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Re: Is "Social Enterprise Software" An Oxymoron?

Fred Grott — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:30:45 -0000

That is why the friends control features on sits like facebook are getting play..and the complimentary trend along with that is the increase companies coming out with enterprise facebook apps that share sap data and etc via the facebook platform..

I am not saying that there are not obstacles had that other people have already pointed out. I think part of it may be using video media such as seesmic and others to build a transparent conversation with enterprise users and customers so that that transparency translates into enterprise customers feelign that their concerns about security and etc are in fact held in high esteem and concern.

Re: Do You Ever Want To Temporarily Unfollow On Twitter?

Fred Grott — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:16:22 -0000

Let me guess is it the same person mentioned as commenting on twittersnooze's disadvantages? :)

Re: Comments Can Be Blog Posts

Fred Grott — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:33:25 -0000

Fred,(always did like that as a first name:)) it sounds like you have a VC/Angel funding/Seed capital idea. if services Disqus, Seesmic, and etc are Web 2.0 enabled via api it could be done as a CMs/blog mashup platform.. Use say something like Ruby on Rails combined with datastore APIs instead of database servers and you could have it up and running in 4 months.

Re: 100 Mowserized Sites! - RussellBeattie.com

Fred Grott — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:17:30 -0000

Sorry Russ have been busy with 18 hour days at start up will mowser my weblog soon..

Re: Obscure mobile company Mig33 grows quickly, raises $10M

Fred Grott — Mon, 07 May 2007 08:41:53 -0000

Matt, your comparison to US is flawed..

The highest CDMA amount of users is in US on percentage basis of US whole..

Compared to Sia wheras its GSM dominant..

CDMA operators are walled gardens not GSM Operators!

get your facts straight before mouthing off PLEASE!

And SMS invitation to install does not get around operator requirements you nitt witt!

Re: ShareMe -The Mobile Future : Weblog

Fred Grott — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:14:24 -0000

Jacky its very nicely balanced between those who will use the User Interface and those who will embed the search url post/get in their IDEs via other web interfaces.

Re: Robert Scoble’s $45 Billion Website

Fred Grott — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:33:58 -0000

he also has another one..someone offered a bet on one of Scoble's fb assumptions.. if Scoble looses he ha sot lip synch and Video tape it..

Scoble seems to be ducking and hiding form that bet..I wonder why?

Re: 2008/05/08/add-ons-firefox-3-beta/

Fred Grott — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:57:15 -0000

You forgot the Mahalo.com plugins SIR!

Re: 2008/06/10/retagg/

Fred Grott — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:56:51 -0000

I think I will start using this very useful..

Re: Alfred is right: I’m irrelevant to Web 2.0

Fred Grott — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:54:00 -0000

Would not MS need outsiders at every dev conference if the new OS is actually the web?

Re: Google hiring funniness

Fred Grott — Wed, 23 May 2007 18:08:26 -0000

“I don’t know anyone who isn’t fully employed right now”

Another option is an attempt to find Angel investors in your geo location as someone us cannot move due to aspects of taking care of aging parents and etc.

Re: DOG (Distrust/Disdain of Google) moves in

Fred Grott — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:45:38 -0000

Robert I do think its a reaction to Google except for the studpi pr stuff..

I think its a natural reaction and concern about web 2.0 and upcoming web 3 technology as far as what are our privacy rights and how do we control them and give them away when we want to..

Re: Zooomr’s longest week

Fred Grott — Tue, 29 May 2007 07:54:08 -0000

Robert why is he not using Amazon Web Services server infrastructure?

Is certainly less expensive than buying your own servers and solves the infrastructure problems with the ability to have a mirror of a server set up to practice new features on and etc.

Re: danah continues the “precious,” er, Facebook conversation…

Fred Grott — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:35:03 -0000

Robert, your solution to email onfb is..

Look at my profile there is an application in there that allows me to point my profile viewers to an app to email me via my email address rather than message me via FB messaging..

Re: Reports of PodTech’s demise are bull####

Fred Grott — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:27:28 -0000

Robert,

I am having a problem similar to yours in that a mobile java hiring manager at yahoo INC is blocking YahoGo being rewritten as a Mobile 2.0 runtime to allow User created Mobile Widgets in css, html, javascript, and ajax as the way to put new widgets in YahooGO and routing around running out of midlet szie space and heap memory space with a thin client whereas ui and app logic is on server side thus decreasing space and memory taken by app.

With Yahoo INC hiring managers repeating such false myths as you can replace collections classes in j2me with array classes to reduce GC operations is it any wonder why Yahoo INC innovations are failing..

Given my Yahoo INC recruiting miss=-adventure the only advice I can give you Robert for going through the Bullsh** is to hope and pray that the wear neck ties...

HOW DO)ES ONE KILL A FREAKING PURPLE DINOSAUR??!!

If you have Jerry Yangs phone# and email maybe you should send a clue to him to get his engineering staff on mobile in order as the correct architecture choice for YahooGo given past Yahoo successes in thin clients is to have it as a thin client mobile 2.0 runtime with suer created widgets!

Robert, sorry for screaming again..

How to Kill a purple dinosaur to save Yahoo INC??

Beauty of the YahooGO rewritten as Mobile 2.0 called MobileY! is that it replaces ad revenue lost through search engine market losses..:)

You would think that would be enough given 4 billion mobile users to get Jerry Yang's attention

Re: What will Yahoo and Microsoft do? Is Zuckerberg scared?

Fred Grott — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:17:58 -0000

I can say or state what Yahoo might do and not do because I in fact offered a social platform product idea to Yahoo and they have yet to move their collective asses on getting moving..

Imagine a mobile version of Pipes in that a mobile user can create a Widget that exists on a website but the mobile user can access. Now imagine being able to with that Widget to integrate with device functions such as the camera...Now imagine being able to create that Wdiget with just html, css, and javascript :)

Actually its a re-application of concepts in the Yahoo Go version 1.x design except done in a correct manner this time instead of goofed up. Given the large difference in perfromance of Yahoo Go(1.x good, 2.x dismal), you would think Yahoo INC might wise up a little.

Yahoo INC secreter sauce inthe Yahoo Go rewrite woud be in as far as a mobile ajax runtiem to insert mobiel ads based on the mobile user experience and those ads and revenue would be independent of the search engine performance.

I can say given the polical blocking that the Connected Life Division of Yaho Inc does concerning any solution that uses tools, libraries and etc form foss and open source that Yahoo INC will do exactly nothing unfortunately..

Fred Grott
Mobile Expert
http://www.jrolelr.com/sharme

Re: Google Android: we want developers but…

Fred Grott — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:48:19 -0000

I guess I should clue some in that Google does have sort of a competitor fast approaching..

Just imagine a Mobile ajax runtime that allows the Mobile User to create Mobile widgets using html,css, and javascfipt its called MobileY! and currently is development in far away lab

ipHone succeed because it went after Mobile Users..

Another term for MobileY! is a Social Mobile Browser for every mobile user..

I am taking a huge risk here in getting into trouble with my top bosses..

Lets just say I am kicking Purple Dinosaurs through the SF49ers Uprights..

Videos for Mobile Users Coming soon :)

Re: BugLabs.net’s really cool reconfigurable gadget in depth

Fred Grott — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:36:49 -0000

Thanks Scoble. From one of the experts in J2me both MIDP CCLDC and CDC it is nice that the transition form J2ME MIDP to J2ME CDC is getting an engaging and understandable presentation.

despite some people getting it wrong it is in fact J2me, the future side ie CDC not MIDP. It is projets like BugsLab that will encourage exploration of the power of that transition from J2me MIDP to J2me CDC and take the fear out of such a transition.

Fred Grott
Mobile Expert
http://www.jroller.com

Re: Erased

Fred Grott — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 08:40:25 -0000

You are nto goign to like this Robert:

1. 3rd party FB app s have been used to backup FB data..in fact I sue one that does not violate FB TOS.

2. You choose to violate FB TOS..knowing fully the consequences

3. FB has a duty to protect everyone's data not just yours..

Its getting freaking old SIR!

Re: Facebook and Google join DataPortability.org

Fred Grott — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:51:15 -0000

Robert Scoble,

What if funding was suddenly dropped in one of your friends hands to do the Open Data Social Platform idea?

Ah you got EMAIL!

I cannot state here which funding firm and etc...

Re: Back home from MySpace

Fred Grott — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:10:46 -0000

Robert, what is this sleep you speak of??? Just kidding..get some sleep

Re: How do you add value to a rubber band?

Fred Grott — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:41:34 -0000

interesting..

My ideas..

1. Suspension bridge cable

This space is too small to go over the physics of why it would work just as good as the normal materials of poly fibers and steel and nylon..

Re: Microsoft=Success; Google Docs=Fail?

Fred Grott — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:30:46 -0000

Lets take the points part Robert:

1. The point about MS virus safety being better than Google's?? Surely that MS employee must be joking, right?

2. have you tried to save a MS Word processing Document in a needed format lately? Doesn't it fail sometimes??

How about a little honesty in the debate??

Re: “Innovation guru” John Kao on my cell phone

Fred Grott — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:56:53 -0000

Scoble, Scoble, dear Scoble,

What one could learn from Paul Graham spending just less than 250,000 to $500,000..

You do not plan innovation..you SEED it and give it some water to GROW!

It grows o fits own accord to whatever vision its following its not PLANNED!

Scoble, we are doing a video on innovation..maybe you should pan a trip to Chicago??

Its Web 3.0-ish..

Re: The TechMeme killer or the Google Reader killer?

Fred Grott — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:51:13 -0000

On FriendFeed..

Re: Facebook continues to suck

Fred Grott — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:41:25 -0000

Some people seem to be jumping before reading something in its full form..

Somehow Facebook has to manage their resources so that everyone gets to use it not just power users.

It was not just that the person was sending messages promoting a site but that then umber of messages was quite high beyond a normal user..

Scoble, compare them to Comcast which has better PR response..I think we know who wins facebook as comcast would never ever reverse their decisions would they?

And if you read the follow up you see the person in question has found a better way to said actions and follow facebook tos by using groups..

So next before we jump off the cliff, lets read a little before we make that conclusion jump..

Re: Mike Arrington is Right, Facebook is Wrong

Fred Grott — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:31:02 -0000

Robert,

I want you to think back to a post you did after a meeting with facebook on Data Portability issues. In that post you stated that facebook explained to you that the issues are hard to solve.

Which means that yes Facebook will make mistakes and so will Google and etc.

But, which mistake has greater damage:

1. Facebook failing to block someone and thus someone loosing their data/identity to fraud or etc

or

2. Facebook making a mistake in blocking someone or company and than correcting the mistake later.

Sorry Robert, I like you but I trust facebook's expertise in this before yours as it seems that even when they goof its a lessor of two evils.

Re: The sixth question companies ask about social media

Fred Grott — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:48:23 -0000

Its that 'sales conversation' in context of the conversation that affects sales..

For example ads on facebook do not work because they never enter the context of the conversation.. however..pay for services sales at LinkediN work because the sale is context of the ocurring conversation..

Re: Companies: has TechCrunch 50 or Demo spurned you?

Fred Grott — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:36:45 -0000

Not spurned yet unless you count that time Michael Arrignton miss pronounced my last name, something about a rumor about mS buying Mahalo.com..

Start up launch between now and 6 months..:)

Re: How to be a stealth site

Fred Grott — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:51:20 -0000

Congrats Scoble, you finally F'ing woke up somewhat..

Satire is a form of information and that is why even the lamest attempts at it do not get people banned for me following in some form to get information.

Atire also has its use in presenting start ups to the public. As Satire is usually the highest response getter if you make every effort to master the satire delivery. I f you look at how Loic uses satire in his presentation of Seesmic to the public you get the idea.

Her is to hoping that you continue to use your brain rather than knee jerk reactions, especially the one that got you caught up in a MS is buying Mahalo.com rumor several months ago..:)

Re: TechCrunch’s startups’ web sites suck too

Fred Grott — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:39:26 -0000

Scoble you lost all creditability now..sad..the site you pointed to was somewhat excellent in design execution and what they could convey at this time to the public.

Go pick someone else to kick.. preferably not in high tech or start ups!

Re: “All he talks about is politics!”

Fred Grott — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:49:13 -0000

Hm only interested insmart data Robert?

You know during July I as in the GillMore Gang ustream chat room and was board and the whole gang watched a social experiment unfold where several of us posted rumor son FriendFeed to see who would be very unsmart and take that rumor and not verify it before running with it.

I seem to recall a certain Robert Scoble running full steam with that rumor rather take any time to verify it..

The lesson is not deleting people form your connections..

But verifying information received from connections before relying upon it..

Think back to last Summer where you were reacting on bad data because you refuse to do the work to verfiy it..Pot Calling Kettle Black comes to mind..

Re: Things I’ve learned in China so far

Fred Grott — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:56:51 -0000

I think People fail to realize that the protectionist censorship philosophy has been rampant in China since China was first open to the west in the early 19th Century as a form of protection from invasion.

Thus the counter if to succeed would also have to philosophically have at its core the task of protecting China from perceived invasion..yes we all hate Xenophobia but in CHina its looke don as a Countries other military..

Re: Nokia’s touchiest week

Fred Grott — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:16:07 -0000

Robert,

To data points yo missed:

1. ANdroid G1 Sales reach 1 million in first 2.5 months.

2. Broadcom should have mentioned this, number 1 requested device non US and US as far as emerging markets is a Touchscreen device with Worldwide coverage ie double baseband chips to cover both GSM and CDMA protocols/versions. In other words a world wide CDMa phone has two baseband chips covering W-CDMA, CDMA 450, and etc.

Re: Thanks Mike Arrington for taking us off the rails into Twitter idiot land

Fred Grott — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:10:20 -0000

Robert you forgot something,

Smart people are going to places like Google to get money as in my statup is geting some Google attention and I expect once the reading GPS from javascript on android video is up I expect hat turn into somewhat seed capital from Google..

Its an interesting story involving engineering excellence, clouds, social clouds, and mobile..

Yes, started doing video s of dev progress. probably the very first time a start up has been that transparent.

and Robert I would not call those who are non technical idiots or land o idiots as its somewhat not respecting where the money comes from..you do not see me calling my potential users idiots do YOU ROBERT?

Dev progress of Xpsot vids are at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/memine44

Re: Neil Young sings to his apple

Fred Grott — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:10:57 -0000

Robert,

I had to justify to certain VCs and etc that my web based code with one code base on Android and iPhone had merits.

Robert, polish up your stats skills and re-examinethe data of both Android and iPhone. Android is showing the same basic exponential growth curve of iPhone in all areas.

And Robert if you are going to trout out Neil at least tell a little interenet history that Neil was involved in..he probably still has Kai Krause's Synthesizers..:)

Re: Welcome to Black January: Microsoft, Intel, IBM and others lay off tons

Fred Grott — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:50:41 -0000

Yes Robert I have an idea,

Many potential start ups have changed their tech implementations to require less seed capital.

While at the same time tech firms have laid off full time employees but often still have the need to have certain part time projects competed that require tech skills.

Why not exchange those project needs for an exchange in seed capital and the tech firm exchanging seed capital for project work being completed also gets stock in the potential start up?

You avpoid setting it up as a fund and thus keep it at high tech speed instead forming it as an ad-hoc arrangement or start up new VC social network..

My Biases: I am one of those potential startups that changed my tech implementation to be lower in dev costs and also seeking seed capital currently. My mobile app uses new hybrid mobile dev technology that relies upon web code base to make web app behave like a native mobile app using javascript to access GPS and etc. Yes, iPhone, Android, And Palm Pre stuff. why seed capital? To pay for several months dev so that I can present full demo to Fred Wilson, he already said yes to viewing it..

Re: Why Yahoo’s announcement today won’t get as much hype as Google’s

Fred Grott — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:16:34 -0000

Again Robert you miss the Android connection..even Europe Mobile Industry Pubs have noticed the Android connection..

The Android Connection is this..what is the easiest way to convince say Verizon or AT&T Mobility to deploy Android handsets? Remember the MOS have already heard the T-Mobile results about the data plan usage climbing by 400% with Android.

A compelling GPS consumer application.

By the way, my Xspot Android app will be using the new Google Map features found in Google Latitude..and I am being interviewed by the Mobile Industry press about this..:)

You see Mike Arrington last August was right about Android..

Re: Is the real-time web a threat to Google search?

Fred Grott — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:18:42 -0000

Scoble it snot just the metaqdata but Ui change as well..

what is the most useful Ui change given the first affinity group search occured about 23 months ago at SWSX?

Think about what piece of metadata ranks it ideally for search user in each affinity group..

GPS! Thnink of how importnat this becomes on Mobile :)

Someone is doing it :)

Re: This blog is dead! ORLY?

Fred Grott — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:34:23 -0000

Was that the sound of hell freezing over?

Next you will be predicting the demise of iPhone at Android hands..:)

Welcome back Robert..

Re: Did Adobe snub Apple with FlashPlayer 10, Palm Pre, and Development Fund announcements?

Fred Grott — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:31:22 -0000

Why does Scoble always miss the Android announcements?

Re: Does Palm Pre have a chance against iPhone? IMO: No, but it probably doesn’t matter

Fred Grott — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:54:40 -0000

Again Scoble not doing research..

Have you talked to iPhonedevelopers lately?

Tides changing devlopers are witching to Android from iPhone dev..