple would be pretty incredible.
- Phil Ashman
My wife IS on Twitter ;)
- Colin Walker
besides @jetblue, @vmwarefusion, @comcastcares & @lionelatdell, any other companies doing customer service on twitter?
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@hrblock is a company on Twitter. Kodak is on Twitter too at http://twitter.com/kodakCB
- Robert Scoble
The ever expanding gap between early adopters and mainstream users - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Todd L. Gilbert, Russellreno, David Adewumi and 28 other people liked this
This is spot on: people are just barely getting the concept of myspace and facebook, now the early adopters are 2 to 3 steps ahead of them. (You won't see mainstream tweeting for at least another year, yet twitter is so passé already). It used to be that early adopters were just thinking of jumping ship when the mainstream caught on.
- Mark Trapp
from Alert Thingy
Have to agree. No offense to the FF guys, but the FF hype is incredibly premature. Whether or not there will ever be mainstream adoption is very much in question and even if there is that time is a ways off. Things have gotten awfully loud here in the echo chamber....
- JonathanJoseph
Agree as well. I'm @ .edu and explaining Twitter is like pulling teeth. Most faculty are not just getting comfortable w/ platforms like Moodle/Blackboard to teach online. Throw Twitter in the mix and they think they need to choose....Bb or Twitter instead of saying " I can use these tools together " This is the challenge for all these new tools. You gotta convince mainstream to adopt and apply to life/career or whatever. Early adopters don't pay the bills mainstream does.
- Matt Long
Matt: that's not true (that early adopters don't pay the bills). There's lots of misunderstandings of the role of early adopters here, though. Think about it. If we were back in 1977 we'd be having the same discussion about personal computers and why only geeks would buy them. If you came to that conclusion back then you'd be dead wrong. Just like now.
- Robert Scoble
The thing is, you can't JUST have early adopters. You need them, then some middleware people who aren't as geeky to see the potential, who then evangelize it to the mainstream. Taste Tribe leaders, I suppose. You need all three groups to make something ubiquitous, like personal computing.
- Rob
from Alert Thingy
@Scoble, Exactly I was just writing up that in 2002, when Flickr launched, the average user saw no need to have a site to share all their photos here we 6 years later and everyone's grandmother uses Flickr (ok, exaggerating, but you get my point). in 5 years time when the average folks will be getting the bulk of their media from the interwebs, a FF style service will be important.
- Bastard Operator From FF
Scoble: Try telling that to the early adopters of Betamax, HD-DVD, minidisc, etc. There are technologies that fail, plain and simple. I don't think Twitter or FF will be around in a few years but something else might.
- Shawn Farner
from twhirl
@Scoble That's not at all a valid comparison. At some point, everyone had to have a computer whereas there's very little chance that Twitter/FF will rise to that level of necessity.
- JonathanJoseph
Early Adopters and Beta apps are just the blueprint or Outline for the eventual product. Take RSS for example. It doesn't matter what you use to harness it as long as you use it to be more productive. Really it looks like everyone is fussing over their favorite tree and which tree is better when what counts is the FOREST the trees are in...
- Anthony Farrior
I've always known that I had AADD (adult attention deficit disorder) but I havev evolved my opinion that MOST of the folks highly involved with technology suffer from this. Today with SOOOoooo many new tools and technologies it is even more difficult to maintain a focus. This jumping around makes that gap widen even quicker. What do the rest of you think?
- 2WheelTech
Early Adopter idea is limiting. Communities and personal styles are also important. FF might be mainstream for bloggers, yet early adopter for techies. Facebook is mainstream for college kids, but early-adopter for age 40-45 Harvard alumni (only 2-3%), and out-of-the-rader for general public. Out of my ~1200 Yahoo! Mail addresses, 93 on Facebook, 10 on Twitter, and 0 on FriendFeed. And Facebook seems to be post-mainstream (aka old news) for the bloggers here. Track early adopter/mainstream vs community.
- Mitchell Tsai
I wrote a post about this very issue: http://davidadewumi.com/2008... just because a blogger wants something to be true (i.e. this product will succeed) does not make it so
- David Adewumi
Retweeting @jeffjarvis - Clay Shirky at Web 2.0 - a must read: http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008... - what will you do with your cognitive surplus?
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thanks for the clay shirky link; excellent.
- lisa church
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