DISQUS

I don't know you. I don't hate you. You are a smart guy that has flaws. We all do. The main issue I have is that I do not believe you are as important as you think you are. You claim to have "pioneered" all sorts of things when in reality you *helped* pioneer or simply evangelized ideas that had existed long before you started talking about them. Just because you were one of the first to blog about something does not mean that individuals leveraging similar ideas should be indebted to you. If you personalize a sense of entitlement that is not deserved and treat criticism as personal attacks then don't be surprised when people get frustrated with you.

My advice, for what it's worth ... You need to get over this notion that someone disagreeing with you is standing in your way. If you feel that you have some new idea to contribute then you should clearly demonstrate how it is a new idea and not just declare it so and take ownership of it. When you feel that people with the power to change the status quo are not listening to you it's not productive to get bitter and lash out at them.

> Sprint? Palm has them in the Palm of their hands now.

Sprint is a member of the Open Handset Alliance (Android consortium) ... as is China Mobile, the largest carrier on the planet.

I added some feeds generated from FriendFeed's search results to a couple of rooms but the FF landlords disabled the ability to do this back in September. I decided to work around this limitation by routing the FriendFeed search results feeds through my Google Reader account and adding that shared feed back into a room. It is just an experiment to amuse myself right now but I want to eventually enhance the room via the FF APIs when I find the time.

The room's feed consist of the videos (youtube & vimeo) added to FriendFeed by the people I am subscribed to on FF along with the videos added by their friends. I am subscribing to all the people that subscribe to this room so if anyone wants their videos (and those of their friends) to show up there, simply add yourself to the room ...

http://friendfeed.com/rooms/theater

I was pleasantly surprised by the entertainment value of the room's clips. If enough people join the room and start "liking" items in the room it should get even more interesting.

Twitter and Google Search are different applications that serve different needs. Also, a follower in Twitter does not mean the same thing as a link to a web page.

The result of adding such an optional feature *would* be censorship. You don't see this because your perception is being influenced by what you want Twitter to be, a marketing tool to promote yourself and your businesses. A lot of people would not like to see Twitter go down this path. You should really be more specific when you qualify your posts with "we need".

I think it would be a mistake if Twitter started censoring unpopular voices.

I don't at all believe there is the same incentive to submit retractions or that people will forgive and forget. The Mumbai tragedy demonstrated this. False rumors persisted for days. The lack of accountability is also a problem. I suspect the CNN iReporter episode where Steve Jobs was reported to be gravely ill which in turn depressed Apple's stock price will be commonplace if many people start seeing social media as a reliable news source. It's very difficult to prove if that individual was trying to manipulate the market but the FTC was very interested in pursuing legal action against him. In your vision for the future of news reporting there is just too much opportunity for maliciousness. I am convinced that this and the spam issue will turn people off to social media as a news source before a tipping point is reached.

You will also have more scandals incorrectly reported by social media addicts craving for attention. Lives will be ruined just because someone that is looking to add more internet followers/friends wants to be first to report something to Twitter's echo chamber. There will also be tons of spam masquerading as news reports.

I know the definition of amateur. There still needs to be someone to pay for the paper, the printers, the electricity, etc. I suspect that consumers will decide that this product is not worth the paper it is printed on.

If consumers are not going to pay professionals for their news on paper then they are not going to pay amateurs for same.

Keep in mind that the needs of higher ed are different from the needs of K-12. In higher ed I would think that the publishing business model could be extended to lectures with professors working with editors from publishing houses. Replacing lectures with multimedia productions validated to be the most instructive material available would provide more time for office hours and lab work. In K-12 it is all about tools. I would like to see industry leaders sponsor and provide input on curricula and tools. Others might object to pre-roll ads inserted into educational video podcasts. As long as the sponsors are not evil I think ads could work at all education levels to identify the most effective types of courseware and the teachers that are best suited to present the material.

What are the new kinds of Internet-connected apps that Mesh will enable?

I still say America! Fuck Yeah! and am voting for Obama. I believe the US has a lot of strengths that are not going away. There is also a lot of room for improvement too but I don't think Obama is going to be able to make much headway in reforming a government that is fueled by special interests and directed by lobbyists. The new boss is going to be pretty much the same as the old boss. I don't share your concerns regarding America's image, worry about its critics, or think that any other society should abandon its culture and adopt ours. I have a lot of Australian friends that I respect but I don't think Obama’s story could have been possible in Australia today. Racism is still too prevalent there.

Too bad the Soviet Union collapsed. If your economic theory is correct, their stores would be thriving today.

You're off my leader board too. You are all over the place and I need efficiency. There is way too much noise to wade through to find any value within what you have been dishing out lately. You say that your audience is early adopters. I think you need to focus on early adopters within some specific slice(s) of the tech industry and go deep into the issues important to the people that live in those markets so that you can build an audience/community which is not so fragmented. Also, pimping whatever Winer is doing does not help your credibility.

If I expose my personal information to someone they have no right to publish *any* of that information anywhere else without my explicit permission.

@Dan: Apple has also stated that ...

"An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise."

This enables Jobs & co. to block all sorts of competition and potential innovation like third party browsers, Flash, Java, Silverlight, and any app that supports plug-ins. I'd be very surprised to see any third party app available in the iTunes App Store that competes with functionality present in the iTunes application.

As it stands Mozilla is not planning to bring Firefox to the iPhone ...

http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9903705-2.html

Imagine if Bill Gates did not allow Firefox to run on Windows. That is the control Steve Jobs has with the iTunes App Store's terms of service. The community behind Android will have no trouble out innovating Apple's crippled platform.

What problem is the Mesh trying to solve? Mary Jo mentions something about it being good for sharing photos. It looks to me to be a re-packaging of .Net. Microsoft keeps wanting to redefine the web using kind of similar terms. They are running out of options.

If Facebook users do not "have complete ownership of their social graph" then Facebook will not be able to "out open everyone" and a competitor will surely come along and clearly demonstrate why the Facebook silo is a wannabe evil empire.

I see a future of federated social micro-networks where quality wins out over quantity. I sense that most people want to have control over their social networks but Facebook appears to believe that we want to have our lives managed by Facebook. Their arrogance is disturbing.

If the recordings of the conference calls were to be made public then they would be made to be public. You are giving way too much credit to politicians if you think that these calls wouldn't inevitably be self-censored and manipulated by campaign handlers.

I would have liked a follow up question regarding what Zuckerberg thinks he can do that a CEO over the age of 23 could not.

This still is not good enough. Any opt-in functionality should be on the external websites. MoveOn.org should now go after Facebook's partners and make sure that they stop distributing their customers' personal information to third parties like Facebook without the explicit consent of customers.

This seems like just another scheme/platform for Robert, Dave, and Steve to promote Robert, Dave, and Steve. Yawn.

I had a similar issue when upgrading my 17" MacBook Pro to OS X 10.4.11. However, the solution appeared to be to plug in an ethernet cable after the install and before the reboot. When I tried to startup in safe mode with only wifi access to the net I repeatedly had no luck getting the desktop to show up.