DISQUS

I think if Apple really wants to disrupt in this camera space, a stable video application would be folded onto the next generation iPhone. Do it right, and Apple could siginificantly disrupt all sorts of streaming software services currently running on Series 60 devices.

On a related front, what's the story with your twitter account?

I am waiting for the upgrade that lets me mark myself as a point of interest, then let the POI become a contact in my address book that can be texted to someone's GPS unit and appear as a valid navigation destination.

I like Friendfeed because it helps me thread Twitter, just like Jaiku natively threaded posts.

I browse with a Nokia E90 so I need a 3GP video option.

Mechanical Turks do transcripts well.

Living in Ireland where I can upload around an hour of video every month (and download around 4 hours monthly) for around $50 monthly, I think it's a matter of high-speed network availability. I can get up to seven megabits per second in most Irish cities but I doubt that's the rate most American carries offer. On top of that, I'd never buy a handset that didn't offer a wifi option. I'm not sure it's easier to get a wifi handset as a network upgrade on many network plans offered Stateside. You need speed and high spec handsets to bring video into the purses of people on the street.

Then there's the systemic problem many of us have where Twitter inexplicably unfollows people we have followed. Add that system issue alongside my preference to occasionally unfollow when I'm not within 3 time zones and you have the potential for people to read way too much into following and being followed.

Twitter will never be the only backbone of vibrant social networking so it's hardly worth thinking about the psychological impact of Qwitter.

If you want to achieve global reach, you need to ensure "agent" sounds trustworthy to German, French and Japanese audiences.

I understand "Trust Agent" and award it positive vibes when associated with "Chris Brogan" but I've been hard done by other agents (commercial and Stasi) so I have to peel back the onion to award the meaning. However, that's just me--unless you discover others speaking English as their second language have the same hesitation.

I like "Trust Developer" better since it connotes positive vibes, etymologically speaking.

Until mainstream PR and Journalism schools teach the art and technology of engaging social conversations, your main points will continue to ring true for most of the world. We're still training new entrants whose highest goal involves arriving with their company, product or service on the first page of a Google search. Many of their textbooks and college lecturers don't explain the dynamics of social networking.

Looks like a bad link pointing to the 3GP file for MIR 17.

I've got more than 6000 tweets to my name and I've shed more than 200 followers through various maintenance routines used by Twitter HQ. Those kinds of things are part of growing up in a web 2.0 world. In that world, I've always seen Twitter as a "social comms play" not a "communications utility" because when you have a utility, you have pipes that work all the time. And if there's a clogged drain, there's a team fixing the problem and sometimes digging up a place to lay another pipe.

Twitter appeals most to people who have never sat next to a green screen on USENET. Twitter provides the greatest invigorating punch to people who have never joined a discussion board. If you haven't bonded to a group powered by a LISTSERV, then Twitter must seem to be the bee's knees. In all those other places, reliability and accountability have been paramount. I don't feel the same community concern on the part of Twitter's developers or funding partners.

I'm with genieyclo and could not imagine the world before Qik. I run it as my storylining technology, capturing video and audio moments that my creative multimedia students later consult when crafting two minute video clips of their own. Qik upstreams from my Nokia phone, in private or public streams, interactive when they're being made.

The way I see it, Twitter planted its flag on top of a mountain of people who like to use their desktop browsers as a water cooler. And some of those people also like to buy accessories like teal-coloured tee shirts with flying whales. Twitter wins big in these two camps, having built a lazyweb ecosystem on the basis of simplicity, not scalability.

But I interact with the web most of the time while mobile. It's relatively easy where I live in Ireland because I'm hit by 3G signals coming from at least three different directions on the course of my daily 80 mile travels. In that kind of working environment, I get what I need from Jaiku but more importantly, I don't have to rely on Twitter for companionship, research, social networking, or brand-building. For those who need these kinds of by-products, I hope you can get an opportunity to see how a Jaiku clone runs on the Google App Engine. The alpha I've seen offers a kind of telepresence and location-awareness that extends my productivity.

I cannot say that I've become more productive with Twitter, although I'm less bored when I swim with its socialable whales.

Like many other things, FriendFeed is a wide-open spigot that needs some careful consideration. I think if it's well-managed it can be a valuable early warning radar for journalists.

Thanks for spotlighting the look of audio in FriendFeed rooms.

Being able to scrub forward is important with any audio content.

Being able to bookmark a specific time-coded part of the audio would be very special.

We often run workshops on a Friday for conferences starting on Saturdays so people can get a day away from work and then decide whether to burn up part of their weekend with the conference sessions. We also monetise conferences by charging profitable rates for the workshops.

And I'm yet another person who has not read all of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Mythologiques.

I wonder if the Twitter staff have commissioned an externally-evaluated code audit on both the core processes and the API calls because from the outside looking in, I doubt that any amount of new hardware will boost Twitter reliability.

It's really difficult forcing Twitter into a hole cut by Jaiku. The two services have many different wrinkles. For starters, Jaiku actually works in your pocket if you run it on a Series 60 third edition Nokia phone. Twitter doesn't even have a back button that works but it has plenty of cross-talk so it seems alive and even helpful in a lazyweb way.

I can cut time between telephone tag sessions when my workgroup all uses Jaiku's client because their phones tell me where they are and whether they're available. That functionality was never designed into FriendFeed or Twitter and perhaps never should be.

Jaiku had a team of network engineers bought out by Google. You might see their handiwork in Android but from the feel of Jaiku at the moment, only the hardcore complement still hang out and chat in Jaikustan. For many looking in from the outside, it must look like a tumbleweed town. But that kind of signal-to-noise works best for me.

Fair play to the Twitter posse for bailing an American but from my Flashmob and street protest experience, it's more a story of how effective group texting helped in a crunch. When I got detained in Egypt, I lost my watch, my phone, and my camera. I don't know Buck's specifics but it sounds like he had his phone after being arrested. That's interesting because it's highly unusual to get put into the general prison population in the Middle East where you keep electronic gear on your person.

If videos are as easy to upload to Flickr as images are through add-ons like Zonetag, I will use the service more than I use YouTube. And I wouldn't mind paying for privileges like I do with two Flickr Pro accounts currently.

Google seems to be serving up sitelinks when Googlebot can find and follow a sitemap. The sitelinks are pretty standard--I think they're useful. In my experience, if Googlebot's automated process discovers a sitemap with sitelinks that point to one another, you have a good prospect of getting the link list displayed on a search for your site.

I just wonder how in the world you'll manage the flow in FriendFeed because you've shoveled a boatload of contacts into your feed mix from the first go.

Twitter needs a major architectural overhaul before it scales to the next level. Otherwise, it lacks real enterprise strength and you need an enterprise toolset if you expect to survive the next wave of really simple groupgab.

One's social network most certainly deserves to remain of their own culling. In my case, I've got more real favours due me through people in my immediate LinkedIn network than I could ever expect among the several hundred Facebook friends I've collected. In my mind, a friend isn't worth the title unless he or she can offer at least a couch for a late night, short-notice stay. Everyone has their own well-thumbed Filofax (Daytimer, address book, name your flavour) entries. In my case, the most-cherished one aren't on Facebook. But it's horses for courses and there are certainly people who have just as valuable a set of linkages on Facebook.

I'm glad you ported your Facebook v. LinkedIn comparative advantage argument here and I've Linked Into it. In fact, I think this blog post will be on the LinkedIn blogging mailing list next week.

It's all horses for courses, this FB vs LI debate. In my case, the guys I knew in the 80s only see Facebook over the shoulders of their college kids. They're the ones with the numeric e-mail addresses I cite, including several general officers in the military, an assistant secretary of a major US government department and three Executive Office staffers. Those are the ones in the "silent LinkedIn generation" I inferred and on further investigation, several of them did not know their names (nothing else) were on LinkedIn. I sent them a short note and we're back in touch.

It will be good to see Facebook evolve into this kind of community too. But for the moment, I cannot handle the Facebook noise nor do I have the energy to meaningfully engage in Facebook groups when I'm tapped out in real world committee work. So I'm planning on using the Scoble Scraping Script to enjoy the fastest ejection from Facebook available.