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Re: I want control of my data (Scripting News)

Jason Bogovich — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:20:51 -0000

Hi Dave, I've been stuck on live.com for years. I've started my own Wordpress blog but I'm still working out the kinks on getting my data off of live spaces. Google Summer of code produced a nice little python script to pull data off but Microsoft (I thinK) embeds random unicode which blocks an easy exit.

My time on Live spaces has been pretty great, but I want a copy of my data so that I can move it myself.

What we are proposing is a static form of data ownership. A dynamic form of ownership would consist of true semantic author properties which at the press of a button could be pulled from multiple sites at once. I'd love to join a team that could start whiteboarding the architecture on something like that. Sometime in the future after everyone has a local backup on a cloud, we will want to start backing up our web data locally. Okay, I'm taking things a little too far but it would not surprise me to see this if a real "Open Social" were to be the dominating factor. Ultimately, it will take people like Dave and Doc pounding on the table to make it happen. Great post.

Re: The simplest podcast API ever (Scripting News)

Jason Bogovich — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:54:50 -0000

Dave, I'm sure you know this but creating innovation is simply adding customer value. It doesn't matter whether they pay or not, if you deliver new value, like with flikrfan, you are innovating. I always thought the same thing, it had to be some new revolutionary concept. Little chunks of innovation make the word go round these days.

Re: It’s hard to do original when there’s nobody to listen

Jason Bogovich — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:23:18 -0000

Steven: you are absolutely right! Also, more and more, we will see this division of old school & younger bloggers. Diversity of thought occurs and is good. Techmeme compels a growing number of quality bloggers to be a part of a conversation and it's the diversity of thought in which we can quantify or even qualify our own thinking.

The whole thing reeks of green envy; it doesn't even make sense as these part time bloggers do it for free most of the time, they (we) do it because they love it, they present bias free rhetoric on a growing variety of subjects in which they are increasingly becoming more adept at analyzing and presenting.

Steven, there will always be a few jaded I don't feel like everyone thinks I"m important enough people out there who will always find a smaller person to whack, it's the visual worlds equivalent to kicking the dog.

Re: 2007/04/19/petition-against-alexas-statsaholic-lawsuit/

Jason Bogovich — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:29:06 -0000

In light of a company who's ideals support a mashup of the internet, you should have at least extended an offer to this small developer, what he was doing was making the web better, not doing something bad. Protect your assets without a forked toungue, offer to buy the company or extend a business relationship to them, your brand is your most important lawsuit and I think the value that it just lost would have covered the purchase of this company.

Re: 2007/04/19/petition-against-alexas-statsaholic-lawsuit/

Jason Bogovich — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:30:29 -0000

What I meant to say is: In light of a company whoâ€™s ideals support a mashup of the internet, you should have at least extended an offer to this small developer, what he was doing was making the web better, not doing something bad. Protect your assets without a forked toungue, offer to buy the company or extend a business relationship to them, your brand is your most important asset and I think the value that it just lost would have covered the purchase of this company.

Re: News! Companies are hiring!

Jason Bogovich — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:52:11 -0000

Hey guys, it's the first time I have heard that a blog can get you a job. Can you expound on this a bit? I always assumed that putting a blog address in a resume would weed you out--making the employer think you would be doing this (blogging) during work hours.

Take my blog for instance, nothing incredible, just my two readers and I talking about tech stuff. All that proves is I follow trends in technology and know the killer apps when they come out. How does this translate into the perfect hire, who writes bug free code, and does it fast?

Thanks for the great blog Scoble.

Re: Scott Adams blogs a Blackberry using rule breaker

Jason Bogovich — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 09:44:11 -0000

There is also a concern that, we would not be able to listen clearly to signals from outerspace if there were thosands of users on their cell phones in the air. The group of scientists who do this line of work, were the number one lobbying group against the FCC's recent look into lifting the cell phone ban on planes.

Re: Ross doesn’t trust Microsoft’s approach to Web

Jason Bogovich — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:02:39 -0000

1. This isn't the most important thing to embrace for Microsoft as this window of VC funding won't last for ever.

2. Microsoft should offer some type of entry level price for start-ups and such where what the start up pays, grows with how much business they do.

3. Microsoft has been working on modularizing Windows Server, and I am sure they will get better at it. They are doing to best when it comes down to monitoring systems, and ease of use. It seems like there is so much FUD floating around to even carry on a noraml coversation with some people.

4. Two things Microsoft needs to work on, making Microsoft's tools accessible to low budget business, like a startup, and making their tools and servers more modular.

Re: The new Robert Scoble Services agenda

Jason Bogovich — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:27:03 -0000

Nice Post Robert. Yeah, I like all of the excitement of late, I just hope that the web's value continues to increase. There is a limit to what ajax can do.

Re: Yahoo’s new pretty maps are doomed (and so are Microsoft’s)

Jason Bogovich — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:54:44 -0000

MSN has not launched their AdCenter yet. So let's say that John Doe wants to advertise Viagra, well he goes to Google's adsense page and checks out the auction for the word, wow a crap load of money per click through.

Well that just won't do, you see! Let's head over to MSN. Now, there are less advertisers. Now it doesn't matter how popular the placement of advertisement is, we are paying for clickthroughs, so as long as some people see it, I am getting more click throughs per dollar.

So in a nutshell, Supply and Demand, it's the weakness to googles advertising market. Supply and demand states that everyone will profit the same. No one cares wether the add is an MSN one or a GOOGLE one, especially if they look alike. What do you think Robert? Will MSN start collecting some pie once they get their Advertising program running on all four wheels?

Re: Yahoo’s new pretty maps are doomed (and so are Microsoft’s)

Jason Bogovich — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:05:57 -0000

Great Points Erik, and I agree with you. But I think the most important thing is, advertisers don't give a damn how nice your widgets are, they are looking for value in their advertising dollar. If MSN is less popular, and they sell in auction format, just like Google, they will Steal money from Google.

Which, my friends, is THE ONLY REASON Microsoft is doing any of this web stuff in the first place.

Re: Yahoo’s new pretty maps are doomed (and so are Microsoft’s)

Jason Bogovich — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:10:43 -0000

And anyway, the point was that you didn’t use the Yahoo maps correctly and it’s not right to criticize yahoo for something you don’t know how to do.

I disagree. Users are always right my friend.

Re: Live.com to get Firefox support “very, very soon”

Jason Bogovich — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:54:27 -0000

Call me a non-influencial, but support for Firefox is just a plus, when compared to: I couldn't get the damn thing working in IE when it was launched. Most of the RSS feeds would not open up correctly, the only recent product that impressed me even less was Google's RSS Reader. Couldn't even chew up OPML.

Having said that: Start.com and now Live.com are two of the best RSS readers I have used to date. Scott Issacs and team deserve KUDOS for such a great product. If they sucked, you "Influencials" wouldn't even care if it supported Firefox.

A promise to support Firefox "very soon" is fine with me. I can't use Firefox at work anyhow.

Re: Thanks Pittsburgh!

Jason Bogovich — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:14:53 -0000

Go Steelers! My dad grew up in pittsburgh. Big Steelers fan here. I have been to Pittsbugh on many occasions and I must say I like the place better than any city in Ohio, Cincy being the nicest city here. I've never checked out all of the cool computer/learning stuff out there of course.

Re: Thanks Pittsburgh!

Jason Bogovich — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:15:45 -0000

I wish I would have known you were going to be close to town Robert, I would have grabbed a coffee or two with ya.

Re: Hell to get colder: Slashdot has headline that says “Why Vista won’t suck”

Jason Bogovich — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:57:45 -0000

Scoble. Slashdotters can be commies who eat ramen noodles 365 but they do have some good points some times. I like these comments. Are you taking notes on any of this stuff? Does Microsoft have a Windows ToDo Doc on an internal sharepoint server?

What I do want is a file system that doesn't fragment, better performance on my current hardware than XP, and some hard disk health-monitoring system. I want a media player that doesn't need to connect to Microsoft.com every time I open it. I want upgrades to the built-in suite of apps like Paint, WordPad, etc. I want to make my own skins and use them without adding 3rd party software. I want to have the option to keep transfering files if one fails to copy. I want QuickLaunch enabled by default, and I want a Default User Editor so I can easily edit the system for other accounts.
I don't want a bloody "Automatic Defragmenter" to "fix" a problem that should have been fixed ages ago. I don't want to pay for MS Hotmail to work with MS Mail. I don't want IE7 to save my typed URLs in the already bloated registry, don't want anything beyond my History.

I don't agree 100 percent but he's got some good pointers.

Re: Hell to get colder: Slashdot has headline that says “Why Vista won’t suck”

Jason Bogovich — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:40:09 -0000

I normally don't cause a fuss. I decided it's important that I make at least a small stand. I won't be buying any Microsoft OSes until I see they have fixed the Copy algorithm from the 70's or 80's. If one file fails, they all fail. Come on, it's 2006!!!

Oh, and Cody. You represent a very small amount of uber geeks that use PC's for a narrow scope of things. What are you running a spam image farm? Crunching sounds for Yeti burps? I agree, Explorer in it's present form is a bloat but still. It's pretty bad but games released in 98 take up less resources than IE or Explorer. That's about to increase... Let's hope it's not by much...

Oh, I just have to say that "Let windows Rate your hardware game" is genious. How much did intel pay Bill for that feature!!! Give em an F Bill.. make him feel like an old timer loser with a computer that is SO 2005.

Re: Hell to get colder: Slashdot has headline that says “Why Vista won’t suck”

Jason Bogovich — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:45:40 -0000

Yeah, and tell it to Konfabulator you monkey!

Re: Hell to get colder: Slashdot has headline that says “Why Vista won’t suck”

Jason Bogovich — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:55:00 -0000

Hari, I just got the new Maytag... Very nice.. I can order a new water filter for it by pressing a button on the front!! Oh, and it keeps the soda cold!! =)

Re: The John Dvorakification of the blogosphere (I’m signing off of Memeorandum)

Jason Bogovich — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:54:47 -0000

Let's not forget the intended purpose for Memeorandum: A quick fix. Yeah, sometimes when I sit down with my first morning coffee I don't have time (yeah, I guess I have work to do) for downloading 100 percent of the info I probably want my brain to have so I head to Memeorandum and see what all the fuss is about. They should rename it techfuss.com It's available. Now, Mememorandum is also a great Geek Drama-o-Meter.

If this is the only place you ever get your news then you probably don't have your calendar blocked off enough. Personally, I don't know if I would totally ignore anything Robert.

Re: Seeing Origami

Jason Bogovich — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:38:01 -0000

Robert, is it a Crestron Killer?

Thanks

Re: Seeing Origami

Jason Bogovich — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 22:34:45 -0000

Haven't you ever tried a man purse on?

Just kidding. I just hope it ties in with my home security and MCE and HVAC, and hell, tell me how long till I have to reorder the water filter in my fridge!

Re: Seeing Origami

Jason Bogovich — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 22:35:44 -0000

Turn the light on out in the garage with it.. stuff like that.

Re: The new A list

Jason Bogovich — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:02:53 -0000

Hey Robert, This must be pretty personal for you. I don't think blogging is the right medium for this type of argument. I don't know whether Dave is right on this one or not, but there were some thing which were said that made his character seem a little less good willed or a good person so to speak. I guess business is business, but I think you make a case for dirty business having no place on blogs. I don't know if it has anything to do with A lists, or B lists, we all pull our pants up in the morning.

We have to cherish a world where the inventors are giving some elbow room to do what they do best. The thoughtful ones need not have their thoughts stolen by indecency. However, should the inventing mind move to harm others for personal gain, they stand to face the same punishment that all others would get and deserve to get, I don't know whether that's public humiliation though, and I don't think it has any place in today's blogs.

Re: Yes, our Web site branding sucks

Jason Bogovich — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 23:13:32 -0000

Forgive me but I think Windows Live is actually one Microsoft got right. It ties in with another very successful and innovative Microsoft product and service, Xbox Live.

To me it makes perfect sense.

Windows Live will be the primary service platform from Microsoft when you are in your office.

Xbox live is the online service which you will use in the living room.

I have actually been working on some ideas that I am going to share with Microsoft on mashing the two services. Basically you could put certain gadgets and feeds and other services into xbox.live.com (doesn't exist yet) and consume and share them on your 360 with your online friends there.

At any rate, if you are using a modern software/hardware combo and browser (hopefully it will get faster) Windows Live search is 1000 better a front end and more useable to advanced users than Google search. (which doesn't help much if you still must become more relevant)

The one complaint I have with Live search is you can't increase text size inside the kick ass scroll window because of the scroll window itself, and the code likes to kill iexplore.exe.

MSN, IMHO hits it's target audience pretty well too. I increasingly consider MSN as Microsoft's product for baby boomers. Nothing too fancy, just oldschool research into what users like in a portal.

Overall, I think Google's branding is outdated, but done in a way which makes it more usable. Which is fine I guess, but I wish they would do more work on their interfaces.

Re: Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?

Jason Bogovich — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:35:15 -0000

Perhaps the difference between this dialog and the one you would have had a few months ago has to do with the facts you are searching for. Biggest doesn't mean anything if you're not the best for the most people.

Re: “Where’s the blog?” in Windows Live Spaces?

Jason Bogovich — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:24:33 -0000

Robert, are you stressesd out or something? Never have a seen a post like this from you. So spaces has a lot of spam, who the hell doesn't. Spam just means you are doing something right.

At any rate, a web log is what it is, a web log. Some say a picture is worth a thousand words, and if some choose to log their life through their experiences in photagraphy then so be it.

But you know what, I am a geek and I'm not a bit ashamed of using live spaces. I really don't follow a-listers. They don't tell me what to use, I make my own mind up.

But getting back to your point... Oh, who has the most bloggers.. why the hell is this important anyhow? What matters is who has the best blogging service. Live writer is damn cool and if you want to be an evanglist for the company you work for talk about the cool stuff you all are doing, stop with the live bashing.

Re: AppleTV: Xbox without the “X?”

Jason Bogovich — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:32:13 -0000

The more Mac products you own, you understand less and less about who is doing the real innovating. Take the iPhone for example, much nicer looking gadget than any other phone on the market.But My XDA Exec can do ten times what the iPhone can do, has 3G and was released over a year ahead of the iPhone. I think I'll keep my investment in software not bother with the iPhone.

Now, Steve likes to cry fowl, he thinks his products are so good that no one else in the market should even try to compete. Him and his buddy Al Gore also give themselves way too much credit for doing the innovating. Now, I like how many patents there are for the iPhone... Let's give it to Apple they did a great job with it. However, 95 percent of the innovation that went into that phone DIDN'T come from Apple. Steve just takes all of that for granted, including not giving credit to all of the other guys out there for building the market and bringing down the price so that phones like that are even affordable.

Steve Jobs would have had me as a customer a long time ago if he would have stuck to his products merit alone. I have a hard time liking a product, when the company is as full of itself as Apple. As a general rule, you shouldn't like yourself or your product anymore than your customers do, and Steve loves his products better than the most rabid "knocks old people over and tramples them to death, to get to the front row of the MacWorld Stage" bitter MacFreak.

Having said that good for you Microsoft, for doing more convergence in the living room than Apple will ever do. Scoble, you are usually right on, is Apple paying you to have that opinion or something?

Re: AppleTV: Xbox without the “X?”

Jason Bogovich — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:18:17 -0000

Jeff, you lost all credentials when you said that 1080p is only marginally better than 720p. Like most mac fans (not sure if you are really one or not) you are talking without doing your fact checks.
Seriously, it's possible you are watching content that wasn't designed for 1080p. 1080p is leaps and bounds greater than 1080i and/or 720p. MUCH MUCH MUCH more data with 1080p. I'm not sure where you arrived at your conclusion. Oh, and btw, Microsoft has done all of the innovation in the living room, Apple has done nothing but follow Microsoft's path.

Don't call me a fanboy either because I run Linux, and so I don't want to hear anything about DRM either because both M$ and Apple are infested with it. If you own a macbook do yourself a favor and install yellow dog or something. :)

Re: AppleTV: Xbox without the “X?”

Jason Bogovich — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:19:20 -0000

One possibility I didn't think of is that your screen is too small... 1080p really shines above the rest when you get the really large screens.

Re: AppleTV: Xbox without the “X?”

Jason Bogovich — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:20:28 -0000

Scoble, I read your paragraph really fast and didn't pick up the sarcasm. You are absolutely right. People don't want to give Microsoft credit where it's due.

Re: AppleTV: Xbox without the “X?”

Jason Bogovich — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:37:03 -0000

I think everyone is missing one big point. Some folks made the big mistake of thinking Steve Job's Stole the show at CES when the only thing he stole was a Cisco trademark. The partnerships what were made at this CES alone will amount to more installed Microsoft home ecosystems than Apple TV's sold all next year. If you look at the hotels out there, if you look at the new 1million dollar homes, they are all running Microsoft.

Steve jobs in his "I love myself more than even my own mom" kind of way forgot one important thing. To think you are too good for the "CEDIA" market is a big mistake. Once these gear heads learn about media center, that's all they'll talk about, when the new homeowner looks at his options that the builder gives him, Microsoft will be the only vendor on the sheet. I said it once before and I'll say it again, Microsoft will remain the leader in the living room for the foreseeable future. Al Gore fanatic types with an Apple logo on their minivan are the target audience for this type of thing, people who need Apple to feel special as far as I can tell. Or I guess that's the best I can make of it. If you try to tell me the 360 is hard to operate (when working) then we need to get you a VCR.

Re: Netflix is dead

Jason Bogovich — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:52:17 -0000

Holy Jeepers, the big news here is the fact that Adobe is already bloating and misusing a web technology that under Macromedia's watch was ALWAYS very very scrutinized for it's size and many features never made it in the flash player simply because Macromedia was paying a lot of attention to how many users were able to download the latest player in a certain amount of time.

The second reason this has me worried is we all know how long it takes to open a PDF file, hell, there are even liposuction techniques out there that will kill 90% of the adobe readers bloat (and thus loading time of pdf files) (just regsvr32 /u a bunch of dlls).

Now we have to wonder how great a platform the flash player will be when Adobe stuffs it full of garbage to the highest bidder. Why can't they just keep the relevant technologies in their format? Create a new standard and don't kill the thriving flash community over it. Bittorrent works fine, but thanks. You can even use RSS via bittorrent clients if you all didn't know. You get home and you have you content already downloaded.

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

Jason Bogovich — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:22:51 -0000

First a few facts about Steve Jobs and Apple, and then let's sit back and try to remember why we idolize this company.

1. Steve Jobs loves himself more than his mother does.
2. Steve loves his products more than his customers do.
3. Steve is the first to cry fowl when someone copies off of something that was thought of in Cuppertino.
4. Steve makes sure his company copies only the best of his compition, but unlike his competition, he calls all of it his innovation and doesn't give credit where it's due. (A sign of lack of character)
5. The iPhone is great (bother companies iPhones actually) but Steve fails to admit that 95 percent of the innovation that went into it was done outside of apple. Most of it from Redmond as well as Palm and HTC and all those other great companies who have hard working employees as well. (their bosses don't yell at them like children after working 90 hours like Steve Jobs does)
6.Apple is the only company that doesn't get grilled in today's collaborative "Web 2.0" world for not opening up and--Christ--even Microsoft designs sites that work in Firefox. I suggest we all start forcing apple to live up to the same standards as everyone else.

At some point, I must separate myself from the Oooh Ahhh Niicce I think I'm cool because I wear an apple logo on my minivan crowd and take a stand against Apple. I will not support a company that acts like this any longer and I will continue to see people through a filter when they say things like Steve Jobs is great or something close to that.

Re: Scoble’s a shill … more details

Jason Bogovich — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:33:20 -0000

Robert, I think you are experiencing tension created by a winter depression. I've been a feed reader of your for quite a long long time and I've never seen you get like this. Here's my advice, leave all of your gadgets at home (maybe even your cell phone) get on a plane and find some place to wiggle your toes in the sand. Before you get back, get on the phone and order your self a nice 30" monitor from Dell (I just got one) and get some nice 2560x1600 rez beach photos to use as wallpaper. You can even bring your camera and then take them yourself.

You seem to have lost touch with why everyone enjoys reading you, it's the excitement that you have about technology, the bickering is best left for the old unhappy people of the Nytimes and WSJ. Get back to your roots man. Maybe reinvent yourself or something.

Re: Steve Jobs: world’s best linkbaiter

Jason Bogovich — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:50:42 -0000

Steve Jobs sells DRM even on music that music companies don't require DRM on. This proves that Steve jobs is just trying to put himself in a position where he can tell himself that he had something to do with the end of DRM. It's a well known fact that the record companies are all discussing removing DRM. Steve probably knows more about this, and he's making a power play here just to make it seem like he had something to do with it.

I can see Steve Jobs sitting with Al Gore in a few years. Al says, you know Steve, I did some critical research, which is responsible for the internet, without which your great safari browser, would just be browsing the local hard drive!! I know Al, Steve says, but I did put an end to that nasty DRM! Yeah, you are great Steve, Al says. Steve says, I know Al, we both are great people!.

Re: Google’s local search impresses on “notary” search

Jason Bogovich — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:53:05 -0000

Bit off topic: Live Images is much nicer than Google Image search.

Especially if you have a great screen.

About local search, you are supposed to type subject location not location subject. Google is the only one who is reversing the query it seems like.

Another thing no one has noticed is if you type in a city in Google Maps, it gets stored as a cookie, which increases the relevancy of that city when you zoom out. The smaller city now appears even when you have a larger city right next to it that does not now appear. That's a spit finish shine--like the one Robert points out--that wins loyalty!

Google is doing a heck of a lot right, including building brand loyalty by going to bat for consumers consitantly and consistantly, but I'm tired of sensationalism and jaded spin on tech stories.

What happened to when we could sit back and be excited about technology and call 'em like we see them? I'm sure I could find a fluke in Google's tech that was better polished on the live.com side. (I did find one major glitch on Google Maps where spam was leaking into the results and my company had Google make some corrections to it's top results)

The fact is I use Google maps more than Live simply because it usually loads faster depending on where I am connecting in the US, but they (Live) have a much nicer technology in place, and Google has been playing catch up for quite some time in this area. Scoble, you're a wish washy dude sometimes man, I can see you wearing a Zune in two years. :)j.k. (about the Zune)

J

Re: What should I put on my Apple TV?

Jason Bogovich — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:17:48 -0000

I know a guy who used his Apple TV to make a Car-puter. The specs are perfect for it. I don't know if the thing is actually fit to watch TV on though. I need something that can dim the lights too. Have you ever heard of Life|Ware from exceptional innovation? I would suggest going over to Tvtonic.com and then looking through the feeds they have there Scoble. They have you on there and a decent amount to choose from. I would say engadget but I noticed you didn't mention them.

Re: Um, Dave, what Maryam really was hurt about

Jason Bogovich — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:59:36 -0000

The code of conduct is very useless Robert. Also, you said yourself you are a very public person and you will blog about everything that happens in the open. Not to take sides, this looks like it could get ugly, but did you and Maryame assume David was different?

Dave, imho, in the past has shown that his is a very analytical machine who can compute the worth of something very quickly. It's tough when you combine this engine with personal friendship because there is no clearly defined line. He's trying to compute his brains realization that this code of conduct is useless and this is overiding his friendship for anyone, you folks are calling him out on what's his charm has been all along.

Re: Um, Dave, what Maryam really was hurt about

Jason Bogovich — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:23:00 -0000

Robert, good luck to all of you guys. I thought you both lived by those rules. These situations are tough. I think you both give strenth to the trolls by acknowledging they exist. Thus a badget against a troll serves to attract one.

If I could be useful at all, I would just have everyone get back to their roots. But don't pay attention to these people, we live in a safe nation, be brave, a threat should be passed on to law enforcement but we need no badge. Robert, you among few really turned me on to blogging, and it was your sense of joy about technology that I felt. Perhaps it's the cold weather or something but I've not felt that excitement coming from you lately. I feel you say things you don't feel to be a part of something you are not, I don't know what it is, I haven't put my finger on it.

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft Maps get the hype?

Jason Bogovich — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:01:05 -0000

Actually, it has more to do with fandom. People don't call the shots as they see them. I've never heard Robert even so much as mention how much cooler images.live.com is than images.google.com. Never, not once. I could be wrong but I see through a lot of things and most people don't want to give Microsoft the credit they deserve when they actually do deserve it.

My 2C

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft Maps get the hype?

Jason Bogovich — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:33:01 -0000

Robert, Flikr does own a lot more cool content than Images.live.com. If you have said that you think live images is better than Google Images then I'm sorry and I have a lot more respect (not that you care) for you.

About Google maps, Microsoft is doing a lot innovating and I'm glad you pointed out the weak point, the interface. maybe those guys do need to come over and work but it's an entirely different type of interface.

Also, if you want hi quality images, please see the drop down on live's image search. you can search for only images that are the same size as your desktop (looking for wallpaper) I can find all types of images that are 2560x1600. I have about 5 gigs of great things I've found on Images.live.com I can search for any resolution of photo I want, 1920x1200 (True HD) is a popular format.

What I'd like to see is the indexes of all the majors and the interfaces become seperate services. If I like Microsoft's patented infinite scroll to search google index, I think all consumers would be happy if these different services were seperated. But then we get back to the photobucket-myspace trama.

Re: Microsoft WPF vs. Adobe Apollo, part 329

Jason Bogovich — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:40:03 -0000

As a flash user since Flash 3, I can vouch for the quality I'm finding in WP/E via Expressions Web Designer, aka Silverlight. I'm getting ready to launch a new home technology business and I'm building out the website with both technologies. I'm brushing up a bit with web usage--it's been a while since I've checked--but within a few months I think I'll introduce a product with WPF/E. It's an amazing way to demonstrate product and push your brand. It will be interesting to see the numbers in a year, and as I get more proficient at using the product I'll consider deploying it more broadly if I keep liking what I see.

What Flash has is an ARMY of developers and with the integration you've got coming from Adobe's other line of products, I think you have a company that Microsoft won't push around.

Re: Microsoft WPF vs. Adobe Apollo, part 329

Jason Bogovich — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:50:16 -0000

@ Chris: It's not so much that everyone should settle on a single format--competition in the formats themselves is good--it's that the DOJ and th rest of us make sure that each of these formats work well with one another, hopefully complement one another, and are only used when there are a high number of users who can read such rich content.

From the designer perspective, it's a testitmate to your merit and ability to see--without techmeme spin0--which technolgies YOU choose to deploy based on THEIR merit.

Re: Microsoft WPF vs. Adobe Apollo, part 329

Jason Bogovich — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:21:55 -0000

Mr. Robinson, that "immature" community is indeed perhaps 5 percent developers and they--if still around and not obsolte--are younger slashdot community. A few of the folks who read digg do matter. They certainly have the ability to influence even younger folks, who might be even brighter than they. You have to look at things 10 years from now always.

Re: Doubleclick turned down Microsoft money?

Jason Bogovich — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:40:36 -0000

Microsoft is going to be SOL in advertising unless they pull off some new innovative stuff that makes money. They need more thinkers and less project managers working for them.

Re: It’s a boy

Jason Bogovich — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:52:22 -0000

Congrats Robert and Maryamie!! Best of luck on rearing tomorrow's best camera man around!

Re: Microsoft about to enter into patent war?

Jason Bogovich — Sun, 13 May 2007 20:39:26 -0000

Wow, the cold war is over, Patent Armageddon has arrived. This could get ugly.

Re: Happy Mother’s Day…

Jason Bogovich — Sun, 13 May 2007 20:41:44 -0000

I feel for you all without mothers. I cherish all the time left I have with mine. Hang tough Robert.

Re: Steve Ballmer still doesn’t understand social networking

Jason Bogovich — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:21:54 -0000

Facebook represents a new paradigm in advertising, albeit a small one. This is the only reason Microsoft is even having this conversation. What they are afraid of is the advertising monster which shall be named Gphone.

GPS + Social Network Tie in + Keyword Search all wrapped up in a brushed aluminum package less than the size of a pack of Marlboro Lights is scaring the bejeezus out of Mr. Balmer.

Think about what pulled the internet out of the first slump. It was Google and this word auction crazy business. Now take that power, ease of use, care of customer, and then think about how much money gets spent in the car, compared to how much gets spent on your computer. In less you are 1 in 10,000 or more, the answer is much more money gets spent in the car.

When you enable advertising to the other 95 percent of all countries GNP, now we are talking paradigms. Now think about Office. What is your corporation going to do? Give Microsoft 5million dollars a year to use it's phones and office suite? Or take the free advertising supported one that works much better from Google? Google will get the complaints nailed out, Microsoft better hurry or it's going to be ugly.

Re: Steve Ballmer still doesn’t understand social networking

Jason Bogovich — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:26:20 -0000

One last thing we can be sure of, advertising, like taxes, are no fad. unfortunately...

Re: Why are some bloggers turning on Apple?

Jason Bogovich — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:36:39 -0000

Apple still has a lot of cool people working for them. My friend made an appointment with the wanna-be genius bar and they fixed up his iPhone earpieces problem even though he knew it was running T-mobile. He said in a condescending voice, you know, "We don't support these!" and then fixed the thing. :)

What's changing is the democratization of information and people realize that they can get Windows on their Macbook (even though you really need a pro to run Vista well IMHO) There are the 1 percent of people who are the innovators (like, you Dave and Even me to some extent and I Robert who influence the early adopters and those early adopters start influencing the rest.

Of the innovators and the early adopters, many don't feel comfortable using a machine that everyone else is using and so they will seek to differentiate themselves from the crowd. It's a physiological type subject that's beyond my understanding but it does happen ya know.

The next thing you know, we will live in an age where everything is modular and a commodity. Many of the smart people will roll their own OSes and subscribe to the services they trust and need.

The semantic age is upon us. Microsoft probably has a lot of crazy awesome stuff just waiting that they will bust out right when the tide turns. They are a calculating animal, they are still under heavy scrutiny by all sides for Monopoly stuff and once the Mac gets to the point where they are over 10 percent of the share, Microsoft can resort to playing the game of Bill Vs. Steve anyway they want.

For me, I don't sit and argue about what I think is better, I have a Mac Book Pro which runs all os'es. I run a geek data center in my home and I love to learn the pros and cons to each technology, and I try to apply that knowledge in a way that I know someday will help me turn my great new idea into something that will help everyone accomplish something better, and possibly earn a buck or two doing it. Dave Winer always has my respect for the whole sending out RSS to the masses. He doesn't horde it or charge an arm an a leg for its use, which is very important for somethign like RSS.

Okay, I am way off track, if you read this far, Happy Holiday/Merry Christmas to you Robert. A happy new year/end of year as well.

Re: Is Dataportability.org just PR?

Jason Bogovich — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:56:24 -0000

Coming from a person who was a big inspiration to me for many years this one really gets to me man, what happened to your inspiration? Seems like a jaded post.

What have you said millions of times Robert? EVERYTHING, starts with a conversation.

Conversations move things like quality user centric movements like Data Portability, and conversations stop wars.

Just because there is education going on, does not make it PR. Good causes need support to extend, if I had enough time I'd try to help more. PR? They are having conversations.

This is just me, but IMHO, a movement like Data Portability, who's entire reason for existence is to make the life of customer easier by having a damn conversation with all of these big companies is going to be hard to squash. It will take time. AOL was around a long time. Data Portability does have elements of PR; they are speaking to big companies and they cant speak lewt user tongue. THe movement is also a lot about education, a blueprint, and most importantly a GOOD conversation, one that's going to help us users. Perhaps you are trying to light a fire under everyone's seat, so maybe it's a good question to ask but I hope that's the reason you ask it.

Re: Ray Ozzie delivers with Live Mesh

Jason Bogovich — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:09:00 -0000

Robert, great reporting man, I love it when you get excited about technology, this framework looks really interesting, us on the east coast are just revving up to the news.

Thanks for the entertaining twittering last night too, I can usually tell how important thing are just by how excited you get. Sometimes I wonder if you ever wonder if Microsoft would be doing differently today had you stayed with them? One of Microsofts biggest mistakes was not paying you even half of what you should have been making.

Re: Microsoft sues TomTom over Linux and other patent claims

Jason Bogovich — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:01:00 -0000

I hope this sparks the open source patent war and that after the EU & the open source licensing commission get done with Microsoft they are reduced to pedaling fish aquariums in Malaysia.

Seriously, as far as I"m concerned Microsoft was a huge innovator in the late nineties but since then all they have done is hold innovation back. Vista, SQL Server, Windows Server, & everything else Microsoft makes or copies is a big me too second rate product. Here is another example of Microsoft showing the inability to compete so they are getting their lawyers involved. Steve is like a big bully 7th grader and I hope someone kicks his ass.

Re: Google Acquired DoubleClick To Create A People-Driven Advertising Platform

Jason Bogovich — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:26:06 -0000

Don't let Google Fool you. They would aquire any advertising agency with a bunch of clients. Make the pie bigger so to speak. Google wants to dominate advertising like Microsoft does the OS. Not many people understand this yet, but once Google does have a Monopoly on advertising on the Internet, they can then truly make the OS less important.

Re: How Apple Will Use The iPhone To Take Over The Wireless Industry

Jason Bogovich — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:05:00 -0000

I've played with an iPhone and it's pretty impressive, but to call it revolutionary is quite amusing. In many reguards the phone is a step backwards in usability, but it does have more redeeming qualities than bad ones. The worst part about the iPhone has nothing to do with Apple at all. As everyone points out, it's the network that sucks, but they don't point out all of the reasons, it's the network that AT&T says will be used to spy on customers for the benifit of teh RIAA, and will lead to an erosion of our privacy. People died died defending that privacy, it's not something we should easily forget and turn a head to, whether you think it revolutionary or not.

Re: Join The Web Content Conservation Movement

Jason Bogovich — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:06:25 -0000

The conversation started with: "Most bloggers are just trash" (possible a classic Dave Winer mis-understood message of Godzilla proportions).

I'm glad to see that the bitchmeme has evolved into something positive. Constructive criticism. We need to know when to post. Some people are doing it for money though so it doesn't apply to them; competition will take it's course there and they will have to add some value.

I have been doing less blogging (though more Twittering which doesn't apply as much as it's a communication vehicle not an information vehicle) and more research and self tech-education and program creation vs content creation lately. It's a good discussion but I won't blog about it. I don't have anything really to add to it, and others should follow suit. Quality posts are going to be my main objective moving forward, I don't really have time to blog all the time anymore.