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Mike has an important point there Robert, considering you are a person who has switched domains/homes online a few times - these services need to be portable and stuck to a home the user owns, otherwise the value you are building is for FriendFeed, not you

hey thanks john, hope we can come and see you guys soon and catchup again

oh and you are def head-deep and swimming in 2.0 now :)

Ye I believe it was one of the interns and yes it was an accident.

and as an aside, we had a record traffic month in May, and that is without even having user registrations enabled

Thats awesome work Duncan. Just ignore that anybody can edit the page and mark a company deadpooled. Hey, I just marked Google dead, you gonna write about that too?

You should frame the JS includes in an IFRAME so that if they dont load, they at least dont take down the host website

Jeremiah: 60 companies tells me that it is a big market with even bigger potential

you should be worried (or curious) when $44M gets invested into a space that nobody cares about

Caching will not save you on the first request, only subsequent requests. Browsers and HTTP have long supported local caching even for flash objects, if implemented correctly you should never have to re-download an applet if it hasn't changed (but with only the slightest changes you do)

the iPhone might not need AIR, but it sure does need flash. The reason why it isn't there now is because the first iPhone flash app would be music streaming, which is something that Apple probably don't want

Robert: I am aware of those, but this agreement seems to be a bit more aggressive and broader than most. Specifically since Adobe can tell you *after* you find something out that it is confidential (eg. in that scenario you had where you stumble into a room and find something out - you don't know it is confidential until afterwards). This means that it can also apply to the situation I described in my last comment

The question really is, would Adobe sue a blogger who has signed this NDA (eg. they have entered the Adobe building at some point) and has revealed information that Adobe consider sensitive. the answer is probably that they wouldn't (especially you Robert ;)) and which is why I might have been a bit quick to jump to my guns in the last comment

I guess they would sue if it was a super-big-deal though, something that hurts the company financially or reputation-wise in a big way.

Regardless, I would like to think that they could waive the NDA admission requirement for iPhoneDevCamp since this is a non-Adobe event, is on a weekend and they could just partition out an area open to all

I never thought I would see the day where the host of a Barcamp (well, Barcamp-related event) would require all those attending to sign an NDA.

I was about to sign up since we have done a lot of iPhone dev in the past week, and also to cover for Techcrunch. There is a good reason why the NDA is a deal-breaker for me, and that is because it is too vague and encompasses any information that Adobe does or could consider sensitive.

There are probably things that I know about Adobe right now that nobody outside of the company is supposed to know - if I sign this NDA, then in a few months time just happen to mention any one of those things in a blog post, they would be able to pin me, even if I knew the information before this event and I didn't pick the information up at the event.

I don't see how you could sign it either Robert, as I am sure that somewhere in your head there are a few tips on Adobe you have received that aren't supposed to be public information.

Surprisingly I have yet to see a single blogger fuss about the NDA requirement

our whole web world watched along scoble. this was web 2.0's moon landing :)

Ok so finally Flash developers get to do what Win32 platform developers have had for decades. great.

Show me the runtime! hehe

At Omnidrive, we moved to the Seagate 750 drives shortly after they were released (after thrashing them with testing) - we eagerly await the release of the 1TB drives!

You can't think what you can do with just one, well, I say that within a few months of release we will buy *hundreds* of the 1TB model

They left out therapists, lawyers and drug dealers :)

You can see the difference between 1080i and 1080p when you are watching a fast-moving film or playing video games, since p is basically double the refresh-rate of i

Hi Guys, I am the founder and CEO of Omnidrive. Omnidrive does a lot more than just store your files, it allows you to aggregate all your files from your web apps (eg. flickr, zoho etc.), instantly share any file, publish files in one-click (see our 'Tip of the Day' from today on our blog.

Omnidrive isn't just another place to put some files, it sits in between all the different places you have files, both desktop and web, and brings them all together. We have a lot more coming, as well!

Robert, the 14c you are paying for bandwidth is very very cheap, considering what you are getting (a content delivery network that is very very fast). If your traffic isn't big enough at the moment where you can justify using a CDN, then just fall back on regular colo and pay anywhere between $1k to $2k per month per 100mbit. It works out to be around 3.5c per GB xfer.

You can buy that bandwidth in 10mbit chunks and scale it up to what you need (you will need crack-hot server guys though to keep everything running).

Once you have your model working then you can migrate up to a CDN - CacheFly is 10-20 times cheaper than the other players in that market (Limelight, Akamai, etc.)

Another tip would be to sell your sponsorships as just that - a sponsorship, not on a CPM basis. This is what most startup blogs/vlogs do and it means they achieve an effective CPM that is very high but don't need to sell it that way.

Your other option is to host ScobleShow on Omnidrive - we are launching at web 2.0 and would be happy to host the video's for you (at much less than what you are paying now)

Ye ok, a bit offside - sorry PD :)

PD: don't you have anything better to do? Your name comes up whenever techcrunch does, do you refresh technorati results all day?

The solution is to just let us use our phones, you can at least get coverage some of the time (spending the take-off, landing taxying time online would be enough for me). Seems too logical (there is no real threat to in-flight systems, if a phone can take down a plane then they wouldn't be letting us board with them, considering now that even water is banned)

Hey James, been busy with the things the article talks about! We are coming up to launch so things are just getting crazier. See you at the TC if not before, Nik

Hi Pete, your comments on positioning are very true. There are good reasons why sites such as PhotoBucket don't try and do everything at once, its so that the value prop to the user is simple and easy to convey. I am sure that FileMobile will eventually work out who their customers are and who they want and will tune the message and features around that. 'blog this' is pretty cool but bloggers already have far too many options when it comes to media and I think we are all a bit *yawn* about it.

"For instance, today at Makers Faire there was a guy who had been blowing bubbles for 30 years."

Was it Michael Jackson?

Oh and I wonder if Jim Allchin will now need to stay on a bit longer

Robert it's not the first 'slip up', they started the project again at a time when it was due out - so this slip up is the 4th that I can recall. Worst of all it's an indication to the public of what is happening within Microsoft. Big big big mess.