DISQUS

How can you claim to write this responsibly when only one side of the story has been told so far. Instead you come off as a lynch mob follower.

The SF MOMA has not had days to respond. This was posted on a Friday and it's now Sunday night. It is entirely possible that there is not an official response until the beginning of the work week.

My question is what does "licensing full text twitters from users" mean? No one has contacted me to "license" this. Sounds like bull.

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the reflection was not photoshopped. the image was curve adjusted but that was about it. but then again scoble decided his snapshots (nice use of words danny) couldnt compare and deleted my comments again.

boo-ya scoble. so sad for your lack of talent.

Alrighty,

Man up he says. Here we go. How about one with 50+favs and shot with a Canon S400 (a 4MP camera)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/40/99775462_2edc...

Ball is your court, scolby.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibo

Of course, it is possible to change one's opinion. The problem though is you typically come across as your opinion being the only correct one.

I did get a chance to play with a Kindle (not before Tuesday since I have a RealJob) and still stand by my comments.

One other point I would make though is that Kindle does not let my friends borrow a book that I like. Just like I am able to loan a physical book, I should be able to do the same. That would be a decent use of DRM instead of a blanket lockup.

I guess the memories of readers really are that short. Just a few short days ago, you were gushing about the Kindle.

I pointed out that the Kindle was a UI nightmare which you childishly responded with "Have you seen the UI? I don't believe you" which added NOTHING to the conversation.

Go back to your previous link and reread the comments. http://urltea.com/24fp

I specifically pointed out that the Prev and Next buttons were going to be an issue. The Kindle is not a well thought out product. I would LOVE to have a good ereader given the number of books I read. I am nearing 100 books for the year despite having an extremely busy schedule and "full time job" as you say. The fact is that if you enjoy reading, you will make the time. And two books in a week is nothing.

So for a change, admit that you know nothing about what makes a good ereader, lay off the navel gazing techno punditism and let others who actually have a clue weigh in.

I leave you with a quote. "You, Sir, Are an idiot". And should be fired for gross stupidity.

PS. For those saying that books are status symbols, that is just plain idiotic.

Robert,

Just the external UI design alone is bad as seen on the Newsweek cover.

1) The prev and next buttons look like they could be pressed way too easily. In fact, the article makes mention of this.

2) The keyboard is unnecessary. My main goal is to READ a book. Give me a couple buttons to select book/open and bookmark. That's enough. If you want to configure RSS feeds etc., connect it to a keyboard. That's a task that is rarely necessary.

My UI interface suggestion for flipping pages would take a page (pun intended) from the iPhone. Give me a touch sensitive strip, left to right flips forward and right to left flips backwards.

While the idea is promising, the UI and design are HORRIBLE. I read a LOT (70+ books this year) and the ereader on my Treo is still my solution of choice (for now).

Randi: "Basically there are two kinds of media: new media and old media". What the hell is she on? What other kinds of media is there?

If this is the director of biz dev for Facebook, I predict a rollout of Hello Kitty Facebook in the next 6 months. Film at 11. FTW.

Nice try. Watch. =)

Referencing your quote, there are other examples of mashups that are arguably more useful, delightful to use your words. See some of the mashups on Yahoo Pipe's for example or tourb.us's ability to take your last.fm feed and alert you to upcoming music events. Now that's seriously useful.

Therefore, I stand by my statement that this is a mashup (with some glue) and a fairly simple and mildly interesting one.

Stand by for more callouts. I'll be gentler than uncov. =)

The feed in my experience is pretty up to date.

The reason what I called this out is this is not cutting edge work. Photosynth on the other hand is extremely exciting and would be much more game changing in terms of changing photographic interaction.

BTW your comment poster eats line breaks.

You note "it was a creative solution to an interesting problem: how to share a moment captured in a photo, at that moment, with anyone in the world".

The question is does anyone really care?

If you want to see pictures, subscribe to Dave's Flickr RSS feed. QED, EOM. The point is a solution already exists and one that is much less intrusive/spammy.

Twitter merely exists as an alternate alert mechanism in this case. Twitter is interesting when you are able to follow activities that you may have a similar interest in. It is not interesting when you get 15 URLs in a row all pointing to Flickr pix.

http://callingbull.blogspot.com/2007/08/its-jus...