Is this the time that 3D sticks? (10)
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We’ve all heard about Second Life. I loved it, but it didn’t “stick” for a whole bunch of reasons. Meaning, it didn’t go mainstream, even though it had a HUGE amount of hype. Why not? Well, it was an island that you had to go into. Problem is, only gamers do that and Second Life wasn’t enough of a game. World of Warcraft came along and took a lot of the gamers away from it. ...
The most hated man in America? (the cable guy) (2)
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Before I started the interview with Kyle McSlarrow, CEO of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, I joked with him that he’s the most hated man in America, because everyone hates their cable company. He took that in stride and we dug in and talked about the state of broadband, how USA compares to Korea and other countries, and all sorts of issues like what cable is becoming and what his view of the technology ...
The FriendFeed for the rest of us (16)
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Yeah, you are probably sick of the FriendFeed hype. Sorry about that. But I do look around to see if there’s any other choices out there. Today I found one. 125,000 comments per day. Heck, FriendFeed doesn’t even have that many people on it yet. Here’s an interview with Topix’ CEO, Chris Tolles, having a conversation with me about the online community business. How is he doing it? He covers his advertising, his marketing, and ...
I don’t feel sorry for Yahoo (28)
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I keep trying to ignore this year’s biggest technology industry news story. I’d rather try out the latest Twitter client (TweetDeck is the one on my screen right now and it’s pretty cool). But through that client came a torrent of news this morning and, indeed, the story is all over the top of TechMeme. Steve Ballmer still wants to buy Yahoo, but only if Yahoo’s current board gets fired first. I don’t care and ...
The “Participation Premium” (50)
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Data: Mike Arrington, founder of TechCrunch, said in an article yesterday that he has 10177 people subscribed to him on FriendFeed, about half of the number of followers he has on Twitter. Data: Allen Stern, founder of Centernetworks, said in an article today that Mike and I are one of the nine people that FriendFeed recommends (we’re right next to each other). Data: Mike Arrington, according to FriendFeed, is my favorite user on that service. ...
Is Microsoft trying to capture photography market? (34)
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This week Thomas Hawk (my favorite “Flickr-famous” photographer) and me will join a bunch of others on Microsoft’s campus up in Redmond, Washington, to attend a pro photography summit that Microsoft is hosting. Why is Microsoft hosting a bunch of professional photographers? Is it to kick off Microsoft’s Pro Photo Tools, Photosynth ( which got me, in 2006, to say it was the demo of the year), or DeepZoom? Maybe. After all, these things are ...
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wilson said:
Scoble has a point... I think there is reason to believe that a user of one thing will more particularly favor the other -- and in the tech world, you have to go for being the platform or tool of choice in which people want to build on top.There is some success if you make great applications, but there is a great degree of success if you are the platform in which people can build great applications.
Waiting in line for iPhones is glorious (16)
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I see that there are people already waiting in line for the Apple 3G iPhone. I’m an expert on waiting in line for Apple products. My son and I waited 30+ hours in line last year to buy the first iPhone (we were first in line at the Apple store in Palo Alto, CA, which is the one closest to Steve Jobs’ home). Personally, the line was more fun than using the product. It’ll always ...
Off of the tech entertainment train (17)
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Today several people noted that I am no longer on Techmeme’s leader board. Funny, lately I’ve been reading TechMeme less and less and caring less and less about whether what I do appears there. It’s why I went to Washington DC. I knew the other geeks like Mike Arrington wouldn’t link to those videos. Why? Well, as Zoe Lofgren said in the conversation we had with her, politicians are boring. I remember on a Gillmor ...
My Fourth of July Present to you: the geeky Congresswoman (8)
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Get in a patriotic mood by listening to our conversation with Zoe Lofgren, the world’s geekiest politician (she’s a Congresswoman from Silicon Valley). This is part of our trip to Washington DC. “We’re boring,” she said, when I noted that Andrew Feinberg chastized me and other tech bloggers for not going to Washington DC more often (Andrew runs the Capitol Valley blog and setup these interviews for me). After that big of joking around we ...
The most hated man in productivity (6)
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…is Tim Ferriss, author of the 4-Hour Workweek. and he’ll be on WorkFastTV this morning at 10 a.m. Pacific Time (in about 30 minutes from the time I’m posting this post — come watch live and talk to us in our live chat room). If you’re a book author you’ll want to visit the after-show party on my Kyte.tv channel because we’ll get Tim to give us tips on how to get to be a ...
Adobe Flash gets a break in war against Silverlight (37)
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Interesting, this is probably why I don’t try to do news reporting anymore. I was briefed a few days ago on the Adobe/Google news, but already it’s being discussed on hundreds of blogs. There is no longer much value in being first. So off I go today to hang out at HP’s Labs to get you some intimate looks into one of the world’s biggest companies. But I digress. Don’t miss this news. It’s significant ...
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Aaron Brazell said:
Good point.
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Razzu said:
Like Ballmer said “Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers!”
Is getting “more traffic” your real goal? (49)
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Who is winning the race to get more traffic? This 14-year-old kid, Fred. He’s gotten MILLIONS of views! 45 million at last count. This is what happens when you try to simply be entertaining. If traffic is your goal, here’s the formula. Do something really stupid that’ll make people laugh. Me? I’ll stick with having a few thousand people passionate about learning more from innovative technologists and other leaders. Why not get into the traffic ...
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junal said:
i would agree with scoble....
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wilson said:
Good thought. For once, Scoble is not just a lot of noise, but also makes sense....Yes, simply getting traffic is not the goal - getting involvement and respect from your audience should be.
Google Reader needs GPC (1)
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Oh, man, is the Google Reader team under attack for its new social networking features. There’s a few ways I could take this. 1. I could call people idiots for not understanding the meaning of the word “public.” 2. I could call the Google Reader team idiots for not putting GPC into its social networking and sharing features. 3. I could call the media idiots for not explaining these features better and for even making ...
Which US Presidential Candidate has the best tech policy? (10)
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Mirror, mirror, on the wall, which US Presidential Candidate has the best tech policy? I went off to Google to answer that question. Here’s the searches I did: McCain tech policy Obama tech policy Well, assuming that they both have a tech policy (I don’t know that for sure yet, but they both should in today’s world) there’s one candidate that has much better SEO than the other. I’ll let you click the links and ...
blah blah blah (27)
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My Tesla post gathered two comments here. 13 comments and 12 “Likes” over on FriendFeed. Let’s just stick a fork in it. Comments are dead. And I won’t even tell you about all the spam I just had to delete. Sigh. Of course you can discuss this over on FriendFeed too.
Why I’m buying a Tesla sedan (30)
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In about two years I’ll be ready for a new car. But here’s why I’m putting down some cash to get a new Tesla Sedan, which was just announced and will be ready in about two years. TechCrunch has the video. Gas prices are probably going up from here, not down. I want to be the first to have the sedan in my neighborhood. When I took a ride in the first Tesla I learned ...
BestBuy gets more productive on WorkFastTV (7)
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Every week we film a live WorkFastTV show at the Revision 3 studios in San Francisco as part of our FastCompanyTV family of shows. It’s where we cover how work is changing thanks to the Internet. Last week we had BestBuy, one of the world’s largest retailers, on the show to tell us how they are using collaborative software to make themselves more productive and better train their employees. That video is now up, some ...
Advertising in casual games (9)
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One thing that came out of last week’s meetings with lots of elected officials is that their attention is on the advertising industry and that means our attention should be on it too. One interview in particular, with Representative Ed Markey (he’s the Chair of the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet), stood out in my mind. He got very passionate about how deeply advertising is tracking people’s behavior and he’s worried about that. So, ...
The Internet is going to the dogs (10)
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Dogster is one of those Web 2.0 businesses that isn’t Web 2.0. For instance, they are making money. I interviewed Dogster.com’s founder, Ted Rheingold, to find out why and to hear how he’ll expand his business. Hint, dogs are just the start.
