DISQUS

Great that ik can put facebook in with twitter in one window. What is the gripe with AIR apps? It is develope once deploy everywhere! Developing on many platforms is a curse. Hiring an UI expert is money netter spent imo

This technology is not helping. It's biting your butt - Remember that GTD tip with email - check every 2-3 hours! You could do that with Friendfeed, twitter, facebook, whatever - I could anyway and I do

You say it like Adobe are messing about. But how come everything has Flash except Apple. In this case Apple is gouging it's own eyes out. I am looking for a smartphone in the 2nd half of this year. I won't even consider the iPhone without flash and proper video support. I am practically certain that Abobe has much more costs developing for iPhone than any other platform with no results to show to date. My feeling is that Apple is demanding an inferior flash product.

The way I see it Apple got ahead of the field and now is trying to hold everyone up with veiled lawsuit treats for their IP, meaning they are unwilling to license technology (they did not invent, only patented) that will improve all our user experiences.

Google is clever, has a mobile OS for lots of carriers and devices. It also has lots of services and they are not android dependent. Latitude is a great example. I am not sure if you can build on top of latitude... like could you stick Brightkite on it? That would be cool.

What bugs me is that Apple did not invent this. They just patented it. They will also not license it to competitors to their advantage. As I said earlier, it is holding back everyone. I just hope that Nikolay is right when he mentions the heuristics aspect to the patent.

While you all dance cheerfully on PALM's grave "maybe" this goes to prove that the patent laws impede innovation. The iPhone with it's less is more approach makes it easy to beat because it is missing a ton of features. I don't hate Apple, but my respect for them is dwindling rapidly.

@Isolabella twitter is about conversation... networking. It's flat! I can talk to Pete, Scoble, Mike Arrinton, Britney Spears ;), Steve Rubel. How amazing is that? I think it's amazing. That's all that counts

Twitter is important, it's growing, has enormous possibilities and lots of changing context's. Also lots of apps. being built on top of it :) But it's not everything.

I'm an old palm fan who lost the faith. This looks very convincing. The web OS and synergy looks amazing and the low barrier for widgets shows they mean business. I hope they do really well with this

interesting how you call 'your community' an army. That changes the dynamics quite a bit. I hope you come to Europe some time to do this :)

99% agree with you. IMO Technorati 'authority' does not work if you are outside the valley crowd, if it even really works there. One disagreement, I use favourites to mark tweets a lot but I am one of the few I know who do. Since it has low usage - I'm not sure how useful it is.

Great that you are blogging more again

Thanks, but that setting is on. It does not seem to work. Thanks for the tip though :)

duh! you've got a point :) The chrome 'search feature' in the url bar never works for me

Weird! That is one feature I really want to see in Chrome. I have 1.0, but that feature is not showing up at all

I live in 'mainland Europe' a small island off the English coast. Does any one know when Amazon is going to start selling mp3's there or is the market just too small?

Yup twitter is my weapon of choice. I also find a distinct 'lack' of conversation over at friendfeed. I don't hate friendfeed at all, it's just I really love twitter (a love which faded after the May downtimes, but is totally back).

With facebook and last years beacon drama - let's say I have trust issues. But I do use facebook a lot and it works so well for me. I have a site with a small community which has gone stale, but on facebook I've been doing lots of stuff with that crowd. When I get my site going again - there will have to be a facebook presence.

Googles FC is cool, in that it's simple. But Google, Yahoo, AOL and OpenID are not serious players in the social networking sphere - at least not in my opinion. Google are going to have to work very hard and be very social, very out there promoting it, being very unGoogle if they want this to be successful. I hope they take it seriously and do promote it like mad. There is so much you could do with this and they need to start creating the waves with cool stuff and 1 or 2 great evangelists. Then they can win imo.

7digital's prices look like they are 40-odd% higher. I can't wait for them to go out a business :p I'm very pleased with the arrival of the amazon mp3 store!

Great video there Robert. You know it's a shame that you can't get facebook video's onto other platforms to (to ember in blogposts for example). Their loss is Kytes win... for now. Nice to see Cisco doing something which I think is cool and that they are hiring bloggers to converse!

funny that you use gmail.com. I use yahoo.com to back up. But gmail has never locked me out :)

wait til after the election. If McCain - Palin win it, then yes you are in trouble. But you can't do what you are doing from any other base in the world. No other kid could have grown up anywhere else in the world in the 70's like you did. America made you and heck it's OK. Still I can't talk. I left a religiously over zealous Ireland in the early 80's. Once I left the place picked up a little ;)

I notice how intolerant the far right can be. Maybe it's time to be an intolerant liberal and stop their nonsense.

spot on Paul. What also misses the mark is the last tweet bit. The last tweet before I unsubscribe means nothing. Last christmas I tweeted like 'Scoble' and lost quite a few followers, once I stopped eating sweets ;) and calmed down again the fallout disappeared

You need to print everything a few times and save it at various locations around the world. It might just survive then. But what happens if one of the smaller video hosting guys goes bust... or a photo sharing site... yeah I have the stuff somewhere... but will I go to the trouble all over again? If one of these services were to go down then I hope a big player would step in to offer support in moving assets

Funny you say that. Today I have a twitter meetup. Going for a drink with the local twitter crowd. Over 2 weeks I'm eating with fans of TED Talks and next month I've organized a Flickr photo walk. These networks get me in contact with lots of people I might never meet. But then we can take it back sometimes to the face to face again and actually meet people whom we bump into online. I live in the Netherlands. But in London there are Facebook events as well :)

Well 'shiver me timbers!' just what I needed. Friday is 'talk like a pirate day' ARGH!