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I have installed it on Ubuntu Netbook Remix on my Acer Aspire One, largely for the experience to see how it would perform versus Firefox. It definitely works, and is pretty snappy, but the huge missing chunks of function at the moment are a bit of a roadblock!

One of my friends who moved to Canada recently mentioned these guys and I picked up their album last week - I'm enjoying it too! Couldn't find it on eMusic in the UK though :-(

As a follow-up to the last comment, you could also check out IBM's messaging solutions - WebSphere MQ, MQTT, MQLLM etc. which all do pub/sub messaging.

Wow... total FAIL huh!

Yay Panolab!

I've never been to a Web 2.0 Expo before, and I have to say that I've been to a few talks here this week and listened to the starts, and thought "hmm, why are we going over this old ground?" - but there are a few perspectives to remember. Firstly, as Tim suggests, some (many) enterprises are coming to this for the first time. Secondly, I'm *in* this space so I've been following it all. Finally, I think there *are* interesting new directions being mentioned this week, even if some of it appears to be "boilerplate / context / what is Web 2.0" stuff - it has been useful.

Don't baristas normally make coffee? So that's what you mean when you say you're getting coffee?

Well, I can see that Twitter must have been completely bleeding cash as usage mounted. One option is that they could introduce a fee-based service, of course. I'm not hugely upset by the loss of this service... although I used it initially, lately I've relied on DMs coming through email (which I accept are not going to be always accessible from the phone), and use a combination of Hahlo and Twinkle on the iPhone for posting or reviewing messages. But then, I made the choice of the iPhone explicitly knowing that it would enable me to be online in this manner, with an all-I-can-eat data subscription... and again I realise that isn't the case across Europe.

I'm not sure this is enough to make me switch to another service, as the majority of my network is still on Twitter. It will be interesting to see what happens though, as you and a number of my other contacts are commenting that this is a major issue. Presumably other services that might offer SMS updates will also ultimately have to suck up this cost, or start charging us for it.

Well it's variable anyway - Scoble is on 21,000. The number is crazy anyway.

I have to say I completely agree. To me, Twitter is a stream to dip in and out of and I don't want it taking over my desktop. Some great analysis here Whitney.

Wow. I only just caught this... evidently I missed the tagging when I saw the original post, and the link only just showed up in my blog dashboard.

Um... I kinda dislike memes too. I might have a think about this one, but I'm kind of guessing that I'm not even going to be able scrape up 8 facts, let alone 8 people to tag.

Kind of amused that I'm the opposite on flying / travelling - absolutely fine once I'm up there but I tend to dislike the process of getting through the airport and hotels and all that stuff associated with travelling.

Well this is an interesting analysis. I recently had a BlackBerry Pearl foisted on me, and I can say that I'm unimpressed - I think my speed of typing was faster on a traditional phone SMS text keyboard with predictive text. It's worse than that as the applications generally have appalling ease of use, too. From the little I've played with iPhones, I'd say their apps win out on ease-of-use, but I'm not sure about the keyboard... I think I'd actually agree with your view that sensory feedback is going to be missing.

Interesting that the BlackBerry Thunder is all touchscreen. I wonder whether they are following the iPhone styling crowd just because they "have to".

LOL - scary....

Hi Whitney, Heidi recommended your blog to me as I was following the IA Summit remotely.

There's a Wordpress plugin called Twitter Tools which will automatically publish your tweets as blog posts but it will only do a daily digest, I think... not exactly what you wanted here, on a per-session basis.

I actually find that sticking my Technorati profile in there makes a complete mess of the results for how my sites are connected, since I write for some group blogs so I end up seeing data for other people who share those blogs. It actually works OK for my own connectedness - in fact, as you say, it is quite effective based off of the Technorati profile, but that's likely because I have things like Twitter in there as well. So I guess the net is that it's an interesting experiment, but not very useful. I also can't easily instrument links as being "me" on WP.com, unless I go and hack at my pages I suppose. Oh well.

I paid about twice that - £5. It's still a cheap price for the UK... my justification being essentially the same as yours, and since I wasn't getting particularly high bitrate MP3s with no album art or embedded lyrics of anything (and I can download good DRM-free albums with artwork etc. from CDBaby for around the same price, or less).

It's an interesting experiment. On last week's Dogear Nation podcast they mentioned this thing called TuneCore which might be an attractive option for independents who want to release music... no idea what it is like though.

Looks really nice.

I already use onXiam for storing my identities, though. Also I can't embed this in WP.com... :-(

Still, a neat solution.

I'm having exactly the same issue with photos taken at HackDay and last week's Flickr party in London - so this is definitely worth doing. Thanks for the tutorial, Steph :-)

How interesting! Congratulations, and good luck.

I tuned in via the website (having seen your tweets) and thought you handled the questions very well - the whole thing about the overblown victimisation was bound to provoke a challenge from the interviewer and you gave a good answer.

Looking forward to watching your presentation tips later, can't really watch the video right now - but the audio episode 5 of FLS was good, caught that at the weekend. Keep it up! :-)

Geoff: enjoy the invite ;-)
So Luis IM'd me to ask for an invite on behalf of Euan Semple which was destined for Geoff. There's social networking for you!

I agree that Dopplr's simplicity is a strength at the moment. I was actually also reading your post about Twitter usage (with a list of implied improvements they could make), and wondered whether all the features you could add to a service like this are going to improve it or not.

What's missing? Hmm. They already state / imply that they will add some contact management features, and I think that will help. I also mentioned to mattb that integration with e.g. Upcoming makes a lot of sense... if that can happen without Yahoo! acquiring the hell out of them :-)

Basically I'm relatively satisfied. I've taken to adding a note to any invites I send that the person I've invited needs to add me in order for me to see their trips - it's a little counter-intuitive coming from other social networks, but a good way of managing access.

It's worse than just the names of the Times feeds being questionable. I find that the content is mixed up, too. For instance, i frequently see political or sports-related stories in the Entertainment feed. They responded to my feedback to say that they are addressing the problems "as a matter of urgency", but I don't see any evidence of that.

Nice round-up.

Maybe it is just me, but "Watch it, surf it, talk it, walk it." sounds remarkably like the current Sky advertising for their TV, phone and broadband services.

An analysis of search terms is already pretty fun. What about the more obscure ones?

I'm subscribing as of now...