Published by Robert Scoble
I give you a front-row seat on the future. Focusing most of my efforts now on next-generation augmented reality and artificial intelligence, AKA "mixed reality."
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WATCH MY LATEST SPEECHES:
State of VR with Philip Rosedale (done in VR itself, very cool): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zAA1EVGUZU
At GEOINT, June 2017: http://trajectorymagazine.com/glimpse-new-world/
Augmented World Expo, June 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4xHILvLD8E
At Leade.rs, April 2017: https://youtu.be/52_0JshgjXI
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BIO:
Scoble gives you a front-row seat on the future.
Literally. He had the first ride in the first Tesla. Siri was launched in his house. He's been the first to share all sorts of technologies and companies with you, from Flipboard to Pandora to Instagram.
Today he's focusing on mixed reality, AKA "next-generation augmented reality" which will include a new user interface for EVERYTHING in your life (IoT, Smart Cities, driverless cars, robots, drones, etc).
That's based on his view thanks to his past experience as futurist at Rackspace.
Best place to find Scoble? On his Facebook profile at https://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble
He has been a technology blogger since 2000, was one of five people who built Microsoft's Channel 9 video blog/community, worked at Fast Company Magazine running its TV efforts, and has been part of technology media businesses since 1993.
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SPEAKER PITCH:
Apple and Facebook now have revealed their Augmented Reality strategies, which means your business needs one too. Rely on Robert Scoble, the world's top authority on AR, to bring to your conference what businesses should do next.
SPEECH ABSTRACT #1:
TITLE: The Fourth Transformation: What's next in mixed reality (AR and AI) and the future of technology?
Here's an example of this talk at Leade.rs in Paris in April, 2017: https://youtu.be/52_0JshgjXI
Why "the Fourth Transformation?"
Soon we will have phones and glasses that do full on augmented reality. Everything you look at will potentially be augmented. This world is coming in late 2017 with a new iPhone from Apple, amongst other products. Microsoft is betting everything on its HoloLens glasses that do mixed reality and the industry is spending many billions of dollars in R&D and funding new companies like Magic Leap.
This future will be the user interface for IoT, Smart Cities, autonomous cars, robots, drones, and your TV.
This is a big deal and Robert will take you through what mixed reality is and how it will change every business.
Learn more about Robert's speaking style and contact his agent at http://odemanagement.com/robert-scoble/Robert-Scoble.html
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SPEECH ABSTRACT #2:
"The Next Two Clicks of Moore's Law."
Over the next four years, or two clicks of Moore's Law, a ton about our technology world will change. Scoble will bring you the best from his travels visiting R&D labs, startups, and innovators around the world.
He views the world through his rose-colored-mixed-reality glasses, which will be the new user interface for self driving cars, Smart Cities, IoT, and many other things in our world.
He'll send you off with some lessons for companies both large and small.
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SPEECH ABSTRACT #3:
"Personalized Meaning: What is Augmented Reality For?"
As we enter a far more technological world where even cars drive themselves, I predict we'll see a blowback toward the analog, more authentic world.
What role does augmented reality play in both worlds?
Get Scoble's insight into where augmented reality is going, see tons of real-world demos, and understand what he means by 'personalized meaning.'
CONTACT:
If you are looking to contact me, email is best: scobleizer@gmail.com.
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ENDORSEMENTS:
IZEA Top 25 Tech Influencers: https://izea.com/2017/07/07/25-top-tech-influencers/
Time: One of the top 140 Twitterers!
FT: One of the five most influential Twitterers!
Inc. Top 5 on list of Tech Power Players You Need to Know: http://www.inc.com/john-rampton/30-power-players-in-tech-you-need-to-know.html
Next Reality: #4 on top 50 AR influencer list: https://next.reality.news/news/nr50-next-realitys-50-people-watch-augmented-mixed-reality-0177454/
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Do we still get blog posts here or are you transferring your time and energy to FriendFeed and Twitter for good?
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Do we still get blog posts here or are you transferring your time and energy to FriendFeed and Twitter for good?
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I’ll be back, but FriendFeed definitely shows that I’m spending time on a lot of things, not just Twitter.
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I’ll be back, but FriendFeed definitely shows that I’m spending time on a lot of things, not just Twitter.
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Your old friends miss the more substantial posts. Your twitter stuff is pretty content free. Something reflective and thoughtful instead of shallow and reactive is what a blog is good for. It’s a bit sad to see that dying in favor the effortless.
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Your old friends miss the more substantial posts. Your twitter stuff is pretty content free. Something reflective and thoughtful instead of shallow and reactive is what a blog is good for. It’s a bit sad to see that dying in favor the effortless.
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old dog: I’ll be back. I’m just so busy with family, traveling, interviewing, and running FastCompany.tv that doing longer posts gets shoved off. But I have some bigger posts brewing in my head.
In the meantime I’ve been watching what’s going on at TechMeme and am glad I’ve been quiet lately here.
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old dog: I’ll be back. I’m just so busy with family, traveling, interviewing, and running FastCompany.tv that doing longer posts gets shoved off. But I have some bigger posts brewing in my head.
In the meantime I’ve been watching what’s going on at TechMeme and am glad I’ve been quiet lately here.
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Robert, we’re glad you took the FriendFeed plunge, and you took us up on the invitation. I think you will find your voice there, and here. We appreciate your long-form posts (as you noted Saturday) and hope they don’t disappear as well. But thanks for being part of the Web’s fastest-growing community!
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Robert, we’re glad you took the FriendFeed plunge, and you took us up on the invitation. I think you will find your voice there, and here. We appreciate your long-form posts (as you noted Saturday) and hope they don’t disappear as well. But thanks for being part of the Web’s fastest-growing community!
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@Dan and @old dog – The value of FriendFeed is that it’s not an on or off situation, you’ll see all Scoble’s posts be they quick and fleeting or deep and thoughtful it’s all right there to see.
It’s more realistic really; these composed pieces don’t pop out of nowhere they are a compendium of smaller conversations and research that come together.
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@Dan and @old dog – The value of FriendFeed is that it’s not an on or off situation, you’ll see all Scoble’s posts be they quick and fleeting or deep and thoughtful it’s all right there to see.
It’s more realistic really; these composed pieces don’t pop out of nowhere they are a compendium of smaller conversations and research that come together.
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Scoble is a genuis. This may be part of a plot to suck even more people into Friendfeed, further accelerating his leading network.
In all seriousness, Robert is extremely flexible and able to well integrate the new into the older. That, even more than being a voracious early adopeter, is, I believe, a key component of his great success.
PS I found this via Friendfeed. Even though it’s one of the first reads on my feedreader, still saved plenty of time.
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Scoble is a genuis. This may be part of a plot to suck even more people into Friendfeed, further accelerating his leading network.
In all seriousness, Robert is extremely flexible and able to well integrate the new into the older. That, even more than being a voracious early adopeter, is, I believe, a key component of his great success.
PS I found this via Friendfeed. Even though it’s one of the first reads on my feedreader, still saved plenty of time.
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do you think?
http://blog.coda2go.com/managers/?p=9
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do you think?
http://blog.coda2go.com/managers/?p=9
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I canceled my FriendFeed account. From what I could tell, it’s just an aggregator for folks who don’t already use aggregators. Since I (and pretty much all of my friends/associates) already use aggregators, it doesn’t provide value. And it doesn’t force them to see parts of me they don’t want. If they want my photos, they subscribe to my Flickr feed. If they only want blog posts, they subscribe to that. Not everyone wants to know every single little thing that someone has done online.
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I canceled my FriendFeed account. From what I could tell, it’s just an aggregator for folks who don’t already use aggregators. Since I (and pretty much all of my friends/associates) already use aggregators, it doesn’t provide value. And it doesn’t force them to see parts of me they don’t want. If they want my photos, they subscribe to my Flickr feed. If they only want blog posts, they subscribe to that. Not everyone wants to know every single little thing that someone has done online.
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Nothing personal, but Mr. Scoble isn’t a friend in the sense that I want to follow is every physical or virtual movement. Wading through Friendfeed is just exhausting. I’m happy to sit raptly close by, waiting for a well considered nugget. But this happens less frequently now because people are spreading their attention so thin. Take a deep breath some time. Panting leaves one breathless.
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Nothing personal, but Mr. Scoble isn’t a friend in the sense that I want to follow is every physical or virtual movement. Wading through Friendfeed is just exhausting. I’m happy to sit raptly close by, waiting for a well considered nugget. But this happens less frequently now because people are spreading their attention so thin. Take a deep breath some time. Panting leaves one breathless.
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I’m reading Tim Ferriss 4 Hour workweek, what would he say about your twitter/friendfeed always connected habit?
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I love the concept of Friendfeed as a social aggregator and I use it every day. Unfortunately, it doesn’t pick up my social activities very well from other sites and consequently paints a very partial picture of what I do online, despite what I’m actually trying to publicize and syndicate.
This isn’t unusual for these types of applications given the scale of integration required. Facebook apps often have the same problem if they’re pulling activity in from elsewhere.
This kind of VLSI (very large scale integration) of highly granular social apps is going to pose whole new traffic, reliability, and response time issues for Web application creators as Web sites have to use open APIs effectively on a vast scale in near real-time. It’s going to create a whole new discipline to make these types of apps work.
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I love the concept of Friendfeed as a social aggregator and I use it every day. Unfortunately, it doesn’t pick up my social activities very well from other sites and consequently paints a very partial picture of what I do online, despite what I’m actually trying to publicize and syndicate.
This isn’t unusual for these types of applications given the scale of integration required. Facebook apps often have the same problem if they’re pulling activity in from elsewhere.
This kind of VLSI (very large scale integration) of highly granular social apps is going to pose whole new traffic, reliability, and response time issues for Web application creators as Web sites have to use open APIs effectively on a vast scale in near real-time. It’s going to create a whole new discipline to make these types of apps work.
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I’m reading Tim Ferriss 4 Hour workweek, what would he say about your twitter/friendfeed always connected habit?
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This seems to be a trend. It’s good to separate the grain from the chaff.
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This seems to be a trend. It’s good to separate the grain from the chaff.
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I like the fact you make efforts to inform with excellent content ! I am going to officially change MY NAME TO” DIGITAL MOVE’S! ” It makes me a Super Collector of Data ! I am jealous because you have a real brand ! I have to reinvent myself and hope some one Scrapes my Data ! Onward Upward Scobie ! Calacanis will never catch you ! You are the original 🙂 !
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I like the fact you make efforts to inform with excellent content ! I am going to officially change MY NAME TO” DIGITAL MOVE’S! ” It makes me a Super Collector of Data ! I am jealous because you have a real brand ! I have to reinvent myself and hope some one Scrapes my Data ! Onward Upward Scobie ! Calacanis will never catch you ! You are the original 🙂 !
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Social network researchers should take you as an example for their experiments…A report says that generally, a person can have 150 – 160 (average) people maximum in their SN at a given point. If the number goes beyond this, the quality of the relationship decreases. I hope that you are an exceptional and very highest degree node (I think it depends on an individual’s knowledge, profession, and experience). secondly, With help of better tools, one can break those numbers easily. for ex, the tools can have better personalization (to filter/search/sort/translate languages etc).
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Social network researchers should take you as an example for their experiments…A report says that generally, a person can have 150 – 160 (average) people maximum in their SN at a given point. If the number goes beyond this, the quality of the relationship decreases. I hope that you are an exceptional and very highest degree node (I think it depends on an individual’s knowledge, profession, and experience). secondly, With help of better tools, one can break those numbers easily. for ex, the tools can have better personalization (to filter/search/sort/translate languages etc).
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Robert, can you give us a quick post about what you believe to be the reasons we should invest our time into Friend Feed?
I’ll check through the archives, might have missed it if you’ve already done one.
Cheers
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Robert, can you give us a quick post about what you believe to be the reasons we should invest our time into Friend Feed?
I’ll check through the archives, might have missed it if you’ve already done one.
Cheers
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A search for “friendfeed” on this place revealed everything :).
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A search for “friendfeed” on this place revealed everything :).
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FriendFeed is SurfControl blocked for me (twitter isn’t). Guess I’ll just read via Google Reader.
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FriendFeed is SurfControl blocked for me (twitter isn’t). Guess I’ll just read via Google Reader.
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Robert… You did a PodTech piece on us at Personal Democracy Forum last year (much appreciated!). Now we’re up for Steve Case’s public online vote that’s giving seed capital grants to four efforts. We’re in the Top 20 out of 5,000 entrants. Check it out at… http://miyo.casefoundation.org/vote/?event_id=076e502a27402985daa7313c3ca80f
And go vote for Front Porch Forum! 😉
Michael Wood-Lewis
Front Porch Forum
Vote for FPF and make a difference!
http://frontporchforum.com
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Robert… You did a PodTech piece on us at Personal Democracy Forum last year (much appreciated!). Now we’re up for Steve Case’s public online vote that’s giving seed capital grants to four efforts. We’re in the Top 20 out of 5,000 entrants. Check it out at… http://miyo.casefoundation.org/vote/?event_id=076e502a27402985daa7313c3ca80f
And go vote for Front Porch Forum! 😉
Michael Wood-Lewis
Front Porch Forum
Vote for FPF and make a difference!
http://frontporchforum.com
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Good. That will remove some of the useless crap from my feeds. I wish more people will follow your example.
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Good. That will remove some of the useless crap from my feeds. I wish more people will follow your example.
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Seems like a good way to lose readers. It’s too much info.
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Seems like a good way to lose readers. It’s too much info.
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What I’m still trying to figure out is what the big difference between Friendfeed and Plaxo Pulse is. I joined Plaxo after reading many of Scoble’s Posts about it, and the pulse is cool, but what’s the difference?
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What I’m still trying to figure out is what the big difference between Friendfeed and Plaxo Pulse is. I joined Plaxo after reading many of Scoble’s Posts about it, and the pulse is cool, but what’s the difference?
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Hey, less content, more blather. 24/7/365. In a way, it is a great relief.
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Hey, less content, more blather. 24/7/365. In a way, it is a great relief.
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These all or nothing bandwagoning rampages you go on are not only deja-vu, but indeed all over again. I am sure this will continue until whatever catrastrophic reason you find or new service that will then take over everything else. So it goes, from blogging, to Facebook insanity, to insert whatever fad, to twitter to friendfeed… etc. Only to find out blabla limits “sucks” or this or that. Hey watch my grainy live phone videos while I am walking around point x on this great new service that I will use for a few weeks until a different one is SOOOO much better than the last one. Sigh.
All the while meaningful content is lost and is simply replaced with the this is the greatest thing proclamation where the herd is to follow you.
It would be interesting to see what this does to your actual reading stats, not to mention the numbers of people that tire of all of this and drop. However, the actual reading stats, that is what people actually end up reading versus simply seeing it for a second and then say, sigh, another over exhuberient shill for some service that will last only until the next one.
Yes, I know I can stop subscribing, but I can also skip over what seems to have become the 85+ rate of these things. Whereas you used to have content with structured value, it seems to be no longer here. It is almost as if you are wearing your leather jacket and shorts while being pulled by a boat and yes, you have jumped the blogging shark.
The majority of these things are just white noise and I find that sad and not the least bit compelling.
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These all or nothing bandwagoning rampages you go on are not only deja-vu, but indeed all over again. I am sure this will continue until whatever catrastrophic reason you find or new service that will then take over everything else. So it goes, from blogging, to Facebook insanity, to insert whatever fad, to twitter to friendfeed… etc. Only to find out blabla limits “sucks” or this or that. Hey watch my grainy live phone videos while I am walking around point x on this great new service that I will use for a few weeks until a different one is SOOOO much better than the last one. Sigh.
All the while meaningful content is lost and is simply replaced with the this is the greatest thing proclamation where the herd is to follow you.
It would be interesting to see what this does to your actual reading stats, not to mention the numbers of people that tire of all of this and drop. However, the actual reading stats, that is what people actually end up reading versus simply seeing it for a second and then say, sigh, another over exhuberient shill for some service that will last only until the next one.
Yes, I know I can stop subscribing, but I can also skip over what seems to have become the 85+ rate of these things. Whereas you used to have content with structured value, it seems to be no longer here. It is almost as if you are wearing your leather jacket and shorts while being pulled by a boat and yes, you have jumped the blogging shark.
The majority of these things are just white noise and I find that sad and not the least bit compelling.
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comment 23) You will not likely find it here – because whatever is the new one will be overtaken by something new and you are to herd to the next.
Honestly, how anyone decides to take most of their online identity and continuously fractures it, dumps it, restarts it all the while handing it all over to 3rd parties is beyond me… in the continuous fashion crosses the border of absurd.
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comment 23) You will not likely find it here – because whatever is the new one will be overtaken by something new and you are to herd to the next.
Honestly, how anyone decides to take most of their online identity and continuously fractures it, dumps it, restarts it all the while handing it all over to 3rd parties is beyond me… in the continuous fashion crosses the border of absurd.
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comment 16) Again, unlikely. Blindly follow without a fully though through reason, except some minor cool things today that really should not cause hoards to follow-suit… primarily because like the whole bizarre, up and down Facebook is the new religion manner, it makes no sense, because it will just end up that he switches and then does again and again. For most people the cost in time, effort and lost data from whatever they were led to would not likely provide anything more than a waste.
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comment 16) Again, unlikely. Blindly follow without a fully though through reason, except some minor cool things today that really should not cause hoards to follow-suit… primarily because like the whole bizarre, up and down Facebook is the new religion manner, it makes no sense, because it will just end up that he switches and then does again and again. For most people the cost in time, effort and lost data from whatever they were led to would not likely provide anything more than a waste.
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benb: interesting. Facebook is used by 90 million people. Twitter, more than a million now. FriendFeed? Is exploding in use. Kyte? Go to Compete.com and look at the trend line. Qik? Everyweek there’s more people on it.
So, if you watch me, you’ll probably be able to watch the experiences of a very early adopter and see where things are good and where they fail. There’s some value in that.
Even better, if you try them along with me we can discover together.
If you want to be a late adopter, there are lots of other places for you to hang out.
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benb: interesting. Facebook is used by 90 million people. Twitter, more than a million now. FriendFeed? Is exploding in use. Kyte? Go to Compete.com and look at the trend line. Qik? Everyweek there’s more people on it.
So, if you watch me, you’ll probably be able to watch the experiences of a very early adopter and see where things are good and where they fail. There’s some value in that.
Even better, if you try them along with me we can discover together.
If you want to be a late adopter, there are lots of other places for you to hang out.
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Robert,
I understand that, and that is not a bash at you trying out all of these things. Indeed, you stream out a lot of services, many might not see. The thing I think many would like to see is a little more depth again with your blog. A little more explanation about the differences, the why you have decided to charge ahead with the other and so on. Over the years, and I have read your blog for year, you used to give many more thoughtful posts and it seems to have changed into an almost Twitter like blip about oooh I am going to this, oooh I am changing from this and so on.
I am simply hoping, even with all of your new toys, you view your blog as what it has been for many years and that is an open place, where people are not needing to sign up, log in, dedicate time to some company that is shilling something, and get good information as we have in the past.
Those are some key points between using services like Facebook, which certainly have value, as do the many others, but most people do not have the time or the *job* to jump ship every time you do for the simple purpose of trying out something new OR just so they can follow something useful you put there rather than what used to be your more central hub. In other words, you fracture your audience and lose people, while putting up less meaningful content by making all of these leaps… Not in phases, but in all or nothing tangents. Your blog is an open garden and most of these services require entering a new and many times walled one… (leaving out the non-portability of trying move once you are ensconced)
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Robert,
I understand that, and that is not a bash at you trying out all of these things. Indeed, you stream out a lot of services, many might not see. The thing I think many would like to see is a little more depth again with your blog. A little more explanation about the differences, the why you have decided to charge ahead with the other and so on. Over the years, and I have read your blog for year, you used to give many more thoughtful posts and it seems to have changed into an almost Twitter like blip about oooh I am going to this, oooh I am changing from this and so on.
I am simply hoping, even with all of your new toys, you view your blog as what it has been for many years and that is an open place, where people are not needing to sign up, log in, dedicate time to some company that is shilling something, and get good information as we have in the past.
Those are some key points between using services like Facebook, which certainly have value, as do the many others, but most people do not have the time or the *job* to jump ship every time you do for the simple purpose of trying out something new OR just so they can follow something useful you put there rather than what used to be your more central hub. In other words, you fracture your audience and lose people, while putting up less meaningful content by making all of these leaps… Not in phases, but in all or nothing tangents. Your blog is an open garden and most of these services require entering a new and many times walled one… (leaving out the non-portability of trying move once you are ensconced)
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You must add QIK to this. Twitter and QIK addiction is getting to me 😉
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You must add QIK to this. Twitter and QIK addiction is getting to me 😉
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Thanks for this move! I appreciate your move towards more thoughtful posts within the blog. That’s the thing I want to read from you, apart from some of the fastcompany.tv shows.
Blogging about every micro-move, as somebody called it, is NOT the thing I want to see from you personally 😉
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Thanks for this move! I appreciate your move towards more thoughtful posts within the blog. That’s the thing I want to read from you, apart from some of the fastcompany.tv shows.
Blogging about every micro-move, as somebody called it, is NOT the thing I want to see from you personally 😉
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I can’t wait for you to “discover” IRC…
Twitter is NOT a chat client.
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I can’t wait for you to “discover” IRC…
Twitter is NOT a chat client.
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Dan: I was on IRC. It sucks compared to Twitter. Why?
1. No permalinks PER post.
2. No RSS feed.
3. No FriendFeed services.
4. Can’t block assholes effectively.
5. No API so other weird tools like http://www.twittervision.com can be built.
6. Kevin Rose doesn’t use IRC.
But nice try.
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Dan: I was on IRC. It sucks compared to Twitter. Why?
1. No permalinks PER post.
2. No RSS feed.
3. No FriendFeed services.
4. Can’t block assholes effectively.
5. No API so other weird tools like http://www.twittervision.com can be built.
6. Kevin Rose doesn’t use IRC.
But nice try.
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I had commented somewhere about my belief that “smarter” apps like FriendFeed would develop, but with brandable capabilities. You reference the redesign and FF playing a role in that. I, for one, would be interested to learn more.
Guess I can wait and see though, but anxious nonetheless, as I believe what’s to be revealed will in some ways be a glimpse into the future of personal branding. And, that excites me to no end!
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I had commented somewhere about my belief that “smarter” apps like FriendFeed would develop, but with brandable capabilities. You reference the redesign and FF playing a role in that. I, for one, would be interested to learn more.
Guess I can wait and see though, but anxious nonetheless, as I believe what’s to be revealed will in some ways be a glimpse into the future of personal branding. And, that excites me to no end!
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Nothing personal but I do love the concept of FriendFeed.
–W3G
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Nothing personal but I do love the concept of FriendFeed.
–W3G
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