DISQUS

A smartphone to me is basically a pocket computer, as you alluded to in an earlier post. The problem is where do we draw the line? My mums cheap and cheerful Samsung phone allows you to run java apps and games and plays MP3s. Is it a smartphone?

Its free on £45. £99 on the £35 contract.

Entirely reasonable.

Plus you get unlimited internet usage in that, so perhaps you will finally get a decent mobile web experience.

But good luck. I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

Yep, and its super fast (in Manchester at least).

It is indeed an astounding accomplishment and a real breakthrough for mobiles.

It might be the best option. From what Steve Gillmor was saying yesterday, Twitter can't be fixed as it stands.

If I was Ev i'd be looking to sell immediately and cash in.

If there was an easy way to move my contacts over, i'm gone. I don't have a Windows machine so that app for it is no use to me.

If FriendFeed was smart they would build a contact importer of their own, that crawled your Twitter contacts to see if they were already on FF. And if they weren't, it would set up Imaginery Friends with the appropriate Twitter account added as a feed so that you would still get all of your contacts Tweets in FF.

Then once you are on FF, you find that comments start to ween you off the need to Tweet.

Come to FriendFeed Rui :)

I came here via a FriendFeed link.

Sign of the times methinks.

@Earle

You can't really compare the situation two years ago with what is happening now with the site. Since being bought by Google, Jaiku is effectively dead - so it is no wonder why you are having problems.

I am looking at other Nielsen country data for Facebook and the trend is still upwards.

UK for instance went from 9.8m > 10.2m

I think that all we can conclude is that the huge growth has slowed down and these small changes month on month will become the norm, as everybody who wants a Facebook account has one.

Pretty much the entire feature set of FriendFeed was available in Jaiku two years ago, plus more.

Yet you dismissed it, saying that you prefer the simplicity of Twitter over a feed aggregator.

What changed?

finally somebody who understands that "I want my data" is a comment that has left me tearing my hair out whilst listening to the Gillmor Gang.

Hmm .I think you rushed this post Robert. I have been playing with it for a few hours now and its pretty amazing. Particularly for those of us who maintain a folder/tag structure. The way you can expand on the fly without reloading the page is superb.

And when you expand an item there is a Share button right there. Seeing as you need to actually click on an article to read it, I don't see the problem you are stating with Share.

Erm, aren't MVP's Microsoft enthusiasts by nature? Why would he be surprised that they don't use Yahoo?

Its now on the right side panel.

Time for me to make a monthly subscription to TWiT methinks.

I am out in the UK and have never seen the show, so only know you from the TWiT network.

But good luck. You have a huge opportunity with Live

Man. You sure got my hopes up.

It said that you can browse and listen/watch podcasts solely via the Apple TV. Thats a big thing for me.

Beyond awesome man. Thank you.

Finally, an opinion that matches my own. The current whinge mentality of the blogosphere is kinda starting to piss me off.

Lets refresh our memories of what shared items are, in Googles own words, inside Reader when you click on it.

"Your shared items are publicly accessible.
They are available as a page at http://www.google.com/reader/shared/xxxxxx (and there's a feed too) "

Are people seriously going to argue that Shared items are anything but? Its crystal clear. Black and white.

If people want a private bookmarking service, use the Star or create a tag of your own. Click Settings > Tags and you will see that you can make any arbitrary tag public or private.

@miketheatuary

you already can create ad hoc feeds. Click Settings > Tags. Every tag you create can be made public or kept private.

When reading a feed you want to tag say "close friends", type gt, and then choose the tag you want. Very quick. Very simple. Very flexible.

I say its #1. On the settings > tags page, Shared Items clearly states that they are shared and that there is a public page for them.

If people wanted a private bookmarking service, they should use the Starred items.

The settings do not need to be any more granular.

Love the comments stuff.

I wouldn't say its damaging. Its just corny.