DISQUS

2010 to me is a nightmare.
I'll have my data segregated in the iPhone world, Xbox world and facebook's world.
There will be 19 app stores that don't work with each other.
There will be a "connect", "single login" feature from every service out there that only they use.

Give me back my Web 2.0

Don't fall into that trap, Robert :)
If you write the book and it becomes popular then you will be the butt of many jokes in the future.

The other day I was reading a post about Yahoo's problems. The writer was ridiculing Yahoo's lack of seriousness (from job titles, strategies, etc).

I guess everything is fine when the company is doing well.

Since you see discussion on posts going away to other places - does it matter if the topic of discussion starts on a blog or a newsletter?

Joe - with companies like Google, Yahoo, Apple bent on promoting any anti-MS technology - you won't see mass adoption anywhere soon.
But the more you open up flash the more the void for a closed system opens up.

You missed the real reason?

x. I want it to be a topic of conversation when I meet other geeks.

:) iPhones and macbooks are not unique anymore.

Scoble, you mean you don't know about this - http://www.amazon.com/Eye-Fi-Card-Wireless-GB-M... ?
I don't have a solution for video :)

And the $9.99 apps from appstore ? :) This is going to be one heavy investment. Which is why I've decided to hold on to my old iphone for now. I think I can live without the 3G and GPS.
I guess the revenue separation happened because Apple wouldn't share its revenues from the app store with ATT. ATT doesn't seem to have any bargaining power at all in this relationship.

Since you seem to be a big fan of cameras on cellphones, why aren't you a fan of the Sony Ericcson Cybershot series? A year ago they had the best cameras on cellphones (and their photo editing on the phone was cool to). I have lost touch with their lineup since then :)

The iPod line will be phased out now?

What is it about human nature that we cultivate trolls? Obviously Scoble is in it for the traffic. If we hate this post so much, why do we give him so many comments? :)
I guess its the advertisers who should be more intelligent. That's my only hope now.

Phillip Miller, You probably shouldn't be using a smartphone if someone has to explain things to you :)
(assuming the user of a smartphone is supposed to be smart and not the phone).

If this catches on Microsoft will be in the same soup IBM were when Microsoft decided to have a more open OS.
MS will probably adopt Android, put up a cute interface and name it after some animal.

Yodlee does a little more than mint (like accumulating all your bills, etc). I don't use Yodlee very much though because their interface suck.
I ran into another bug with mint this week. My bank sent me a new credit card this week. Now all my credit card transactions are duplicated on mint. Hiding the old card transactions mean that I have to recategorize all my transactions again. Mails to their support has come back with standard "tips to reset password" , "tips to hide accounts" :) They are probably getting more feedback than they can handle.

My suggestion to them was to allow hiding an account between a time period. So hide all transactions on my old card from May01 and hide all transactions on my new card before May01. That way I don't have duplicate transactions and I wouldn't have to re-categorize my old ones either.
Posting here in the hope that someone from mint will read this and get it done. I have started to get dependant on mint now. :)

I am afraid "suckstobems" is right. Microsoft has the ideas. But its Apple and others who get the engineering right. I think its partly because the others start out with their ideas on a smaller scale.
The demo on on10.net showed the remote desktop to be slow and they said that it will be slower on the web interface. Its small things like these which will put off an every day user.

Shouldn't China have the freedom to do whatever it wants?

Many Zune features that I wanted seem to be coming in November :) But then they should have been there from the beginning ;)

Just like when you used to be mini-microsoft ;)

Or instead of a captcha...everyone has to type in "Scoble is God" everytime ;)

The funny thing about the diaper example is that you knew about huggies before you needed diapers. All the focus these days is reaching out to "people who are looking".

Or maybe Google knows something about us that we don't know. I'm sure they know a lot about me, my weaknesses, what links I click and what stuff I buy. And they saw something in Youtube that you and I cannot.

I wish I could change the laws so that my business plan would be profitable.

I wanted to cancel my Rhapsody account last night. It wants me to call someone. Case where I'd rather talk to a machine or click somewhere on a webpage.

Now we'll be able to go to msn.com or live.com or yahoo.com or alltheweb.com or altavista.com for search.
There could be a master search page for the Microhoo search properties. :)

Munir: Scoble works because he does things which are against the norm. When his stuff starts becoming the norm, he moves on to newer ones. But when something doesn't become the norm, he latches on to it (like his gates story).

Supposedly, almost all the apps demoed on stage at Mix was developed in a week. So we have 4 more days to go before the onslaught of silverlight apps.

Scoble's brain is dominant on the right side more than on the left. Sitting in his living room will earn you more credit than facts. A million articles on Techmeme will be truer than the one fact checked article.

But then such matters never have "facts". So the Scobleizer will rule.

The differences between the silicon valley down south and the one up north is diminishing :)