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| Hanging with @mg who is showing me http://vicarious.ly a real-time location tracker. Very cool! See where everyone is checking in! 5 hours ago | |
| @MarcoB i covered what I think on my blog but I still like @foursquare slightly better but @gowalla is coming on strong. 5 hours ago | |
| Just met the @foursquare team and @dens and they say everything is running well so far and they are seeing record traffic. AT&T working well 5 hours ago | |
| @utoopist @jowyang yup, that was me. My son was first in line for the original iPhone. 8 hours ago | |
| Yes, @alextroll I will hold a party for a Microsoft product. Later this year new Halo comes out. I will be in line for that too. 8 hours ago | |
| By the way, YES, we are going to have an iPad celebration party at the Apple store on University Ave in Palo Alto. All night April 2. 9 hours ago | |
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| It is fun watching a ton of people on my Twitter stream order iPads. Me too! 10 hours ago |
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| Laughing Squid : Laughing Squid Expands Its Tentacles to NYC 2 months ago | |
| I'm bummed out! Anyone throwing you a going-away party? | |
| The anti-community list 8 months ago | |
| If you like tech you'll probably like my "likes" list at http://www.friendfeed.com/scobleizer/likes -- that's a good way to find other people to listen to.Read more comments by Robert Scoble | |
| Why YouTube Caps Videos to 10 Minutes 8 months ago | |
| What's funny is people have always told me my videos are too long, but new data from Blip.tv shows they are wrong. People do watch longer videos and their most popular shows are all long-form video folks. The thing is, if you click "play" on a video you're engaged and as long as the content continues to be interesting to you you'll keep watching. No one complains that the SuperBowl is "too long" or that Spiderman was "too long." The idea that online web video can't be longer is totally ridiculous and anyone who says that just hasn't looked at the numbers. Sorry Tamar. YouTube is doing this to protect itself from copyright issues. I've had discussions with the team. As long as you are someone who creates original content and can demonstrate that and you won't use other people's content they'll let you have a director account and let you upload longer videos.Read more comments by Robert Scoble | |
| The anti-community list 8 months ago | |
| Yeah, I forgot about Mr. Tweet because I like AllTop better because of its better breadth and focus on things other than just Twitterers. But yeah, Mr. Tweet is trying to resist the pure temptation to go with just a popularity-driven list. There are others on Twitter too that I see pop up in conversation from time to time, but I can't remember them at the moment.Read more comments by Robert Scoble | |
| Back to Blogging Week (no FriendFeed/Twitter for a week?) 8 months ago | |
| Some people misunderstood when I said I wasn't going to be on Twitter or FriendFeed. I said "I" wasn't going to be on Twitter or FriendFeed, not that my content wouldn't get pushed there automatically. I have so far kept off of those services, although it's very hard. I'm itching bad! :-)Read more comments by Robert Scoble | |
| Drama vs. Helpfulness, how I will rebuild a friendship 8 months ago | |
| I will be at the http://www.travelinggeeks.com tweetup on Sunday. Look forward to seeing you there! Yeah, I actually don't disagree with the point that these communities can get messy and that real time gets messier faster. I guess I was hoping for a little more objectivity. Just a couple of days ago I saw hundreds of Tweets saying that Jeff Goldbloom was dead (he was not). This is NOT a FriendFeed-only problem. My wife was attacked pretty horribly around the Kathy Sierra incident (which so shook her she stopped blogging). This was a problem then and it will be a problem in the future. If Arrington had just packaged it that way instead of making it sound like I had a disease for hanging out on FriendFeed I wouldn't have reacted so. Oh well, we'll see what happens now, I'm off to sleep.Read more comments by Robert Scoble | |
| Drama vs. Helpfulness, how I will rebuild a friendship 8 months ago | |
| Thanks Luke, I think this week might be when I take you up on that offer of going surfing. Thanks for being a friend.Read more comments by Robert Scoble | |
| Things we said today 8 months ago | |
| Steve, I too am sorry about your sister and appreciate your friendship. I’ve said enough on this whole mess (I’m one of the two friends of yours involved here) but Arrington’s framing of it was not to start a serious discussion on this issue. It was to enflame and enrage and it did exactly what it was designed to do and I am sorry I fell for the bait and bit back because it apparently meant the end of our friendship, if you take Arrington’s tweets to be accurate.That said, this has been going on a very long time. Anyone remember the awful things said about me and my wife around the Kathy Sierra thing? That was done on blogs. We didn’t solve the problem then and I don’t believe we will solve it now.The thing is we’ve built a baseball stadium which has more people in it than a baseball stadium (seriously, look at how many followers we all have) and we are passionate people who argue passionately about our point of view.We set this up by gathering a crowd and throwing a game and now we’re going to be mad that the folks in the bleacher seats are yelling invectives and throwing their half-eaten hamburger on the field? Or worse?I’m not sure how we can put this wine back in the bottle given that the cork was lost years ago.I’m sorry for passionately defending my tools and my community from what I saw as a needless attack and a poorly-chosen metaphor.By the way, I found this post in Google Reader and am taking the week off of FriendFeed.Read more comments by Robert Scoble | |
| Drama vs. Helpfulness, how I will rebuild a friendship 8 months ago | |
| Karoli, actually that's what I love about FriendFeed: it's a way to distribute interesting ideas and content. All I have to do is click "like." Compare that to the blogging world. Now I have to go over and check out Lee's videos. If I like them I have to start a post, write some stuff up, link them in, and click publish. Too much work for the most part and not enough added value over that work. But off to watch them I go...keep in mind I'm a geek and health care reform isn't one of the things I track very closely. Better off talking to Francine Hardaway who writes about that topic for Huffington Post.Read more comments by Robert Scoble | |
| Drama vs. Helpfulness, how I will rebuild a friendship 8 months ago | |
| Stephen: I think holdenpage is refering to this thread about Arrington: http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer/6e9ae650/mike-... and this thread by Aaron Brazell: http://friendfeed.com/technosailor/b3abeef3/del...Read more comments by Robert Scoble | |
| Drama vs. Helpfulness, how I will rebuild a friendship 8 months ago | |
| Stephen, I don't delete comments for the most part. Only when they go very hateful (and yours doesn't come close to the line) or racist or they just cross the line with me and I need to get them out of my life. I'm a believer that this is a two-way street and that there's power in treating the audience as a partner rather than some raw materials to use to build something. There have been some darn hateful things written about me over time and I'll defend everyone's right to say those, even though they hurt. But I get where other people are coming from too. Either way, I will try to save my friendship because I enjoyed having the friendship. Remember, I was the first to link to Arrington before he had any industry power and before I got to know him.It's sure not easy being in this industry, though, and trying to participate in live time without an editor and worrying about what the consequences of what you write will be. That said, I got too much into the real time drama and am working to be helpful. That seems to me to be the right side of the line I'll be on. If anyone doesn't like me on that side of the line it'll say more about them than it will say about me.Read more comments by Robert Scoble | |
| Drama vs. Helpfulness, how I will rebuild a friendship 8 months ago | |
| Dave: I never claimed to know more about a technology. I claimed I often knew more about using it. For instance, I am one of the top users of Twitter and FriendFeed. Other people claim to know how these things work, but they never post anything (I see more than one "Social Media Expert" who only has a few followers and a few postings, for instance). I tend to love using new technology and using it into the ground. It often gets me into fights too, because I'm passionate about technology. That's the not good side of things.Read more comments by Robert Scoble | |
| Drama vs. Helpfulness, how I will rebuild a friendship 8 months ago | |
| Perez was doing that to get attention.Read more comments by Robert Scoble | |
| Drama vs. Helpfulness, how I will rebuild a friendship 8 months ago | |
| You're right. But you are continuing the drama here. One of my weaknesses is that when someone attacks tools needlessly (and communities while painting a too-broad-brush) that I have spent thousands of hours on my panties get in a bunch. I'm human. I react badly sometimes. But that's what makes me different from a press release or a media team.Read more comments by Robert Scoble | |
| Drama vs. Helpfulness, how I will rebuild a friendship 8 months ago | |
| holdenpage: well, how do we turn that around and be helpful? Seems like you want the drama to continue. If that's the case, I'll have to figure out how to get you out of my life cause I won't continue to go down that road.Read more comments by Robert Scoble | |
| The future of sex on TV: 8 months ago | |
| I was having fun and took a risk. Sometimes if you are a blogger and always playing it safe you'll be boring. And, anyway, I see other bloggers get tons of engagement by using other similarly stupid attention-getting devices.Read more comments by Robert Scoble | |
| FriendFeeed, Syphilis And The Perfection Of Online Mobs 8 months ago | |
| Mike and Zee: society already has tools to slow down mobs online. Both Iran and China have used them heavily over the past two weeks. I will take the mob anytime. As for “MobFeed” there is a long thread underway over there about your thesis: http://friendfeed.com/scobleiz.....d-his-antiRead more comments by Robert Scoble | |
| CHART: @iJustine’s Plateau Reveals The True Benefits Of Being On The Twitter Suggested User List 8 months ago | |
| Mike: Oprah makes some sense but they put her on after she did just a handful of Tweets. She hasn’t been a very good Twitterer and is on there just because she’s a superstar. Which shows just how this list is used. Brands get onto it because Twitter wants to have a relationship with brands. Superstars get on there because they are the ones who hype up the service. People like Tim get on there because he’s interesting and because he never does anything negative. The rest of us can suck eggs and watch our businesses fall behind others who are given this gift. Think that doesn’t matter? http://www.wefollow.com and other directories pick those who are popular.I both agree that these new “unearned” audiences aren’t very engaged, but they are large enough and there is SOME engagement. In tracking that I’m seeing these large audiences do have a big effect. TechCrunch is watching that effect. Twitter used to be 2% of its traffic. Now it’s about 7%. That’s a sizeable increase in just a few months. Will Techcrunch and Mashable be nicer to Twitter because of this gift? Well, the threat of that is certainly there which is why most journalists aren’t allowed to take gifts and/or need to disclose when they get the gifts and are discussing the company that gave them the gift.Anyway, I’m done arguing with this. I’m off to do more interviews for http://www.building43.com and I’ll live and die on the quality of the content we get there. Arguing about this just takes me away from doing that and I’ve spent enough energy on this topic. Onward!Read more comments by Robert Scoble | |
| CHART: @iJustine’s Plateau Reveals The True Benefits Of Being On The Twitter Suggested User List 8 months ago | |
| Tim: it’s interesting you take the stance you do. I guess if Twitter handed me $100,000 without any supposed strings attached I’d take the same stance you do. But to claim it hasn’t changed the conversation on Twitter is wrong and, I believe, provably so (several people are studying it, so far it’s easier just to build the kinds of graphs that are posted here). I’ve noticed lots of changes in people’s behavior once they get onto the SUL (many accounts are less critical of Twitter, many link outside their own media families a lot less). But gifts don’t need to have an explicit demand associated with them to have an effect. This is why I was kept from accepting gifts of ANY kind when I was at Fast Company Magazine (at least ones worth more than $100, which this gift certainly is).It is NOT a gift without strings, either. The fact that they kept Leo Laporte off of it demonstrates that. The string here is “you must not criticize us if you want to be on the SUL.”I love that the people who say it isn’t an important gift are the ones who were given it. That seems to me intellectual laziness at best and something else at worst.This was engineering laziness and a stab in the back to people who really use the service. After all, @oprah is on the list and she does the worst tweets and is infrequent to boot. What does that tell all the other people who’ve done braver and more interesting work that aren’t recognized? And, sorry, because this affects my business in a very real way I think you’re absolutely on the wrong side of this and it is FAR from only being about me. Guy Kawasaki had more followers than you did. So did Leo Laporte (and he’s even a bona fide celebrity, on radio stations all over the world). So did Jason Calacanis (who has started conferences and businesses). The fact that they aren’t on the list and Oprah (and worse, a stupid made up cat account) are on the list is BS.Read more comments by Robert Scoble | |
| Former Deputy National Security Advisor: Twitter Founders Should Get Nobel Peace Prize 8 months ago | |
| That’s one way to get onto the Suggested User List!Read more comments by Robert Scoble | |
| Redefining FriendFeed 8 months ago | |
| I have been using FriendFeed for 16 months now and spend some time everyday on friend management. Most of my friends have been hand added.Read more comments by Robert Scoble | |
| Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger 8 months ago | |
| Oysters at the Crab Landings restaurant.Read more comments by Robert Scoble | |
| Re: Adding Google Friend Connect is an example of how hard it is to join the 2010 web 9 months ago | |
| Angusb: there I disagree. I don't mind complexity if it's explained. Yes, it would be better to be very simple. This is why Twitter is winning in the marketplace. But there are some things that just can't be simplified down to that level. There you should assume you need to hold someone's hand and explain to them how to thrive in a complex world. | |
| Re: Exploring the 2010 Web 9 months ago | |
| Derik: the thing is, if I showed you how to do it you'd kick yourself when you see how easy it is. But, yeah, if you don't know how it works inside you won't know where to copy and paste the code into. I can see that would be quite daunting. Stay tuned, cause that's what we're working on helping with over on building43.com. | |
| Re: Exploring the 2010 Web 9 months ago | |
| Wordpress isn't, but I thought the code in the template was. Anyway, I understood it enough to know I should leave the server-side code alone. :-) | |
| Re: FriendFeed Simplifies Joining Process from Twitter, Enhances Syncing - louisgray.com 9 months ago | |
| Edwin: I believe Twitter's terms of service doesn't let friendfeed display info for people who are not already signed onto Twitter. | |
| Re: Watch Out Twitter Spamers Got the @replies (and a solution) 10 months ago | |
| Mihai: I delete tons of spam on my blog. I can keep up with a very high level, believe me. And it's far easier to delete spam on friendfeed than it is on my blog (it takes fewer clicks). Plus, my blog gets a lot of spam because it's easy to post a comment anonymously. That's impossible to do on friendfeed (you need a verified email account). You can't delete comments on someone else's node, but I can delete comments underneath MY node (and you can delete comments under yours). This actually works very effectively because most of us are self interested and want to make sure we present a clean room, which is why I delete spam off of my blog.If you actually used friendfeed (your statements here make me believe you don't) you'd see that friendfeed is 100x more resistant to spam than Twitter is. | |
| Re: Watch Out Twitter Spamers Got the @replies (and a solution) 10 months ago | |
| Why is friendfeed more resistant to spam and jerks? For one, if I block you you disappear EVERYWHERE on friendfeed, even on search or DMs. For two, if I start a node I can delete any comment underneath that node. So, the crowd can keep the community clean of spam (friendfeed has very nice decentralized moderation). On Twitter no one can delete anyone else's stuff, even if it's obviously spam or nasty stuff. This will end up being a competitive advantage for friendfeed and it will prove to be difficult for third-party applications to get rid of this stuff in time. | |
| Re: Watch Out Twitter Spamers Got the @replies (and a solution) 10 months ago | |
| Wow, now I know why I've been seeing tons of "bot like" accounts being created on Twitter. Just look at TechCrunch's followers. They are NOT human. I bet there are people creating bot networks to just spam your @replies. Really nasty stuff. This is going to be a lot harder to block than you think. They can just keep reusing the same accounts for a few times until Twitter figures it out. Now I am even more happy I've switched almost my entire life over to friendfeed. You should join me there, the DM feature there is a real pleasure to use compared to Twitter's and the search engine is a lot better too. | |
| Re: The problem with social media for most people 10 months ago | |
| I understand very well that what I experience is not even close to mainstream. But, the only real action is in early adopter land. That's where you'll see who will win tomorrow and why. | |
| Re: It's the little things... (Scripting News) 11 months ago | |
| Thank you Dave for all the great blogs and all the personal help you've given me. You've consistently been one of the first people I read in the morning. | |
| Re: Robert Scoble is right 11 months ago | |
| Thanks, it's amazing the hit pieces that have been written about what I said recently in the PR press. They are so clueless it's amazing and you nailed it. I think these people need to be a blogger for a while to see just how bad it is. If they were, they wouldn't be trying to justify this crap. | |
| Re: asdf 11 months ago | |
| You're being misled by the data. OUR audience is more engaged on friendfeed and Twitter, but if you are a normal person you are FAR more engaged on Facebook. Most "normal people" don't care about what we're writing about. If you look through my 30,000 followers on friendfeed you'll see that about 85% are geeks working in either web or technology industries. That's totally NOT true on Facebook. I bet that if we wrote about Britney Spears we'd get a lot more of our traffic from Facebook than from friendfeed. | |
| Re: Using Advertising to Take Over the World 11 months ago | |
| What I'm talking about does NOT disagree with you. Note that I said you'll look for restaurants. What will come back? The ones your friends have "liked." That still will be advertising, but it won't be anything like what you have seen before. Oh, and the Yellow Pages works the same way. | |
| Re: What will we call a Twitter? (Scripting News) 11 months ago | |
| I want my own Twitter. Dave: how much would you charge to build me one? | |
| Re: louisgray.com: Stand for Something and Become Someone a year ago | |
| Thanks Louis, I appreciate people who keep their word. When I haven't in the past I've felt dirty and it's hurt relationships, so I now keep to these values too. Great post and I always learn a lot from you, don't undersell yourself. | |
| Re: Robert Scoble leaves Fast Company a year ago | |
| Thanks Duncan, that's very kind! | |
| Re: Startup to Broadcast Its Every Move With 24×7 Live Video a year ago | |
| I visited them last week. Here's the video tour behind the scenes: http://www.fastcompany.tv/video/tatango-a-cool-... | |
| Re: louisgray.com: Serial Early Adopters Get It All Wrong a year ago | |
| Nope, you miss why early adopters flee communities after newbies move in. Here's why:If you and I start a community right now, it will be pretty fun at first. We'll cover something we both love. Let's assume it's skiing. We'll talk about places to ski. Gear to use. Techniques. Etc. Great.Well, this will be lots of fun for both of us for about six months. I've seen this happen on all online forums (I've been participating in, or helping run, online communities since 1985).What happens then? Newbies move in. At first that's fun because you have something to share with the newbies. They'll ask about the skiis we were talking about six months ago. Or ask us about the local resorts. That's fun through a few waves of newbies.But let's assume we aren't getting paid. After getting asked 50 times about skis and the local resorts we'll start getting tired of it.And, worse of all, about this time trolls and spammers move into the community, making what we once found a lot of joy in really is getting nasty.So, we turn grumpy, which makes the problem worse "who died and made YOU king?" Soon we both find we just aren't having fun anymore and come back to the forum less and less, which means that newbies are answering newbies, if they care at all (hint: they won't in my observations) and the trolls and the spammers take over and the community dies, a rotting corpse of what it once was.This is actually why friendfeed and facebook are so interesting. They are decentralized communities and are more resistant to these problems than older communities like the ones you'd have found on the Well, Prodigy, Compuserve, or Usenet. Friendfeed, in particular, has decentralized moderation (I can delete comments under my content, but not underneath Louis Gray's). This is really great stuff because it extends the life that early adopters are going to get some value out of it.But it is cool that you can find long-lost friends in facebook and see if there's a new spark that will keep you together this time. | |
| Re: louisgray.com: SocialToo Launches a War Against Auto-DMs a year ago | |
| Thank you! I noticed I was seeing dramatically fewer DM's this morning and now I know why. Great decision, and great service. Thanks Jesse! | |
| Re: louisgray.com: Is Twitter Broken, Or Are We Looking at It Wrong? a year ago | |
| Twitter isn't broken if you just want to send a 140 character message. Unfortunately much of human experience requires more than that. But Twitter +is+ broken for a whole lot of reasons and more and more people will realize that over the next year or two. This time I'm not going to provide consulting for free, cause there are things that Twitter could do to really rock and roll its community, but it isn't listening and that's reason #1 why it's broken. You listen. Louis listens. Where's Twitter? Behaving arrogantly. Why is it doing that? Because @ev got away with that with Blogger. Blogger had tons of spam, was slow, was always down. Yet it sold to Google for tons of money. @ev got rich. So did a few others. Blogger had no real competition. This time is different. Twitter has competition all over from Facebook and friendfeed (and other new upstarts). It'll be interesting to see if @ev is successful with Twitter. I'm finding that I'm cheering for him and his team less and less because they are getting more and more distant from any sense of community and quality. | |
| Re: Robert Scoble is Fake Following a year ago | |
| A year ago I was ahead of both you and Jason by turning off autofollowing. I was also ahead of both you and Jason by using friendfeed to follow a specific group of people.But there is value in following a larger group of people. I was the first American to tell someone else about the Chinese earthquake. A full 45 minutes before CNN did. How did I do that? By media snacking from all my friends.Also, there are a few reasons why I turned on the autofollower a couple of weeks ago (after a year of having it off -- a year, by the way, where you and Calacanis had it on, even after Twitter asked Calacanis if it would be possible to turn it off):1. I wanted to test a new service called socialtoo.com -- it's my job to test the latest social tools and learn the good and bad points. I actually agree with many of your points here.2. Lots of people were DM'ing me, or trying to, and complaining that they couldn't because I wasn't following them. In fact, I am seeing this myself now that I'm using a tool that lets me see DM's (TweetDeck) and react to them. I really hate DMs, and have told everyone many times in the past I didn't want to use them, but they used them anyway and I'm a pragmatist. If people are doing something and trying to do business with me (like pass me news tips) I'm going to do it their way, not force them to live with my weird view of the world. Twitter deserves blame for this because you can only DM people who are following you. This puts social pressure on people to follow more people than they should.3. I am building a news business. You notice that @techmeme is now taking tips. Well, I am doing the same thing with the people I'm following. I'm studying their behaviors. I disagree that I can not follow a pretty substantial randomly selected number of tweets to get a good idea of what's going on with my friends.4. I am getting the best of both worlds and when Twitter adds groups (I hear it's coming soon) I will be able to put my favorite people in a group and do EXACTLY what you are recommending to your readers that they do (follow more closely a smaller group of people).As for why I was mad. When I am misquoted it pisses me off. Thanks for clearing that up. That way we can have a deeper conversation about the issues of who you should follow or not.By the way I did a video about how I follow people yesterday. You should watch it. That's at http://www.kyte.tv/ch/6118-scobleizer/357808-ho... | |
| Re: louisgray.com: Twitter is for Following Topics and Listening, Not for Following People a year ago | |
| Friendfeed is a management tool for tweets. They work together and are not competitive. I will continue using both. | |
| Re: louisgray.com: Twitter is for Following Topics and Listening, Not for Following People a year ago | |
| You can delete one of them. I need to wait for Disqus to do its thing before I go over to the blog. I forget that you have a two-way link to friendfeed for comments. | |
| SmugBlog: Don MacAskill : First 1080p video from Canon's new 5D MkII - Amazing! a year ago | |
| I wish I could afford a new 5D. Wow. Great stuff! | |
| techonomics by Cuneyt Uysal : Internet erodes middlemen: Why is Scoble Surprised? a year ago | |
| I guess that a lot of these changes don't make them apparent until you see them face-to-face. Also, the American media doesn't tell us much about how China really works and what their workers are capable of so we tend to underestimate them. When you visit and get a good tour you see that they are far more skilled than your media tells you they are. I saw a group of workers using a scanning electron microscope. Do you know how to use one of those? I don't. Also, the speed at which things are done here is stunning. | |
| Bwana.org : Streaming While Black a year ago | |
| I totally agree. I have dramatically changed my views, too. No longer do I allow even mere jerks in forums I control. They are welcome to be jerks somewhere else, but if they can't be constructive and come for the conversations they are gonna get deleted more and more in my comment areas, FriendFeed clusters, and on the other sites I have something to do with. It's not just racism, either. The stuff aimed at Kathy Sierra and my wife were very awful things. I have no idea why people want to injure other people, but they do. Even if they don't use sticks and stones to do it. | |
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