This is not the child's actual name: Really Simple Scoble. :-)
- Dave Winer
l dont think its difficult to name a child yall wn l had mine l had to create one which l later found found out to be a beautiful one..as long it has a meaning just do it..
- Pam Gwenzi
___ Soroush Scoble. What a fun game! Robert and Rasputin are likely out. And what a marvelous melding of names; American techie communities are full of cultural mashups. Here's to looking forward to 9/26 for mystery's end.
- Alex Howard
but RSS is a dead technology! </sarcasm>
- Tim Hoeck
Gerber just announced a new line of baby food called RSS Feed. ;o)
- Louis Trapani
from iPhone
My own initials spell out RSS. LT, good one.
- Rob Schieber
Maybe that's not such a good idea, with Steve Gillmor parading around claiming it is dead. XMPP would be more apt, but don't ask me what the initial would stand for. One gnarly name.
- Steven (optionshiftk)
That reminds me of a humorous website where you could input letters like these and it would give you a humorously formed acronym - I remember bookmarking it and cant seem to find it...
- TrafficBug
A Sagres tem um gosto vincado. A Super Bock, não sendo detestável, é "transparente", banalidade pilsner. Bebe-se e isso. Melhor que cerveja espanhola, claro :) De qqforma, a pilsner tende a ser banal. O que não é "mau", note-se.
- Luis Canau
I hate that the keys on my Air have the little shine from my (always) clean fingers no matter what I do. Any tips?
- Steve Rubel
from Bookmarklet
wear gloves? I hated this happening on my old Titanium. I ended up trying to wipe down the computer once a week. The keys were always the biggest challenge
- Jim Goldstein
If I wear gloves I will look like Michael Jackson.
- Steve Rubel
Did I get enough exercise today? How many calories did I burn? Am I getting good quality sleep? How many steps and miles did I walk today? The Fitbit Tracker helps you answer these questions.
- Chris Messina
from Mento
I have to admit - this is the kind of thing I'd want for Christmas. Seems like fun data gathering, and I loves me some data to analyze.
- Shawna Benson
Imagine if the world of Instant Messaging had been under one roof, if one vendor had invented it, and had 100 percent market share. Further, what if that vendor had the foresight that there would be other vendors and that compatibility between their services would make a huge market, and that incompatibility would keep the market fragmented and relatively small. What would that vendor have done?
- Dave Winer
from Bookmarklet
Dave - I don't quite understand your argument for how Twitter could have been the NSOL of microblogging. Are you saying that Twitter should have been the site that binds every other micro-blogging service together?
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I don't understand your question, sorry. All I get from it is your first phrase that you don't understand me. So neither of us understand each other. Oh well. Maybe someone else can bridge the void..
- Dave Winer
Love it Dave. We're having a meta conversation about microblogging. Maybe I'll go craft an old fashioned blog post of my own to try and elaborate/clarify :)
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Another example, I read somewhere on FF the other day that people took a feed from a music room here and added it to iTunes and it knew what to do with it! I feel really proud of that cause it was made possible by some early foundation work I did with RSS, a long time ago, paying off now for users. Exactly the kind of foresight I would like to see Twitter do now.
- Dave Winer
Dave, yes you spot on (once again !). However, twitter doing it is basically like asking like asking water to turn to honey. Only a miracle can make it happen. The underlying architecture of Twitter, really can't support a framework of collaborative sharing of info with other 3rd party vendors. FB did a great job with creating the app that was actually a platform. FF seems to be like this, twitter is ouf of the window.
- Peter Dawson
Do you think the problem lies in the fact that they are a Valley startup that needs to look like something Google or Yahoo would buy and put ads on.
- Harold Gilchrist
from twhirl
Harold, I don't think there's a "problem" -- they're overworked and head-down and faced with an enormous amount of opportunity. It must be hard to sort through it all, and to them, a missive like this from me probably sounds pretty shrill. "Oh there he goes again." I don't blame them for this, but I would be remiss if I didn't put my stake in the ground so we can play Monday Morning Quarterback in 2010 or so. (Murphy-willing, knock wood!)
- Dave Winer
Network Solutions are the worst company ever, i don't know why you related Twitter to them.
- Nicholas James
I suspect that the problems from this past weekend are only going to exacerbate the problem. http://tinyurl.com/5pkpjs Not only have they missed they opportunity, but poor communication and support are seriously eroding the customer base. That the victims of this weekend's situation included several strong Twitter evangelists has unfortunate potential. Even tho the folks involved seem to mostly still carry a fondness for Twitter, their followers witnessed the problems and were involved in the solution.
- Patricia F. Anderson
"Imagine if the world of Instant Messaging had been under one roof, if one vendor had invented it, and had 100 percent market share." Wasn't that *mostly* true of AOL, though? Didn't AOL consolidate their position by buying up ICQ? Didn't they drag their feet for years and years on efforts to make their IM play well with others? By illustrating your point with IM, perhaps you have...
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- Karim
Likewise, Network Solutions is an example of *abuse* of a dominant position: in 1995 they charged $100 to register a domain name for 2 years, which led to an antitrust lawsuit. They've also been guilty of domain name censorship, domain name slamming, subdomain hijacking, domain name frontrunning, selling WHOIS information, etc. ad nauseam.
- Karim
I, for one, am glad their business model didn't become IP of a namespace
- Ross Mayfield
I'm really surprised that this weekend's problems of account closings haven't caused more of a fuss. It seems to me that it would be such a big deal, it would be the final straw that would get most of the major twitter advocates to finally pay attention to the whole issue of federation of microblogging. Also: this is the umptyzillionth thing that's made the thought go thru my mind that they must be *trying* to fail!
- Tegan Dowling
@Karim: While AIM is definitely the dominant IM standard here in the US, it doesn't even come close to being so abroad. People I know in India and Australia, for example, don't even know what "AIM" is. Yahoo and MSN Messengers are both the dominant IM networks there. I think that Dave's example very much reflects why Twitter would have done better in the long-term with an open model.
- Mohit
It would be great to see FriendFeed run their own laconica service (identi.ca).
- Dan Cameron
Isn't Identi.ca exactly what you're looking for? FriendFeed doesn't support multiple instances of FriendFeed, but I'm already party of multiple Laconica (the source of Identi.ca) networks via one seamless interface. There are some kinks, sure, but I'm bowled over by how much they've gotten done in a month.
- Marina Martin
Marina, I am an identi.ca user. How do I follow a user on another laconi.ca server? How do they follow me? Please post a pointer to the docs. This is very important.
- Dave Winer
Dave, when you are on the profile page of a user on another laconica server (such as mine: http://waka.me/wil) just click on the Subscribe button. It will then ask you for your profile URL (yours would presumably be http://identi.ca/dave) then submit the form. Your browser will do an OAuth redirect dance, after which you should be subscribed to me.
- Wil
from MojiPage
Mohit, the market is badly fragmented *now.* QQ is huge in China. Yahoo! and MSN started beta testing interop only in 2006. Google whipped out their checkbook and paid AOL a billion dollars for interop, and even that is lame -- AIM users can't see GTalk users from AIM. My point was that AOL *used to be* the dominant IM, just as Network Solutions *used to be* the largest domain name...
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- Karim
(continued) be different. Maybe "We learn from history that we do not learn from history." -- G.W.F. Hegel
- Karim
"FriendFeed Becomes a New Source for Fast Quotes for Bloggers and Journalists" - Thomas Hawk, from FriendFeed
- Steve Isaacs
haha, go for it Chris, meta, meta, meta.
- Thomas Hawk
Takes the 10 second soundbyte to a new level. As a source, scareee. Now we have a long thread about Disqus and the rights of comments.
- anna sauce
meta verse launches inside FF - my vision... LOTS of blogs will move here, and many new ones will start here!
- Susan Beebe
I'd like to let everyone know that I'm charging $10 per quote. I accept PayPal. :)
- Mike Doeff
Actually I think blog comments, posts, etc. have always been fair game for journalists to use. They are public posts. But I think the immediacy of FF and the ability to selectively target a subject is what might give it utility for blog and journalism quotes. Exactly how Marshall used it. I'm writing an article about XYZ, what are your thoughts, etc. Efficient.
- Thomas Hawk
Yes. Let's incorporate our FF comments. Let's make a chart like the AP did. And let's also blow off CC and fair use. And absolutely NO satire. In fact, not one little hint of an iota of a smidgen of irony. Hey, if it works for the Associated Press, we can be idiotic, too! yay!
- Christine Cavalier
I wonder if anyone ever used to use Usenet or message boards in this way: to crowdsource interview material?
- Mark Dykeman
Mark: more then than now, using bbs's, talkers, usenet or boards and forums to "crowdsource interview material" was/is common practice...
- Marcos Marado
It's already happened for me with Twitter --journalists have quoted me there
- Jeremiah Owyang
Twitter needs to add a mass delete button for Scoble.
- Mike Fruchter
I don't think twitter wants anything else that lets Scoble do things in mass
- Stefan Hayden
I'm thinking of hiring a virtual assistant just to answer all my socnet & email msgs, & sort out only the ones I really need to answer myself. Seriously, no time to do it all & do my own actual work. I may even have the V.A. poke people back on FB!;-)
- Cathryn Hrudicka
LOL @ Cathryn's response! OK I need one too!! How the hell does Robert keep up with all this *noisy* stuff anyway?
- Susan Beebe
@directeur I totally agree with you on that one. If someone is serious about contacting me, then they should send an email. That way I can actually respond in more than 140 characters. The character limit is fine for posting to Twitter, is sucks for real communication. Also, Robert is right, often the FailWhale prevents you from even responding to a DM.
- Scott Beale
That's hilarious. I tried doing that on my voicemail message and the telemarketers don't seem to care.
- Clay Newton
So, regarding the direct message fail whale -- a simple app that uses the API to delete direct messages would be perfect, no?
- Phil G
TV is not a total waste of time, Video on the web is not a total waste of time. Watching a talking head drink coffee and orange juice and pontificate is however a total waste of time.
- Brian Sullivan
Brian, thank you so much for your compliments
- Loic Le Meur
I was afraid you've lost your mind; too much sun, too much wine at your last brunch ;) you've scared me! Seesmic, a waste of time!? wow...
- ledretch
from twhirl