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.

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.

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

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.

Why does it need to be a verb? It should be completely freeform.

I was about to chastise you Dave as it was in Preferences on iPhoto for me, but as others have alluded to Apple 'fixed' this in iPhoto 08. Anybody with previous versions of iPhoto would have to go the rather insane Image Capture route.

Its OK Leo, you can rejoin the club now. We forgive you.

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Hit the nail on the head.

very interesting thoughts

The News feed is the killer aspect of Facebook. It brings the internet and my friends to me. Extremely powerful tool. Personalised, relevant RSS for the masses.

Maybe its just me, but I cant stand the fact that you must add 5 people. Its spam, plain and simple.