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- Desirade
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Tu peux développer pour les non initié :-?
- Nicolas Gosset
Okay, j'avais pas vu le petit "forum phpBB" , cf http://bit.ly/KKbyR
- Nicolas Gosset
Sylvain. Si tu n'expliques pas ici en 5 points synthétiques pourquoi tu n'aimes pas FF (et faire ainsi avancer le bouzin ;) je te menace de venir squatter avec quelques centaines d'amis ton prochain spectacle de Slam... :-))
- Nicolas Voisin
moi pas comprendre...
- Polluxe
FF l'a tuER
- laurent des fraises
ouais même en un seul point s'il te plait Sylvain.
- Desirade
En trois points : 1 - c'est peu ergonomique (alors que c'est LA grande force de Twitter) 2 - Les fonctionnalités nouvelles ne sont que d'une utilité relative par rapport à celles déjà offertes par Facebook, Twitter, FlickR et autres réseaux agrégés. 3 - Le côté «Forum phpBB» (d'où mon montage) a beau être sympathique, il créé un espace en plus des autres espaces sur lesquels commenter à...
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- Sylvain Lapoix
"Blogging is free. It doesn’t matter if anyone even reads it. What matters is the meta-cognition of thinking about what you’re going to say. How to you explain yourself to … whoever’s going to look at it? How do you force yourself to describe in three paragraphs why you did something? How do you respond out loud?" -- Seth Godin (via @edlee)
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Les nouveaux ministres d’ouverture - http://vidberg.blog.lemonde.fr/2009...
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C'est tres bete mais ca m'a bien faire ricaner : une fois que tu essaie de relier les differents ministres a leur ministere, tu decouvres les jeux de mots debiles !!
- Blaise Galinier
Reminder on how much innovation was packed into the iPhone, changing Smartphones forever -> Overwhelm the competition! - http://www.businessinsider.com/10-ways...
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Demain @patricelamothe CEO de pearltrees anime "S’orienter sur le web : chance, boussole ou guide ?” #liftfrance09
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"Watch the world's leading TV channels in the highest quality plus your favourite web channels, all in one free player"
- Michael R. Bernstein
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When I didn't have TV I tried this out and was turned off by it. The interface is not easy to work with and the buffering is horrible. I would work but most of the channels were overseas (UK and Europe) which...no offense...were not what I was looking for. But that's just me!
- Brian Bufalo
This has been really important during the Iranian coverage as you can watch some channels from that region who are doing more in-depth reporting that the US media
- Andrew Leyden
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Just getting ready for the morning!
- Robert Scoble
Ha! Yup, time for a new iPhone... again!
- Fred Davis
They are already waiting in line, after all!
- Robert Scoble
I'm ready!
- Peter Kruit
Banana
- Dean Clark
Ready for the new iPhone, ready to make the switch finally
- James Armfield
Exciteddd #apple!
- chris andrew
mosdef, apple!
- Jeremy Abbett
Funny, since I learned of you from Channel9.
- Peter Warnock
Dean: actually, Apricot. After all, they built their headquarters on one of my favorite Apricot orchards.
- Robert Scoble
My 2G self is ready for an upgrade!
- AllisonWagda
it has begun!
- Tyler Gillies
Please let there be a release of iPhone OS 3.0 and Snow Leopard =D!
- Guru Panguji
Can't wait til the evening
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
Heheh. Or is that "Bing. Bing. Bing. Bing."
- Robert Scoble
juice?
- Adam Johnson
Apple + Microsoft
- سیدیونس
got ya
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
can anyone confirm frontal camera?
- Tyler Gillies
God.....what's this...
- freebat
Guru, there's reportedly a Snow Leopard banner hanging in Moscone in plain view...which likely wouldn't be there unless there was *some* update :)
- AllisonWagda
Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like, Like :)
- Fatih Taşkıran
Sun. Sun. Sun. .. oh heck!
- John W Lewis
it's finally that time of the year! wooot! :D
- vijay
Judging by the looks of it, you're more than ready for tomorrow! Enjoy the conference, Rob!
- Thomas Ward
Hmmm, it's true. All you have to do is say "Apple" and tons of people will like and comment. Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting (and not sleeping very well).
- g3houdini
Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Coffee,
- Nir Ben Yona
When you get your new iPhones, check out @iStoryTime a library of narrated kids books for the iPhone http://cli.gs/4a3SYs
- Graham Farrar
Thanks for the reminder. I promised my daughter I'd cut apple slices for her school lunch tomorrow.
- Brett Nordquist
i promised myself id get a new iphone
- Tyler Gillies
yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
- Jean-Marie Gall
Just give me a stable iPhone OS 3.0. No need for new hardware bells and whistles ...
- Clarence Chiang
THERE IS A NEED!
- Tyler Gillies
If it was Banana Computers we'd just get more phallic jokes.
- Dean Clark
Will they announce the new Iphone tomorrow? I'm ready to make the switch. I'm just hesitant about AT&T, like when Robert called in on the Gilmor Gang take 2 from his car the quality sounded terrible.
- Stephen Pickering
LOL~!!! Awesome scoble.
- Adam Jackson
I BET it will be called iPhone Video. Expecting so much [new] video functions, so that it will be BASED on video. We'll see
- Konstantin
will this start a new meme?
- Dickson Loh
Dickson: it's a meme I've been on since 1977 when my dad brought home an Apple II and Hyde Jr. High let me help unbox its first Apple II.
- Robert Scoble
Occasionally I use my iPhone to make phone calls.
- Brett Nordquist
Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers
- Khaled A
The only thing about the camera in the front is how do you see what you are taking a photo of?
- Stephen Pickering
Brett, what is the call quality like? I've been on CDMA my whole cell phone life, well except for the analog years
- Stephen Pickering
Stephen, it's for video chat
- Konstantin
Ah, so there's a lens in the back too? Duh... I know
- Stephen Pickering
All this for a new camera?
- Nikolaj Stenberg
No there's a faster processor
- Stephen Pickering
600mhz I think
- Stephen Pickering
all this for a major conference
- Tyler Gillies
Tyler: you're right, 50 "Apples" is too many. I should have only put 43 here. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
I wonder if they will make a Touch with ear and mouthpiece so that with a MiFi card you could have an Iphone on the Verizon or Sprint network
- Stephen Pickering
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- Q B
GTFO 4chan fag :)
- Tyler Gillies
Stephen: The quality seems OK. I was with Sprint and Verizon the past 8 years. I like the iPhone for the apps and it's like having a mini-computer with me at all times. The few calls I make sound OK but not wonderful.
- Brett Nordquist
Is Friendfeed where you guys hang out when Twitter is slow? More action here tonigh!
- Brett Nordquist
+1 patrick, yeah ive had to clear all authorized computers more than once because of that
- Tyler Gillies
brett -- when isn't twitter slow? ;)
- Tyler Gillies
Thanks Brett, that's what I thought. Btw Twitter is ALWAYS slow, always has been even when there was no one on it
- Stephen Pickering
Brett: what's Twitter?
- Robert Scoble
robert: LOL
- Tyler Gillies
bummer, bummer, bummer, bummer... I wish I could live in the U.S sometimes...
- Orli Yakuel
Good point about Twitter being slow. Sure does seem that way the past while.
- Brett Nordquist
Orli: going to an Apple press conference is over rated. I live 45 minutes away and I'm not tempted.
- Robert Scoble
Today is a good day. I can't wait.
- Jim Williams
I bought two iPhones in March so I won't be upgrading for a while. I got my spouse one wondering if she'd use it. And now there's no way I could pry it out of her hands. She's taken to it like I would have never imagined. She's into the simple games, but she LOVES it.
- Brett Nordquist
one way I am hoping a great, revolutionary new iphone, so that I can admire it. OTOH I am hoping my iphone 3g is not obsolete tomorrow...
- Alpay Erturkmen
By the way, both Mike Arrington and my iPhones have tons of cracks on the screen in a very similar pattern. I wonder what that means?
- Robert Scoble
damn too costly. damn too costly. damn too costly. damn too costly. damn too costly. damn too costly. damn too costly. damn too costly. damn too costly. damn too costly. damn too costly. damn too costly. damn too costly. damn too costly. damn too costly. damn too costly. damn too costly. damn too costly. damn too costly. damn too costly. damn too costly. damn too costly. damn too...
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- Yuvi
Yuvi: Apple's always been that way yet I keep going to the Apple store and handing over my cash.
- Robert Scoble
نرین وسط تکست فیدما عنتر
- hasrat
The service is what is too costly
- Stephen Pickering
actually i heard a cheap iphone rumor
- Tyler Gillies
For a student living in a second-third world country? Hell yea! :)
- Yuvi
Well Apple has always been kind of US centric
- Stephen Pickering
Not just Apple - Not a single retailer ships to India :( Amazon, Newegg, nobody :
- Yuvi
I wonder if that's a Government regulation thing?
- Stephen Pickering
FriendFeed ships to India!!!!
- Stephen Pickering
Yeah, it is. But when Cafepress can ship, why can't Amazon!
- Yuvi
Electrons always get free shipping :D
- Yuvi
i pay for my electron shipment
- Tyler Gillies
I had this problem when I ran a internet retailer out of my house. I'd get orders from England and such but the tarriff would be as much or more than the order
- Stephen Pickering
Also, an iPhone even with a contract is INR 32,000 - which is around 700$. That sucks.
- Yuvi
In India they don't do subsidies?
- Stephen Pickering
32GB iPhone, 32GB iPhone, 32GB iPhone, 32GB iPhone, 32GB iPhone, 32GB iPhone, 32GB iPhone, 32GB iPhone, 32GB iPhone, 32GB iPhone, 32GB iPhone, 32GB iPhone!
- Louis Trapani
Stephen: NO. I'd gladly fork over 200$, even 300$ for an iPhone, even with a contract! BUT NO SIR, YOU ARE NOT GETTING ONE! iPhones are for the RIIIICCH!
- Yuvi
Yeah but you know how much our monthly service is here? $120 per month
- Stephen Pickering
Tomorrow is gonna be amazing...just wait and see. I've already said too much ;)
- Andru Edwards
120 i would blow on non iphone junk
- Tyler Gillies
Andru: you suck. Now send me a DM about what's coming in the morning.
- Robert Scoble
In Russia they pay about $12 per month for cell phone service and yet one of the companies I'm invested in Vimpel makes as good or better margins than US carriers. How is that?
- Stephen Pickering
Stephen: So basically you're getting ripped off by the Telcos, while we're getting ripped off by Apple :) I spend about 6$ a month, for about 30 hours of talktime and 750 free outgoing messages a day :)
- Yuvi
12 USD?
- Tyler Gillies
Yeah, that's my point, and yet I bet the carriers in India make the same amount of money as ours
- Stephen Pickering
Just seen a post by Leo Laporte, went something like; Pre, Pre, Pre, Pre,Pre, Pre,Pre, Pre, Pre, Pre, Pre, Pre,Pre, Pre,Pre, Pre, Pre, Pre, Pre, Pre,Pre, Pre,Pre, Pre, Pre, Pre, Pre, Pre,Pre, Pre,Pre, Pre, Pre, Pre, Pre, Pre,Pre, Pre,Pre, Pre, Pre, Pre, Pre, Pre,Pre, Pre,Pre, Pre - - - - - - Just kidding, we all love Leo!! :)
- Jim Connolly
Tyler, actually more like $8 USD, and as Yuvi just said in India he only pays 6 USD!
- Stephen Pickering
tech news-- the post i saw had more cuss words in it ;)
- Tyler Gillies
Why is service in the US so much more expensive, the real estate for towers?
- Stephen Pickering
stephen -- because they know we'll pay
- Tyler Gillies
And I'm kinda 'higher end' :P A few of my friends spend about 1-2$ a month, and still get those free texts :)
- Yuvi
Yuvi, I'm gonna cry
- Stephen Pickering
i actually didn't think 120 a month was very high heh. now im shocked
- Tyler Gillies
Cell phone service used to be very costly - around 20 bucks a minute (that'd be 50 cents) when it first came on in - ten years ago. Then Reliance happened, everyone got a mobile :)
- Yuvi
I only found this out when I invested in a Russian carrier
- Stephen Pickering
If I could avoid iTunes (which I despise), and were I able to afford multiple mobile contracts, I might consider an iPhone. But damn, I just want the thing to show up as mass storage. And I want a file browser.
- Christopher A Carr
Now, for 3$ a month, I can call other Vodafone numbers for 10paise (that'd be, 0.20 cents NOT 20 cents), and other numbers for 49paise (that's around 1 cent). Not bad at all :)
- Yuvi
Let's hope for the release of Snow Leopard and Apple OS 3.0!
- Peter Kruit
So, how much do americans pay for mobile service?
- Yuvi
How much is 1 rupee worth. I just watched Slumdog
- Stephen Pickering
Yuvi: this is why Android is so interesting. I think long term that Android is going to be how most people get a cell phone with the power of an iPhone.
- Robert Scoble
GPL. GPL. GPL. GPL. GPL. GPL. GPL. GPL. GPL. GPL. GPL. GPL. GPL. GPL. GPL.
- A.T.
Yuvi, my bill is over 100 bucks a month
- Stephen Pickering
Stephen: The ballpark rate is around 50 rupees for one usd.
- Yuvi
I agree, Robert. It won't be long before Android matches the polish of iPhone's OS and WebOS
- Christopher A Carr
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!
- Larry Hudson
OK, so he was still a USD millionaire
- Stephen Pickering
Stephen: And how much do you use it? I mean, how much do you talk?
- Yuvi
reliance?
- Tyler Gillies
@Scoble: You know when Android would reach critical mass? When the cheap knockoff Chinese mobile makers embrace it.
- Yuvi
All the time because its my only phone. But my plan only allows 900 minutes, but you get free weekends and after work hours. I think I average 1000 minutes a month
- Stephen Pickering
Yuvi: I hear there are 12 Android phones shipping this year. It's only a matter of time.
- Robert Scoble
I'm sure the BigInJapan folks would appreciate a camera that will work for their barcode app.
- Christopher A Carr
hope the new iphone has a macro lens
- Tyler Gillies
Yuvi: They already are.
- Christopher A Carr
Christopher: did you see the Android phones that were handed out at Google's I/O conference? They are very nice. I think they passed Nokia and Microsoft with that effort and have Palm and Apple in sight.
- Robert Scoble
The "magic," yes, I did. It's a much more attractive handset than the G1, which is what Android needs at this point.
- Christopher A Carr
I wonder what Bono will do to McNamee if the Palm thing doesn't work out
- Stephen Pickering
Christopher: I'm not sure! A Chinese phone with a very big screen sells for around 90-100$. The only reason they're not as popular as Sony Ericsson and Nokia is the shitty software on them. If they have Android, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. So would millions of people here.
- Yuvi
Yuvi: since Android is open source and free to put on phones I expect the Chinese will catch on within months. Especially since Android is getting better and better and selling better and better too.
- Robert Scoble
Yuvi: Lenovo has an Android-running handset, for the Chinese market, coming out soon. Not sure it's all that cheap, though...
- Christopher A Carr
I hope so Scoble, I hope so.
- Yuvi
Scoble,Yuvi: Chinese sets which come to India are without IMEI number which means, they are ILLEGAL
- Manish Sinha
Not Lenovo. Nameless factories that churn out mobiles, Christopher. Some have pirated copies of WiMo, and most have some shitty homemade OS.
- Yuvi
@Manish: A friend of mine just bought one two weeks ago. My uncle uses one. Pop on any train, and you'll find a lot of people using these. I'm not too sure about illegality - I think they might've now gotten IMEI numbers.
- Yuvi
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- Alp
Yuvi: As Robert said, it's a free mobile OS. China doesn't lack for Linux hackers...I'm sure Android-running cheapies will be common in the near future.
- Christopher A Carr
Also, do cheap Chinese knockoffs appear in the US much?
- Yuvi
Yuvi: not really.
- Robert Scoble
Not particularly.
- Christopher A Carr
Yuvi: Some of my friends too use it. Indian Govt has asked all Telecom Operator to block mobiles without IMEI number but the telecos are reluctant. I large number of people still do use phones without IMEI number, so telecos will lose a lot of customers.
- Manish Sinha
What's an IMEI number?
- Stephen Pickering
<Insert Customary Link to Wikipedia>
- Yuvi
I would like a really high-spec Android-running device. Something with a higher res screen, real camera, etc...talking higher-end hardware than, say, and iPhone.
- Christopher A Carr
Also, an iPhone or Pre would be *very* vulnerable to theft. Some jackass stole my SE phone a week ago, an iPhone or Pre would be much more valuble targets!
- Yuvi
If someone steals my G1, and is stupid enough not to turn it off, I can track it.
- Christopher A Carr
yuvi -- my iphone never leaves my body and i wear pants with deep pockets on purpose ;)
- Tyler Gillies
So Robert, will you be going down to the Apple store this time in case something is released?
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: nope. Although I have my Prius all ready. Heh.
- Robert Scoble
i want safari4linux from Apple. Please, Robert say them "the penguin wants apple very much!"
- Hüseyin Mert
Mert: Fat chance :) They won't even release a non-sucky passable iTunes for Windows...
- Yuvi
Huseyin: You want a Linux version of Safari? Why, when Chrome is in the works?
- Christopher A Carr
Robert, same here - I think I'll just be ready to dart if it looks like something's going to sell worth getting. It sure would be nice if the Apple stores could have custom feeds straight from Apple during the Keynotes. I think they'd get a lot more business around that time if they did.
- Jesse Stay
An interesting thing about Safari4 beta for Windows is that it looks Windows-native -- wonder if that's in the works for iTunes for Windows at some point...
- Christopher A Carr
Christopher: have you tried official release or chromium. Both sucks. So, why apple ignore linux? this would be the question.
- Hüseyin Mert
Same reason almost every other corp. in the world ignores Linux (on the desktop)
- Yuvi
They are in development stages and are not nearly ready to be primary browsers. Chrome for Windows is much better than Safari 4 for Windows.
- Christopher A Carr
linux on the desktop is just lame. server cool. desktop fail. end of story
- Tyler Gillies
+1 Tyler. And I'm sayin that from an Ubuntu box
- Yuvi
If you're using Ubuntu, you ought to try Linux Mint...a much more polished distro UI-wise, built from Ubuntu.
- Christopher A Carr
mint isn't"built" from ubuntu. it IS ubuntu
- Tyler Gillies
When is Safari going to have separate processes per tab?
- Christopher A Carr
and its not the "polish" that makes it fail. its the design, it was created as a server OS
- Tyler Gillies
That's becoming less and less the case, Tyler. Have you tried the latest Mint?
- Christopher A Carr
last mint i installed was elyssa
- Tyler Gillies
Gloria is a considerable improvement.
- Christopher A Carr
Elyssa was Mint 5. They are on 7 now.
- Christopher A Carr
im not saying its a bad os. it just fails when compared to windows 7 or mac osx
- Tyler Gillies
The "built for servers" point is a bit odd considering OSX's history...
- Christopher A Carr
mushrooms! mushrooms!
- Ben
Well, heck then I'm not getting Linux because my Mac Beach Balls enough as it is
- Stephen Pickering
badgers badgers badgers! ;)
- Tyler Gillies
Stephen, Macs don't crash. The funny commercial said so...
- Christopher A Carr
osx is bsd. thats a different story ;)
- Tyler Gillies
hehehehehehehehehhehe
- Stephen Pickering
Yeah, that was my point, Tyler. At any rate, let's not risk touching off a silly OS fight. Until recently, I was tri-booting Mint7, OS 10.5.x, and Win7, on my netbook.
- Christopher A Carr
menage a trois
- Tyler Gillies
Indeed. Ended up with a Mint7/Win7 dual boot. OSX's UI isn't great on the little screen. Ran just fine, though.
- Christopher A Carr
Christopher I downloaded Windows 7 on a Sun Virtual Box. Is there anyway I can make it fill up the whole screen or can I only do that with boot camp?
- Stephen Pickering
Stephen, first of all, you're not seeing all the Win7 prettiness without hardware acceleration. And yes, you should be able to go full screen with VB.
- Christopher A Carr
isn't virtualbox a piece of software?
- Tyler Gillies
Yes, tyler, for installing OSes in virtual machines.
- Christopher A Carr
Yeah, I haven't played with it because it just sits there in its little box. No fun. But Leo Laporte was saying that Virtual had come so far that there was hardly any difference
- Stephen Pickering
I'll boot camp it
- Stephen Pickering
It runs nice in a VM, but, yeah, to really try it out, you should consider installing it on real hardware.
- Christopher A Carr
i installed windows xp in virtualbox from linux on a gateway because that was the only way i could get the drivers to work without the oem install cd
- Tyler Gillies
I had Vista for a while on this Imac, but then it stopped working because it was a 350 dollar Home edition I bought for my Parents and licensed for only one machine! Oh that made me so mad
- Stephen Pickering
I mean Vista Boot camped until it wouldn't let me log in anymore
- Stephen Pickering
And yes, it was beautiful, so I can imagine what Win 7 woudl look like, now I'm drooling, must boot camp. Think I'll do that now, as it looks like no sleep tonight
- Stephen Pickering
Virtual Box has a "seamless mode," which lets you launch windows apps seemingly in Linux - sort of hides the guest OS. I would stick the XP bar on the side of my Linux desktop...elicited lots of "what the fucks?" **edit** This was with Linux as the host and XP as the guest, which works better than the other way around.
- Christopher A Carr
Time to get a DVD out
- Stephen Pickering
anyone have a blueray player?
- Tyler Gillies
Getting a blueray burner for my desktop PC next month.
- Christopher A Carr
Oops, what happened? Screenabstract from iPhone after firing the device up? :-)
- Mark Jacobs
is it worth the upgrade?
- Tyler Gillies
You mean video quality-wise, from a DVD?
- Christopher A Carr
yes
- Tyler Gillies
on a 1080P screen, absolutely. And sound...much better.
- Christopher A Carr
@Tyler not only blu ray looks great, but most players will also upscale dvds to make em look great
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
is blueray 1080p?
- Tyler Gillies
most blu rays are 1080p, some earlier ones were 720p... check the box... it usually says if is 1080p
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
I hope Apple finaly introduces blu ray support in snow leopard.
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
If you've ever watched something like a football game via an uncompressed, over-the-air HD signal, it's even a little better than that...
- Christopher A Carr
apple is really getting uncreative with their naming schemes. leopard to snow leopard?
- Tyler Gillies
Apple seems to think that we are all going to have 100MPBS down connections and 20 TBs of storage sometime in the very near future. So don't hold your breath, Sebastiaan.
- Christopher A Carr
100 mbps would be nice. i have 3
- Tyler Gillies
Apple would prefer to sell us high-def content via iTunes.
- Christopher A Carr
does perian have blueray?
- Tyler Gillies
here in the netherlands, they don't even sell movies yet or tv shows, or you can't rent movies either... so that sux, no blu ray support.. As far as i know, macs with vlc or perian can play ts mpeg streams.... thats not the issue
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
Tyler, bandwidth and storage is the issue. A physical medium like Blue Ray disc solves those problems.
- Christopher A Carr
100 mbps? I have 256kbps
- Yuvi
is that isdn?
- Tyler Gillies
I've 7 mbps. There are places where one can get a residential 100mpbs connection. Tokyo, for instance. Verizon is doing fiber to the residence in some parts of the US, with 50mbps connections available, I think.
- Christopher A Carr
It's ADSL
- Yuvi
DSL rather
- Yuvi
i live on an island i think the highest we have here is 11 mbps
- Tyler Gillies
Most of Europe kicks most of the US's ass in the residential bandwidth department...
- Christopher A Carr
256kbps would really make me cry.
- Christopher A Carr
I could've taken 2 mbps, but that'd be capped at 2.5 gigs a month :(
- Yuvi
I have 20mbps connection, but it doesn't go no faster than 6mbps cuz of the distance to telephone adsl switches
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
That's less than one 1080p feature length film, Yuvi.
- Christopher A Carr
yeah benjamin buttons is 7.36 gigs
- Tyler Gillies
Yes, I know. That sucks. That's why I'm on 256kbps uncapped.
- Yuvi
But at 256kbps, you can't really stream video much. Hell, even Pandora might be flaky.
- Christopher A Carr
Pandora is geotarded to the US. Youtube is shitty :(
- Yuvi
geotarded LOL
- Tyler Gillies
Watching a YouTube vid goes like this - click on play, click on pause, wait for it to download (at approximately 1s/s, so for a 8 min vid, I'd have to wait 8 mins), then watch :(
- Yuvi
Ah, that's right... us damn self-centered Americans. ;) Sorry
- Christopher A Carr
Can you use a web proxy to get Pandora to work?
- Christopher A Carr
i prefer grooveshark over pandora
- Tyler Gillies
I'd suck (with buffering) even if It was direct. With a proxy, no chance!
- Yuvi
Last.fm works though.
- Yuvi
Pandora's built from scratch, fancy database is tough to beat.
- Christopher A Carr
Yuvi: What's the mobile network speed situation there?
- Christopher A Carr
Well, there're two new providers offering 1.5mbps
- Yuvi
In all fairness, there are 16Mbps connections available for Residential users now in India. The problem is they are fixed data limit (20 GB) and fairly expensive (~$60/mo). And 3G EVDO Data Cards with 3.1 Mbps are available as well but again, expensive ~$13/mo for 1GB, ~$25/mo for 10 GB.
- Parth Awasthi
+1 Parth. 20GB at 16Mbps is laughable.
- Yuvi
$25 USD a month for a 3G data plan with a 10GB monthly cap?
- Christopher A Carr
you got that right.
- Parth Awasthi
That's cheap.
- Christopher A Carr
It's not because I'll use those 10GBs in a week at most and then I'll pay $4/GB. In three more weeks, I'll be running a huge bill.
- Parth Awasthi
Other than mobile plans, is it all DSL there? Or do they use coax as well? Any fiber to the residence?
- Christopher A Carr
Wired broadband connections are all DSL or Cable. FTTH is non-existent.
- Parth Awasthi
Those caps are indeed harsh.
- Christopher A Carr
I think I'm capped at 250GB per month.
- Christopher A Carr
250GB per month at a monthly price? I was earlier at 256Kbps to 2Mbps 1GB/monthly cap at $5/month. Now shifted to 256Kbps constant uncapped at $15/month.
- Manish Sinha
Yuvi: Airtel is providing 16MBps for home, but it was a joke. 20GB cap on 16Mbps line is a joke. Even if you bit mistake hit download and it gets download before you can cancel, then you have wasted a lot from your allowed cake.
- Manish Sinha
Parth: Those 3.1Mbps data cards is a joke. I never got more than 350Kbps ever. To add insult to injury TataIndicom projected in their ads... "3.1Mbps data cards 10GB unlimited"...WTF is "10GB unlimited"???
- Manish Sinha
@Manish: Me on the same plan too! :D
- Yuvi
Manish, the speeds one gets on EVDO are very highly correlated to the signal strength. I have used BSNL EVDO and I consistently got upwards of 1Mbps.
- Parth Awasthi
Best. Fr'eet*. Ever. (*FriendFeed Tweet)
- Pat
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- Mister IQ
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- Susan Beebe
+1 Susan!
- Kevin Whalen
from email
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- Ronald
Orange
- Chad McCoskey
The Apple store in SF doesn't own the window on the side of their building, which can lead to this: http://i.gizmodo.com/5280893...
- RobinDotNet
And gizmodo is blogging live at the event today. http://live.gizmodo.com/ if you're interested.
- RobinDotNet
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- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from PeopleBrowsr
We have the "We'll be back soon" sticky - http://store.apple.com/ IT'S GO TIME!
- Mike Bracco
Someone's really trying to keep the doctor away..
- JonInteractive
NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE.
- Steven Perez
ROFL! DYSP!
- Jim Hearts FF
lol
- Johnny
Microsoft.
- Sharron Field
See, that's just how a Mac gets a sad face :(
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil. Evil....
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- Mark Jacobs
Imagine ~ Create ~ Play ~ Apple.
- Kryptic
The Friendfeed gadget works in Gmail!
Alessandro Cosimetti, Nikos Kouremenos, Nils Sandin and 80 other people liked this
whao sweet!
- Zach Landes
I know. I am commenting on this from Gmail!
- Steve Rubel
I don't know if a could deal with that tiny width, but it's cool nonetheless. ;)
- Brandon
Cool - how did you do that?
- Nick Reynolds
Thanks
- Nick Reynolds
Lovely!
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
should the url: http://friendfeed.com/embed... :)
- Hobbes
I have successfully added
- Hobbes
uh oh, perhaps disturbing is a better description
- jerobins
I can't find the page,it shows nothing when I open it up.
- Steve Chou
But..how use this xml?
- enrico
The links are not working anymore - just gives me a blank page?
- Oyvind Solstad
How do I do this?
- David Cook
Is there a real-time gadget?
- Rolf Schewe
You need to go to Gmail | Settings | Labs | Add any gadget by URL | Enable
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
i'm using it from months. It's really useful
- Daniele Di Gregorio
Added! Thanks
- Micah Wittman
from twhirl
I wish I could add this gadget, but when I enable the Gadgets from any URL thing in Labs, I don't see the form to enter the URL under the Gadgets tab. Apparently several people have this problem (went to the Google Groups to add feedback that it's not working correctly), and no one has offered up any solution. :( Sucks!
- Cheryl Jones
Finally get the idea,it is cool though,but not very practical.
- Steve Chou
The URL tab is added to your settings area, not the Labs area. That was confusing for me.
- Yolanda
That is so cool! For me, the only problem is the width which is not appropriate but it works fine
- Rémi Fayolle
@Yolanda: I know. The description for the Labs item that you enable says that a Gadgets tab will be enabled on the Settings page, but clicking on that Gadgets tab doesn't show the form where you can enter the URL like it's supposed to. Bah.
- Cheryl Jones
@cheryljones I'm having the same problem too. I just get a blank page on the gadgets tab. Let me know if you figure out how to import.
- Al Stevens
@Al: Just for fun I went back to the Gadget tab in my Gmail settings, and the URL form box is there now. Just added the FriendFeed gadget to Gmail, yay!
- Cheryl Jones
Hmmm. The FF gadget is less useful than I thought. First of all, there doesn't seem to be a way to manually refresh it without refreshing Gmail as a whole (perhaps I'm too impatient waiting for updates). Also you can't post an original post through the gadget. And the number of FF updates shown by the gadget is limited. I thought I'd be able to see older posts. Oh well, it might be good for occasional use.
- Cheryl Jones
Nice, but wish the tabs in Gmail had replacing options..
- Reza
It's not enough wide for me.
- Smeerch
A while ago it stopped refreshing properly so I stopped using it.
- Cheryl Jones
The genius behind Google’s web browser - FT.com - http://www.ft.com/cms...
Anthony K. Valley ©, Chris Messina, Ricardo J. Valle and 108 other people liked this
"“Virtual machines are a strange beast,” says Bak. “There’s no perfect solution, instead you optimise for the ‘sweet spot’. There’s a lot of craftsmanship. It’s a long game, you can’t burn out. “There’s a constant workload,” he adds, “so I always stop for dinner. You can have a normal life.” For Bak this means family and privacy. The issue of work/life balance crops up again and again in conversation – and though he’s not anti-American, he clearly prefers the Danish way of life. “In the US, there is an aggressiveness, the extra level of belief in yourself that is needed. The European way is less aggressive. But in the US, you can get promoted and stay in touch with the technical side. In Europe, you turn into a paper manager. It’s hard to get your fingers dirty.” By working in Denmark for Google, Bak was aiming for the best of both worlds."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Funny -- I just met Lars this last Monday.
- Joe Beda ()
Strange article, but it does paint a very inspiring image of Lars and Kasper working from the farmhouse. Lars is one of the most intimidating guys I've met at Google. It's not that he is unkind or overly forceful; he just knows his stuff to a point where you start to doubt yourself. :-)
- Kelly Norton
It's a loss that he no longer works on HotSpot :) I think the Dalvik team could really use his expertise that he applied on Sun's Project Monty.
- Ray Cromwell
Indeed, Dalvik VM could use his skills.
- Nenad Nikolic
from twhirl
hey how are u where do u work at
- chandler
Is that a Mac he's using?
- Steve Wright
burger software → safariadblock - http://burgersoftware.com/en...
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"Safari AdBlock blocks ads in Safari."
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
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Four Tools for Tracking Topics in Social Media - http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2009...
Jose Maria Pelaez, Adrian, Ahsan Ali aka. Slick and 14 other people liked this
Excellent article. Thanks. Just what I need at the moment.
- Alex Williams
“in my search for a new way to deal with e-mail, I followed one guiding principle: Keep it simple. Any method th.. http://transnets.tumblr.com/post...
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5 Uses For Stacks You May Not Have Thought Of [Mac] | MakeUseOf.com - http://www.makeuseof.com/tag...
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Wow! Very nice
- Patrick
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iconPot - totally free icons #web - http://www.iconpot.com/
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"The aim of this site is simple. We list a whole bunch of icons which are all great to use for your web development projects. But we are different to other icon-related websites because we only list icons which you can use for free on personal AND commercial projects AND without having to provide back-links/credit to the author. These types of icons can be tough to find, so here is a while list for your convenience!"
- Seth Greenblatt
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Feedweaver - Create your own personalized RSS feeds #web #rss #feed #aggregator - http://feedweaver.net/
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Feedweaver allows you to create your own personalized RSS feeds. You can create your own feeds by combining source feeds from your favorite websites, and use filters to choose what you want in it! [via Corvida @ LG http://www.louisgray.com/live...]
- LouCypher
good - one more addition to feedscrub and feedrinse
- TrafficBug
Is there a way to filter duplicates / cross posts? I run into a lot of sites' news feeds posting the same stories...
- LarchOye
I agree there needs to be a service that filters duplicates without needing to use yahoo pipes for that and a way to block specific keywords across all feed items
- TrafficBug
Yeah, dublicates filtering is a must have function for such a service. Also I see need in setting negative keywords like "-iphone" so get all news except ones containing "iphone" ie in the title
- Dennis R.
Very cool Microsoft's concept videos for productivity of the future: http://news.techcastnetwork.co.uk/2009...
David H. Chu, Mike Elliott, Ryan and 43 other people liked this
Very cool, maybe too cool for Microsoft? This is the kind of stuff we are all waitting for.
- walterh
just my 2 cents: the problem with such videos is that they are so NOT practical. Anyone can come up with this, almost every sci-fi hollywood movie has it's own touchscreen based UI(The Island, Matrix(white chamber), Minority Report etc). It's fine when I see that stuff in movies but when MS and Nokia make these *concept videos*, I honestly get pissed off for raising expectations and IMO, time and again failing to meet them. So why do I think these vids are not thought through? Well, in all these videos...
- vijay
... notice that there is no "standard" way of interaction. Random shapes do random things. There is no clue whether a shape has to be touched, or pinched, or pushed, pulled, or slid. How do the guys who come up with this stuff even imagine UI of this sort to be *usable* by mere mortals!? That irks me. To see so little thought given to practicality, just another gimmick IMO. the digital interface of the future is one that mimics the real life interactions flawlessly, one that requires no *learning*. </$.02>
- vijay
vijay: exactly. There are so many reasons why these things turn out to look very lame 10 years down the road. Sort of like Disney's visions of the future back in the 1950s. Although they did get the microwave right they missed the boat on tons of other things.
- Robert Scoble
The last time Microsoft came out with their concept of the future, others made it better.This is another good start take 2.
- Carolyn Chan
And the people seemed to be somehow dealing with huge amounts of information and having to make lots of decisions without any appreciable benefit to their lives. There was also even more intermediation between the people (although the children's stuff was better). I'd personally like to see the technology make our lives easier rather than more demanding. And there's no hint at how any of it will actually enable more people to live in those future-cottages surrounded by lush greenery.
- Robin Barooah
they had a similar video at their dev conference. it was even better. wish I could find it, it was focused more on the workflow of desgin/manufacturing.
- mikepk
I have to say that someone screwed up that video, and I can't get past it. Those aren't compression artifacts, they are big fat ugly pixels, plain and simple. This is what happens when one doesn't understand the basics of sampling theory.
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
Microsoft Could never pull that off. Ever
- TheHenry
I like the part where he's looking at a bar chart and he drags one of the shorter bars to be longer. In the future, you will control the data.
- Ryan Stanley
TheHenry: actually Microsoft has about 20% of that already running in Surface Computer. I'd guess I've seen another 50% running inside Andy Wilson's lab at Microsoft Research. So, Microsoft is a lot further ahead than you might expect. The things that I don't expect to see in the next five years? The weird touchable screens. Those require significant breakthroughs to happen. Microsoft is not in control of those breakthroughs. Some will happen, others won't. But this world will largely happen.
- Robert Scoble
In the 80s, working at Albertsons, I suggested electronic shelf facings in grocery stores. I see my idea got resuscitated.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Robert Scoble: Oh wow . thats nice to know thanks! :) I also agree we won't see those weird touchable screens and that little card the lady on the airplane had in the next years or so. :)
- TheHenry
I think like concept cars, this is concept computing. There are obviously pieces of this that exist today (Surface, Deepzoom, etc.) and then a lot that does not. So I do have to wonder, why are we not excited about this type of possible future? Are we too old? My 8 year old loved it, pointing out all the helpful elements. She ended it with, "Daddy, you should get a computer like that." Its a concept, pieces will show up next year, others in 10 years.
- Robert Edwards
Robert: I get excited by this stuff. Just like I got excited by Alan Kay's Dynabook or Doug Engelbart's visionary demos back in the 1960s.
- Robert Scoble
the main question is, why aren't we there already?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Joelle: easy: humans hate change. That's what Douglas Engelbart told me about why it took us 20 years to get the Macintosh after he showed off most of the core concepts.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Me too, "the mother of all demos" (Egelbart) gets me all excited even now. I dig it up and watch it every couple of months. I think what's key in the demo vid is that "applications" vanish. The application is the context in which you interact with the data. Turning the digital into "reality plus" is the next big wave. Touching data, having it react in "real world" ways. That's what makes the iphone exciting, just barely hinting to the mainstream what's possible. These ideas have been baking for a...
- mikepk
... long time and they're finally starting to become practical and real.
- mikepk
+100 Robert (his last comment). Absofuckinlutely.
- Anthony Citrano
I guess you're right - I forget, being surrounded by change and people who can handle it all the time. People hate change yet love fads (cosmetic change, if you want) so they will ignore real progress and go for shiny "just like, but better" iterations. (or perhaps its only hindsight that lets us say "well that wasnt really revolutionary but a fad, after all"). Forget the transparent...
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Pour qui roulera Slate.fr ? - http://novovision.fr/...
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- Nicolas Voisin
Foggy Dubai - http://yayeveryday.com/post...
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"Foggy Dubai morning taken from the Burj Dubai Tower."
- Zee.
from Bookmarklet
Seen this many times, mad, mad photo. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
looks more like Coruscant to me
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Surrreal... enticing!
- AainaA-Ridtz A.R
pretty stunning
- Cee Bee
Wow. Wonder what's the minimum height of buildings poking above this fog?
- Abbas Haider Ali
That's mostly sand and concrete dust
- mjc
Love Dubai.
- jcunwired
The Etch-A-Sketch President: Artist uses toy to draw famous faces - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
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Kol Tregaskes, Michelle Jones, Eric Dorsett and 18 other people liked this
that first one took 80 hours to produce...
- Zee.
from Bookmarklet
Saw this guy on CNN. Amazing.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
yeah, absolutely outstanding
- Zee.
I'm lucky if I can make LINES with those things.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Friendfeed is the Next Great Blogging Platform, Here's Why... - http://www.micropersuasion.com/2009...
Jamie, Mark Andrew Catton, Gordon Saunders and 83 other people liked this
steve, can i stop by with some meds today? :-P
- Allen Stern
@Allen depends on the meds!
- Steve Rubel
I go where the community is. So what's the best way to build a community here?
- Tiffany Monhollon
dont worry steve they will be easy to take
- Allen Stern
Allen, no injections!
- Steve Rubel
That's why we dropped by the blog post, left a comment and then came back here.
- Richard A.
Follow people, participate.
- Richard A.
Great post, Steve. I agree. I much prefer FF. Another great feature of FF over Twitter is the customizable rooms.
- Waynette Tubbs
can't say that i prefer FF over Twitter or vice-versa. i fear that twitter's simplicity is the key to its success, and adding any new features would turn me off. i was away from FF for a while, but back on again. my interest goes in waves.
- Kevin Sablan
I also think your twitter experience varies depending on whether you're a big player or someone following the big players. Robert Scoble asks for something, he gets answers. John Smith might not get the same response. FF has a much better system to allow for others to get exposure.
- Peter Spook
your post reminds me of a old presentation i did at a barcamp in austria - you should even add filtering via knowledge by social network graph to your idea - i've uploaded my presentation here: http://bit.ly/gosM
- Andreas Klinger
custom domains would be awesome
- Hans Kainz
FF is on fire and will have success, but I'm glad you're not the PM. Maybe I just have a problem with using the word 'blog' as part of the description, just like 'microblogging' poorly describes Twitter (and the clones). Twitter is elegant and simple, and also quite superficial which I think the mainstream audience will prefer. The engagement of the somewhat_early_adopter crew now on FF seems to have you drooling, but don't mistake that as the norm.
- coldbrew
So you think it would be a good idea to have this like a big blogging platform??? i dont know... overboard a bit really I think... I would hate this place to turn into a bloody scoble blog
- Rob Sellen :o)
I can it being a center for more in depth discussion and posting than twitter. I can also see it as an almost real time blog format, which Scoble is playingn with right now. Longer blogs? Not sure yet
- Michael VanDervort
Friendfeed for me isn't a blog, it's "fflog" I COINED IT!
- orionstarr
I agree about the participation side, but "Blogging Platform" it is not, unless the text posting adds more tools.
- Jorge Escobar
If you add the things you suggest, you don't have a blogging platform, you have Tumblr.
- Rex Hammock
Rex, except Tumblr does not have the community mojo that FF has.
- Steve Rubel
from IM
If the platform were to change as you suggest, Rubel, do you think the dynamics and "mojo" would remain the same?
- coldbrew
Great article. I would say that what you describe is friendfeed is an aggregator of tumblr and twitter just on steroids.
- Russ Jackson
It might become more complicated as more text finds its way into here.
- Steve Rubel
from IM
Once I thought of just directing my current blog URL to a Facebook page and be done with it. Luckily I didn't do that. But reading you now makes me think a time may come where I might considering moving my blog -or actually my blogging activity- entirely into Friendfeed.
- Ignacio Rodriguez de R,
great post Steve, i think folks are sometimes too critical of the design - where if Twitter is the only comparison, it's night and day. Just for purely tracking my diggs, reddits, etc. it's useful... but that's such a small piece.
- Jason Hoch
I've been saying this since Scoble was accused of neglecting his blog for twitter & friendfeed
- sofarsoShawn
noteworthy conveniences at Friendfeed: 1) one can subclass a specialized interest and publicly share in a separate "room"; 2) one can easily incorporate single items from others by "reshare"; 3) searching under Everyone can bring up obscure but astonishing stuff; 4) resharing can be generalized in the room by subscribing to several external blogs/services; 5) an embedded player plays...
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- Adriano
I think if you can manage your FF wisely you not need to check your mails anymore...
- Syed Akram
Steve! sorry to be smart assed. But I have not seen one blog post here right? They just link back to your blog imo. You are fleeing to friendfeed because of the noise ratio. I hate FF :) 3 reasons and boy there are more. The only conversation goes on with the A-listers. No conversation comes my way on FF. It does though on Twitter. Twitter gives the smaller fish a place to converse. It does not work here on FF imo. Scoble has neglected his blog by hanging out here. All just my valid opinion :)
- DC Crowley
... Mike Arrington brought this up first and he's right. FF and jsut video's for Fast company will not get Scoble the exposure he used to have. 3/. FF cost to much time to stay on top of stuff. I have a life and hallelujah a job that needs attending. The attention required is too much.
- DC Crowley
DC: you are totally wrong. Most of the conversations here happen with non-A listers and I can prove it. My "best of" is very diverse.
- Robert Scoble
Frightening, just today I have blown the dust from my FF account. It is far more flexible than twitter.
- Matthias Faller
Steve, I would *love* to see this "FriendFeed as blogging platform" happen. Ever since Facebook updated its platform, it's been hard to convince my "normal" friends to hang out @ Friendfeed because it's just too hard for them to grasp. Heck, Twitter is hard enough for many of them to understand. Here's to *selling* it as a blogging platform. Just might work! ;)
- Barbara K. Baker
From Scoble's feed, also why: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- sofarsoShawn
How blogging was born (by Hugh Macleod) - http://www.gapingvoid.com/
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i think this has been shared on here before...but am sharing it again all the same...
- Zee.
from Bookmarklet
true
- Roman Zolotarev
I think Hugh could update this cartoon and use Twitter or FriendFeed instead of blogging -- would work just as well.
- Brian Sullivan
I am so gonna blog this.
- Steven Perez
brilliant!
- MicahBear78
It came from Dave Winer's Sripting News. He posted it yesterday.
- Jordi Soler
Dave Winer posted this yesterday? I didn't realize. I just got it from the above mentioned site. I would have linked from there if I'd seen it there.
- Zee.
MUST WATCH: “RT @MichaelHyatt:The Bush twins wrote a letter to the Obama girls.This video will make you cry. Guaranteed. (via @PWilson) ...
Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF), Victor Solanoy, Xavier Moisant and 7 other people liked this
Yup. Tears.
- Jeanine W.
Respect to them and a lesson for me. I wasn't sure they were sober through the whole thing. Everybody's all focusing on the position, and they remind those girls to focus on the people. Beautiful. And no, I didn't cry.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
What is it with these people who use Google Adwords to push people to their Twitter accounts? Does it actually work?
Kol Tregaskes, Bill Romanos, Nicholas James and 18 other people liked this
wow.. didn't know it existed
- Venky Chinnathambi
Desperation. Gotta love it. http://flickr.com/photos...
- Tamar Weinberg
Twitter is a sticky way to market. People are starting to value it. I use Twitter to launch stuff all the time. It works. :-)
- Dave Winer
You can not deny the possibility....that's the beauty of advertising!
- ravi karandeekar
:D It wouldn't work with me. I don't add people to my twitter just because they are popular or famous.
- Bibi
Wow
- Shevonne
@Dave what is this Twitter thing you speak of? Seriously I clicked it to know who theuserpool is and just why is he so entertaining!
- Steve Rubel
it's like a public rss-feed for your content, so why not?
- Vincent van Wylick
I would like to see someone interview these folks to see if they gained followers.
- Steve Rubel
If some use Twitter as a marketing tool, is this one marketing tool (targeted ads) pushing to another marketing tool?
- Kevin Sablan
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- Matt Albiniak
Similarly I see Facebook ads telling me about local people joining some group... does THAT work!?!
- Ciaoenrico
Dr. Phil went from 300 followers on Twitter to over 600 just by mentioning Twitter and actually typing a Twitter on his show. Imagine how much bigger he could get if he started advertising like this.
- Thomas Hawk
I've seen this occuring for a while. Someone told me a while ago, that he did it for a short period of time.
- Nicholas James
Solar Cell Tree Charger, A Home Gadget Worth Buying - Green Building : Jetson Green - http://www.jetsongreen.com/2008...
Tyson Key, Rob Sellen :o), Xavier Moisant and Jesper Lind liked this
"We don't really talk about small gadgetry and knickknacks on this website, but this solar cell tree charger by Vivien Muller is, I think, kind of different. You can use it to recharge your cellphone, camera, or whatever, because it has 54 tiny photovoltaic panels and an internal battery that stores energy during the day. The modular parts are connected and can be rotated infinitely creating a different tree for your favorite sunny spot at home. Unfortunately, this design is only a concept, but judging by the web response so far, there seems to be a large contingent of folks that want to buy one. Plus, it has to be easier to maintain than a real bonsai tree -- those things are tough to keep going."
- Internet Strategist
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I'd like to have one and I don't buy many things.
- Internet Strategist
Tech PR in Troubled Times | FastCompany.TV - http://www.fastcompany.tv/video...
Xavier Moisant liked this
"Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 Joshua Reynolds oversees Hill and Knowlton's global technology practice. He's a PR guy and one of the best in the business so we went over to find out his view of the PR world as we continue in a cruddy economic climate. We also talk about tips for getting good PR in the social media world."
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